Totally get where you’re coming from—TR-rec is such a comfortable and intuitive way to work, especially coming from gear like the Electribe, TR-8s, and Elektron boxes (I’m also a big fan of my Digitakt II). That said, even though the EP-133 doesn’t have traditional step sequencing, recording on it feels surprisingly fluid. The quantizing really helps—you don’t need perfect timing—and the workflow is more “by feel” than “by grid,” which can actually be pretty freeing and often leads to different creative results.
So, I won’t talk you into it… but if you get your hands on one, you might just end up vibing with it more than you expect.
I just got KO2 for the polyphonic mode and the sequencing is actually immense fun, I don’t finger drum either but it’s super quick to bash things in and you get different results than other methods, which I have covered in other devices. I wouldn’t disregard it on specs alone, it’s got a lot of personality and it’s very different from my other samplers (and I have uh, a few ) and I love it for that. It’s definitely worth trying out, one YT creator compared it to a grown-up Casio SK1 and it’s absolutely more that than anything else imo. It also just naturally grooves in a way that other samplers don’t.
Def worth trying one out if you can, it’s a weird device but a very likable one. Wouldn’t be my only sampler but I also won’t ever sell it.
Found something changed after the update, and it’s VERY annoying thing. Say, you take a group D for your piano sounds, connect your MIDI keyboard controller, and hit the KEYS button for polyphonic play, also switching to SHIFT-> SOUND->KEY, and adjusting an attack and release to your liking. Everything is great, playing some grand or a rhodes or anything else. Then you want to try another sound on the same track, you switch your sound to the next one, and - what?- you’re again playing monophonically because SHIFT->SOUND went back to ONE instead of KEY, and all your adjustments (attack and release) went back to the default. On the OS (or how you call it) v.1.x.x it was permanent, when you swich to the new sound. Now every time you change the sound you must go back through all button clicking to switch the option from ONE to KEY or LEG. Is it a bug, or just intentional change? Anybody to confirm it, or it is just my machine?
TL;DR The tracks now don’t remember their state, defaulting every time you go to the new sound. It was not so before the update.
I don’t remember exactly how it worked in v1, but in v2, I assume it loads the play mode (one, key, leg) set in the WAV file and overwrites the current setting. You can write the settings to the wav using Shift + Sound.
Is it true that it can now run the sequence while sampling through the external input? That was one of the things that held me back from buying the EP-133.
) and I love it for that. It’s definitely worth trying out, one YT creator compared it to a grown-up Casio SK1 and it’s absolutely more that than anything else imo. It also just naturally grooves in a way that other samplers don’t.
