Can’t wait to see the cases people find for KO2. Def don’t trust stuffing it in my bag naked. Currently using a cheap plastic pencil case from the dollar store. Cramping my personal style but will keep the knobs/fader/buttons secure while transporting until I find a sexier option.
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For those of you who seemingly missed out on this, it seems that Soundgas in the UK have some coming into stock next week, so you’ll have time to sit with Santa at Christmas and play 
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Two more days until they send out? I wonder why it does take so long. On the store page i saw a „we send stuff out in 24h“ something like that. If i could i would have cancelled right away after fadergate.
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TE could have called everyone and told them to stop and start packing it better.
I ordered mine the day it came out from TE, with an hour or two. Still no package for US delivery. TE had this to say.
thank you for contacting us!
the K.O. II has been shipping straight away, but due to extremely high demand, it might take a few weeks for our warehouse to fulfill all orders. please bear with us, and thank you for being part of our latest release!
you will receive an email with shipping details once your order is dispatched.
It’s too bad this device doesn’t have trigger outs. When those failed, we could have called it “Gategate”.
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Anything short of TE taking accountability that it is them that needs to “stop and start packing/building it better” won’t address these issues imo.
I get people are disappointed and frustrated. I personally have had to replace 2 units that were actually working fine out of the box only to die later.
However, blaming shipping and distributors is amateur hour. This is a TE (vendor) problem. If it were assembled and packaged properly to begin with, it wouldn’t matter how any retailer, distributor etc shipped it.
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Once the fader issues popped up I wrote immediately to find out the status … now, to be honest, it seems the fun is worth the risk.
There’s always risk with early adoption, this on the other hand, is absurd. The problem is, that people like me still want the box regardless, so TE and others will keep getting away with it …
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FFS… do they ship them from Mars?
I’ve had stuff coming in DAYS from the other side of the globe…
Have you spoken to the store directly to confirm stock will be arriving? I picked up from somewhere in this thread, or might be making it up, that the second batch should be around 8th December.
Only the samples come from Mars.
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Also… I got a reply (before I got the tracking number) saying “It’s shipped”.
I’m no native speaker, but for me in English, SHIPPED means the damn thing is in the truck, or ad literam on a cargo ship.
Checking a box in a dashboard marking an order “Shipped” and creating a courier label is not shipping.
God dammit, I should’ve stuck with Thomann. they initially said 1 week, then they sent them right away. My friend from Italy has 2.
Now I need to ask him nice to send me his second one. I bet it’ll arrive sooner than the one from TE 
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How do folks feel about another thread dedicated to working KO2’s? I’d like to explore getting to know this cool little device, tips and tricks with others who have working units without sifting through the very justifiable complaints (which includes a few of my own).
I certainly think this thread should continue to give voice to those expressing their experiences with faulty ones, shipping, initial impressions, etc.
Just a thought. I’m still fairly new around here so would prefer a more veteran member do the honors if agreeable.
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I tried to start one a couple days ago
but yeah, not sure of the customs and norms around these parts
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They wrote on their newsletter today:
“As far as we know this will be our only shipment before Christmas. Most are already ordered but not yet all of them. Don’t sleep!”
Tried sampling the input through the FX.
You can listen to the input going through the FX while you sample, but
the recording ends up dry.
I don’t “need” this any faster than they are shipping, but it would have been nice to know the time it would take before I had already paid. These things are not that hard to get right😑
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as simple as that
Yay, my tracking started moving. EST: December 6th. Right on St. Nicks day 
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I’m kind of confused about all the people cancelling their orders due to others having broken faders and saying they’re gonna wait… but wait for what? The only evidence that TE ever revised hardware on an existing design is when components ran out for the OG-1 and then they did some tweaks to the pocket operator modular circuitry to help with power issues maybe?
But op-z’s have been bent from the start, double triggers all around. OG-1 i/o board constantly failing, etc.
I mean I get it that logically you would think that if you were running the company you would notice all the fader and speaker failures and revise your parts list… I just have never seen much evidence of this kind of behavior in the past from TE.
So then I was wondering if everyone cancelling their orders before receiving them to see if something is broken- do you all know something about TE that I’m missing?
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