Teenage Engineering EP-133 K.O. II

When steels buys something new that’s of a similar form factor to something he already owns, he often then sells the other device. It’s a good policy (one in, one out), but the joke is just that if he buys the EP-133, the M8 he purchased a few months ago will probably be the first item on the chopping block. It’s not as funny when I explain the joke at length like this, but that is why the m8 (which is a tracker, and trackers read top to bottom) would make an old school sad face, top to bottom (as opposed to an emoji sad face, side to side).

:(

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I for one love a good long-form joke explanation.

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lol. I wasn’t sure who you were replying to. Funny pun.

I have the M8 and I’m usually doing the same thing but the M8 is too good to go.

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No, I totally understand. If I reply to you and it’s the next reply, it doesn’t show the arrow up to your name like it would in the event you were 2 or more replies above. Confusion surrounding the most basic of jokes is the cost of doing business on the internet.

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Anyone getting crash when holding + or - to move through sound list? Locks up then gives error on screen - ERROR SAMPLE_FS 611 1_1_ 1

I can reproduce it consistently although not every time, to try it just press sound then hold + or - key to rapidly scroll through samples.

I am on latest firmware and no samples other than stock samples as I have only just unboxed it, then updated it on the web app.

Edit: Might only be when in part D that the issue occurs.

is the sequencer playing or stopped?

Stopped.

PSA - If anyone wants the manual in pdf format it can be found here

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@darenager Doesn’t crash my unit, holding plus or minus, shuffling through sounds. And also works fine shuffling sounds faster, using shift and + or -.

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tbh i am not installing the latest FW…reading too many issues.

Can you try it when in bank D, it might only be bank D affected?

@darenager Bank D is good here too.

Thanks @oktatracker I just loaded a different project and it no longer happens, but if I go back to project 1 bank D it happens again.

Another thing that WAS puzzling me is some sounds have the mute icon displayed, yet they are not in a mute group and they do not sound in sample list or when assigned to a pad. Figured this out, turning orange encoder turns them up, seems like the amp setting for the samples gets stored at sound level rather than pad level. Weird.

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Would be cool to see a weekly beat battle set up on here kinda like sp-forums in it’s heyday, fitting too for the boxing aesthetic

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https://www.stbbforever.com/

you can do them here

Hi,
I’ve been using it for roughly a month, 10y ableton user, first box and having tons of fun so far !

Happy to see resampling is coming, and hoping this will include the ability to do record loops from input while running (because this is why I first bought the box haha).

I’m currently trying to set it up with a nord drum 3P and also need the ability to chose the input channel for each ko-II pad. This way we could chose if we want the input midi to follow the current bank (keyboard like) or if we want the input midi to keep with the same bank.
The way it’s working currently make it impossible to both play together and loop the incoming midi. Let me know if i’m not clear.

While doing this, I noticed a bug :slight_smile:
If you touch a pad with a sample loaded on ko II, then play midi with keyboard, it behave as if “key” is enabled. If I touch a pad without sample, it behaves as it should (each input midi note plays a separate pad).

Thank you for this fantastic box !

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Is it possible to change the level of each individual sound?
I have this beat going on but the hats are way too high, and I can’t seem to find a way to turn just the hats down (All the drums are on group A).
If I want the some of the sounds to be lower, do I need to sacrifice a whole group to use the fader on that one?

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select pad, push „sound“ use the orange knob to adjust the level. Grey one is individual pitch.

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Thank you! that did the trick!
I only thought the “Sound” key was for browsing samples and couldn’t find it in the guides on the T.E-site, it is probably there somewhere but obviously not for my eyes to see!

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Ay @te-david What kind of compression or magical process is going on the master behind the scenes? Like everything sounds better coming out of this little thing. Why?

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Redundant question but since my EP-133 is about to come in, what are most people doing to make sure their fader doesn’t break?