Hi!
I recently bought a 201 Pocket Piano but I am looking for the synth engines from the original Pocket Piano. Has someone made those available?
Thanks in advance!
Currently there’s no exact emulation of the OGPP on the platform but there are a few existing synth and pattern modules that will get you close.
Red Mode (the default synth engine from the factory) is meant to be like the vibrato mode on the OGPP with a few key differences: It has variable decay while the OG does not, vibrato depth and rate are controlled simultaneously with one knob while the OG used two, and there’s no tuning knob. It also sounds a bit cleaner when compared to my OGPP. Use this with the thru pattern for the OG’s red mode, with 2-Octave Arp for green mode, and with octave cascade for cyan mode.
I’ve also modified some of the stock pattern modes to behave more similarly to the OGPP when connected to MIDI clock.
Basic FM was made by Owen from C&G and is pretty much a dead ringer for the FM mode on the OGPP with an added envelope control. Use it with the thru pattern for the OG’s indigo mode or with pink mode for the OG’s pink mode.
Here’s a pattern mode which gets pretty close to the OG’s yellow mode (harmonic arpeggiator). It’s not exactly the same but it’s the closest thing available right now.
For pipe glide (white mode) I would use the Septavox patch. Its version of pipe glide sounds and behaves very close to the pocket piano, the only differences being more available waveforms and 4 voice polyphony (OG was mono). It also has its own versions of the pocket piano’s Vibrato, 2-Octave Arp, and Octave Cascade modes. This is probably the closest thing to the original pocket piano available right now.
Hope this helps!
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