Teenage Engineering PO-35chat_bubble_outlineFrom real comments

Recording quality is a real trade-off you have to plan around. The PO-35's LPC sample resolution directly affects both sound and available time: 80fps captures crisper, punchier speech but only 8 seconds per button, while dropping to 20fps quadruples recording time at the cost of a mushier, less articulate sound. Commenters compare it to older speech-synth hardware to explain why lower frame rates sound smoothed out.

Hidden performance features add a lot of depth. Beyond basic voice recording, users discovered you can press different pads during playback to create chord progressions, and hold the pattern key while selecting patterns to program an entire song sequence. These tricks weren't obvious from the manual, and multiple commenters describe stumbling onto them after weeks of ownership, boosting their enjoyment of the device.

There's a learning curve, but owners land on the enthusiastic side. New buyers describe the PO-35 as complicated at first, recommending tutorials to get comfortable. Despite that, one person with two units calls it the coolest vocal FX machine they've owned and praises its drum machine, while others say a good demo video increased their appreciation of a unit they already loved, and some are eyeing DAWless vocal use.