Why do you want to retire your MPC 1000? As for my likings sampling and chopping on the EP-133 is a bid fiddly, I am thinking of getting a 1000 for better sampling workflow 
First rule of beat club: ānever retire 1Kā 
I had to swap the display on mine as the yellowgreenish was killing my brain, but since then - MPC is back as main unit in my setup - and I got few more modern samplers around as well - with JJ OS2XL 3.83, this thing is (still) a killer machine and I know for me itāll be the last piece of hardware to sell.
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I know. Mine is still rocking as well. Works with usb c battery.
I have three screens. One like yours, the inverted one and the green one. But honestly I always default to the green one.
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bcs the punch in fx in po33 (which you could fucking record!!) seriously one upped the MPC ā¦ i thought in this iteration everything would be complete and we would have the dream machine that would finally succeed mpc 1000, butā¦ disappointment.
also i dont like the online sample toolā¦ its just shackles all aroundā¦ i really had high hopes for this ep133ā¦
also no x0x inputā¦
wow, thats a nice colored mpcā¦ mine is black
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x0x input & recordable punch fx would have sold me on the ep133. 
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Mine is black as well - just got this skin, painted few buttons and side panels: Akai MPC 1000 Classic 2000 / XL Style Faceplate Skin ( Cream Color )
In the future I will send it to Audio Customs for a pro paint job in classic Akai colours.
The quality of their restoration is mind blowing: https://audiocustom.pl/
The 1000 for me has the perfect size / power ratio and as it was my first sampler and for long time only piece of hardware, gets me from a to b fastest. For ages Iāve been using it with free jj os and got the full version recently - like getting a new machine. Kudos to JJ - he made it a modern classic.
*sorry for derail - back to EP now!
āx0x input & recordable punch fxā in firmware updates I trust - the original op-1 got USB audio in 2021 - 10 years after initial release. Also - looking at JJ OS - in hackers I trust ;))
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plus resampling naturally i suppose what the fuck is a sampler without resampling, especially this limited in memory in year fucking 2024
i had an mpc live, bought and sold two digitakts (was almost going for a third one after timestretching update, which is basically the reason i bought ep133), one sp606 and really still mpc 1000 is the bestā¦ its industrial.
I guess best answer I can come up with is: āpart of wider ecosystems of gadgets they would like to sell to you like TX-6 or TP-7 or OP-1 so you can use it as a āresampler/recorderāā, but I might just be blaming capitalism for all evil again here Thankfully the demand from community is so big and the thing is so popular that I think itās coming this year 
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So after returning from a messy night in the local Pub, apparently I thought it was a good idea to order one of these from Junoā¦. Should be here on Monday I guess. Iāve no other hardware now days, so will be interesting to see if this sticks.
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I literally have to take mine to work to upload samples, my super old Windows7 laptop just wonāt pick it up in any browser.
I also encountered kind of ground loop humming when powering the EP 133 from usb-c power adapter and recording from a tascam dr-40 field recorder. had no issue when recording from my main audio interface.
Unfortunately I have no idea how to fix this besides what was already mentioned.
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Yeup. Ground loop for sure.
Hate this little bugger. It accounts for roughly 10% of my income, tho. Audio cleaning is an art if its own.
Iām gonna write up a mail to TE, see if they have any idea.
Iām pretty sure the Sync modes can be of use here, although TEās manual is of no help at all and I canāt seem to find a detail tutorial on this particular need.
I hope someone in here can point us out to an usable way of ext sync the EP133.
Iām growing a bit afraid that the ultimate answer is TEās favorite one : Ā« play in time when recording audio Ā»
But again. Pretty sure the answer lies into the Sync mode. At least with the op1f.
Weird that I can sync POs in a matter of second and have no luck with the EP. I want to believe Iām missing something.
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Thanks for pointing this one out!
Iām gonna refer this model to my friend.
Iām still gonna try to figure this PO Sync Mode - most Reddit posts say itās doable with the op1f.
But thanks a lot. Much appreciated !
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Good luck. Years ago on original OP-1 I got one of those isolators to deal with this kind of noise, and posted about it on OP forums.
Also, a few years ago TE started selling their own version.
https://teenage.engineering/store/ground-loop-noise-isolator/
But as I said in the other thread, they are all essentially the same, just two small isolation transformers inside, so you donāt need the TE one specifically, the one I linked to in the other thread is very well built and they also do a cable version (male-iso-male) which can be handy as it means carrying less stuff.
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Iām sure you know this already but there is a menu in system to switch sync from in or out. Is that what you mean?
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I tried to transfer some longer (probably 5/6 seconds) samples last night, and Iām not certain but I believe they have been truncated shorter by the KO - has anybody else experienced this?
Yeup.
But thanks for pointing that out.
I tried the 8/16/24 modes on the EP and tried to match a corresponding mode on the op1f - yet to no success.
I tried getting signal from the ring, as suggested elsewhere. Tried a lot of combos. Yet, nothing.
Iām still scouting the net trying to find a full tutorial but canāt seem to find one!
Yes I figured, I wish you luck!!
I find it infuriating that this thing is one of the cheapest things they sell that is an instrument yet is had by far the longest serviceable lifeā¦
Why??? It is crazy that for instance the field series might be built better but they have all custom parts that are almost impossible to getā¦ you might wait a year or so for a replacement screen or buttons, the opz had replacement battery but they are almost never made and sell out immediatelyā¦ unless you are ok waiting months on a āpossibleā repair and send it to the service center, you are basically out of luck, nomatter what they costā¦ yet this $300 thing is dead simple to repair anything on it and made pretty wellā¦ why canāt they make expensive stuff like this? I find it very frustratingā¦ plus it seems they plan on continuing this trend for the future tooā¦ it is ridiculous. Why donāt they think we care about our gear lasting past a basic warranty?
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