The Library

The Library keeps your work. The Studio keeps one working copy between launches and overwrites it as you go, so anything you want to keep belongs here. It holds four kinds of item:

a kit when you only want the 16 sounds,
a sound when you want just one,
a pattern when you only want the beat,
a backup when you want the whole PO-32: all its sounds, patterns and timing in one item.

Everything is stored on your computer or phone.

Save Your Work

From the Studio: use Save to Library and choose the sound, the kit, the current pattern or a backup.
From the Library: select Save Current, type a Name if you like, then choose Save Kit, Save Sound, Save Pattern or Save Backup.

Add From a File

Add PO-32 WAV to Library…, in the Library’s More menu, decodes a transfer or backup recording straight into the Library, without touching the Studio. If a backup recording is missing some sounds, the Library fills them with defaults. To load a recording into the Studio instead, use Backup and Restore.

Find Things

Search by name or tag.
Choose All, Kits, Sounds, Patterns or Backups.
Under Filters, pick one or more Tags to show items with all of them, or switch on Favourites Only to show only the items you’ve starred. Clear Filters resets them.
Sort by Name or Saved (newest first to start with). On a phone, the sort menu has Newest First, Oldest First, Name A to Z and Name Z to A. The Library remembers your choice.

Audition, Load and Send

Audition plays a sound, or runs through all 16 sounds of a kit or backup. Patterns can’t be auditioned here.
Load in Studio opens the item in the Studio. A backup replaces the kit, all patterns, the chain, tempo and swing. A kit replaces the 16 sounds. A sound goes into the sound you’ve picked in the Studio. A pattern goes into the current pattern number. You can undo any of these in the Studio.

Each item’s menu also has:

Rename and Edit Tags.
Duplicate, which makes a copy with “copy” on the end of the name.
Send to PO-32… (for a sound, Send to Sound and the number of the sound selected in the Studio), which opens Transfer with the item ready. Nothing plays until you press Play Transfer there.
Export Transfer WAV, which saves that transfer as a WAV (on desktop, to your Downloads folder).
Export for Microtonic… (kits and backups), which saves the sounds as two Microtonic presets: see Microtonic Import and Export.
Delete (Delete Local Backup for a backup), which moves the item to the Recycle Bin. An Undo button appears for a few seconds, and after that you can still restore it for 30 days.

Patterns are sent from Transfer & Import: Sending to the PO-32.

Recycle Bin

Deleting from the Library isn’t final. Deleted sounds, kits, patterns and backups wait in the Recycle Bin for 30 days.

Open it from the Library’s More menu: Recycle Bin. Each item shows when it expires.
Select Restore to put an item back in the Library exactly as it was.
Pin keeps an item until you unpin it. Delete Permanently removes one now, and Empty Bin removes everything that isn’t pinned.
After 30 days, an item that isn’t pinned is removed for good the next time you open the app.

Restoring a backup to the PO-32 hasn’t been tested on hardware yet: Backup and Restore explains.

On a phone, items show as cards: see On Your Phone.