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       Stardate: 20221030.2246
       Location: The Lab
       Input Device: Dell 7202
       Audio: Down on the Corner, CCR cover
       Visual: Usual lab clutter
       Emotional: done.
       
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       I have just finished my rendition of "Down on the Corner" by CCR.
       This was done on 3 Pocket Operators by Teenage Engineering.[1]  
       
       Pocket Operators are these small, portable, battery-powered 
       synthesizers about the size of a calculator.  You can make some 
       fun sounds with them.  The ones I used for this song were the PO-12, 
       PO-14, and PO-16 (rhythm, sub, and factory, all gen 1.) [2]
       
       The song came out very cheesy and makes me laugh.  I recorded it but
       it sounds a bit rough.  I don't plan on spending any more time on it.
       
       This exercise helped me learn about the quirks and limitations, as
       well as the ideas and creativity that can manifest with the Pocket 
       Operators.  Even though this is someone else's song, just listening
       to the different parts, trying to break it down, and then piece it
       back together in some way on a Pocket Operator gave me much to tinker
       with.  I used to do that quite a bit for the guitar, especially
       before the Internet and accessibility to online tablature.
       
       Like many of my reverse-engineered "exploration" projects, I learn 
       quite a bit by taking things apart, but sometimes I end up with extra
       parts and screws when putting the pieces back together.  That's kinda
       what this rendition felt like.  For those interested, I have added
       this piece to the songs in my home in gopherspace. [3]
       
  HTML [1] Pocket Operators
   IMG [2] Pocket Operators (pic)
   DIR [3] xiled's explorations in tunage by xiled and other people
  HTML HTML-ized version of the phost for the gopher-impaired.
       
       20221107_UPDATE: Gopher-ized the links.
       20221109_UPDATE: HTML-ized the phost.
       
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