The Studio
The Studio is the main workspace. It brings together the transport, the pattern sequencer, the device map and the voice editor so you can design a sound and hear it in a beat straight away.
The transport
Section titled “The transport”Along the top you have the transport controls:
- Play starts and stops the sequencer.
- Preview auditions the current voice on its own.
- Bounce renders a pattern chain down.
- Save to library saves the current voice, kit, pattern or backup. See Library.
Set the bpm (tempo), swing and preview velocity from the controls on the right.
The voice editor
Section titled “The voice editor”Each of the PO-32’s sounds is a voice with 21 parameters. Select a voice, then shape it with the grouped controls:
- Oscillator: waveform (sine, triangle, saw), frequency and the amplitude envelope.
- Noise: the noise source with its own filter (low-pass, band-pass, high-pass), cutoff, resonance and envelope.
- Mixing: the balance between the oscillator and the noise, plus distortion and EQ.
- Velocity: how the oscillator, noise and modulation respond to how hard a step is hit.
The A/B morph
Section titled “The A/B morph”Every voice has two endpoints, A and B. Drag the morph fader to pick which side you are editing, or to blend between the two. This is the PO-32’s signature drum-voice interaction: one pad can move smoothly between two sounds.
The kit and the device map
Section titled “The kit and the device map”A kit is 16 voices. The device map on the right lays them out as 16 pads in the PO-32’s four-column arrangement, so the on-screen layout matches the hardware.
Click a pad to arm and edit that voice. You can copy, paste, randomise and mutate voices, with per-parameter locks so you can hold the parts you like while you shuffle the rest.
The sequencer
Section titled “The sequencer”The sequencer is a 16-step grid across four lanes, one lane per monophonic voice, the way the PO-32 actually plays. For each step you can set:
- the voice that triggers,
- an accent,
- a fill rate,
- a morph position.
Set tempo and swing from the transport, chain patterns into a longer arrangement, and use Bounce to render a chain down. Undo and redo work across the Studio.
Live editing
Section titled “Live editing”Sound edits apply live while the transport is playing, so you can tweak a voice and hear the change as the pattern runs.
Remember that previews use the libpo32 synth, so they are close but not bit-identical with the hardware. What matters is that anything you transfer plays through the PO-32’s own engine and sounds correct on the device.