Teenage Engineering PO-12 Rhythm Programmable Rhythm Synthesizer

It’s genuinely smaller than a deck of cards and I’ve thrown it into a jacket pocket before every practice session since it arrived. The punch-in effects let me mangle a beat live in a way that feels way more fun than poking at a laptop. I wasn’t expecting the battery to last this long across weeks o

The parameter locks are a game changer for me, I just tweak a single beat and the whole pattern evolves in a way I didn't expect. It's so small I've got it clipped to my bag loop and can sketch a drum groove on the bus between stops. Punch-in effects make live jamming feel properly alive instead of