I like that he talked about how the limitations can be there to encourage one to finish the track instead of working on a plethora of other unfinished tracks. Can’t wait for mine to get here.
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So what’s the best way to record a project from the K.O. II directly into Logic or even Garageband? My new iMac has no audio input jack. I want to play a project in while using effects live so I can capture the performance in Logic for further production. Do I need to go through an audio interface (like my Scarlett 2i2) or is there another way to do it? Haven’t had time to experiment with this yet so I’d value some opinions here. Thanks in advance!
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Great interview.
Cool to get a glimpse into the thought process. Deciding against the lcd. Power efficiency. Avoiding menu diving. Great choices imo.
I liked the analogy between feature requests and Homer’s Simpsons car lol
Shout out David 
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Your iMac should be able to receive audio through the headphone jack! It’s a TRRS configuration. You just need the right cable
But using your audio interface will sound better. Get what is called an insert cable, which splits a stereo signal into two mono signals, and plug them into the two inputs on the Scarlett. You can use a headphone adapter or just get a 1/8” TRS to dual mono 1/4” cable
Like this here jabronie
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There has been some speculation about “crazy power saving features” in this thread that were hinted at in another interview. I guess we have our answer now. It’s great to know that they seem to have quite some CPU power left to implement further functions, if the KOII is currently only running on one of two CPU cores.
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Dual core would surely open the door to live looping/capturing samples when the KO is playing
Also expanding on existing things - fader FX per group updated to fader FX per sample/pad
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What I desperately need:
• Threshold sampling
• Sound shaping per pad (filter, filter env, etc)
• Resampling
• Automation per pad not group. Basically all those nice params from above the pads, to be applicable per pad.
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My KOll is still to be delivered, so I don’t know if I’m in the place to make any wishes of what I’d like to be added. However, if the KOII gets resampling, I think I wouldn’t need all the sound shaping and automation per pad functions. I assume it would quickly get confusing to know what you’re doing if this would be the case, which pad is currently active etc., and I guess it would lead to lots of unwanted accidental changes. I’d rather have more than one send FX active at a time, ideally one send FX per group. And of course, recordable punch-in FX.
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regarding you second point, that would be nice, but you are asking 48 filters, envelopes, etc. instead of 4, that might be not possible.
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i want my KO2 to tell me my beats sound sick and if they could update it to pat me on the back too, that would be a game changer
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Just noticed today that, unlike the OP1F, the KO2 won’t power my MPD218. Is this a hardware limitation?
I’d love to have my MacBook Air have a keyboard like this.
KO2 is not a USB-MIDI host, so it cannot be connected to MIDI controllers.
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Noted!
Big up to @SonWu for his excellent KO2 tutorial series. Good job Son! 
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With the fact they’re not even using the second core, how likely would it be to get octatrack like fader assignation for performance tricks? Like fading one scene into another for example or one loop into a scene?
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I have a feeling @te-david is regretting making that statement about dual cores already :))
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Seems like he’s been pretty transparent and straightforward about wanting to add features to the ep-133 ko II while keeping the overall workflow simple and easy to access for new producers/synth players/beatmaekrs.
I think having these kind of performance tricks on such a cheap device would be super cool, you have a fader, might aswell use it to its full potential 
I must say I have been thinking about buying the ep-133 for two whole months but the interview with David convinced me to finally order it, it feels refreshing to have this kind of open talk on a product. Something I have not seen Elektron (a similar sized company) do in a long long time…
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when asked about other devices in the series, he did hinted that not only the buttons & knobs will be different, but from my understanding… different shape.
So… my crazy brain started spinning cogs…
Imagine 2 EP devices, with a small “mixer” between them held together by lego pins 
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No he actually said same form factor (so EP-shaped) but different layouts/buttons, features …
He also said to expect at least 5 more years for the EP instruments… Which makes me believe than with 1 new EP release per year we will get 6 total…
Considering they released in “trios” I would expect the next ones to be po-35 or po-32 based but maybe they’ll do each one of the other trios… we will see.
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