You can’t manually edit each individual slice so that one slice is longer than another. Your slices can’t overlap. Things like that.
Did the email say stock for your order or just stock in general?
When I ordered it said stock due in 24th November.
I then checked about half hr later and it said stock due 8th December so if I’m not mistaken we’ll be in line to recieve it when whatever date was showing at the time of order.
I actually rang them today to see when it’s due in and he said first batch is in tomorrow so fingers crossed we’re getting one of them 
It was def 24th Nov as I paid for Saturday delivery as I’m not in tomorrow. Grr.
I also ordered yesterday evening, more than 24h ago from TE. Got order confirmation but no shipping. But it did say 5-7 days estimated.
Fingers crossed they ship it tomorrow because I go on vacation hmnext Thursday:(
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Alright I think I’ve decided that I don’t really need one of these and I’m going to hold off for the alleged other upcoming (hopefully synth focused) devices in this series.
An Arcade one would be doooope
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Okay no you can’t overlap but you can reuse the same sample, there’s always workaround
Can anyone confirm if you can have different sample assignments per pattern?
https://static.roland.com/manuals/sp-404mk2_reference_v300/eng/62590000.html?&k=chromatic
SP 404 mk2 It does legato-portamento
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No slots are shared
These are now offcially SOLD OUT in the TE webshop
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I think parameter locking in the sequencer is a good work around. I mentioned it in my original post. My point was only that the Circuit Rhythm is more capable in this respect.
What I meant about “Multitimbral” on the Lofi-12 is that it’s really a proper, full-on mutltitimbral system that it has, and since bwo asked about it I’ll explain it this way …
On the Lofi-12, once you sample something, you can set the Start, End and even Loop points of the sample. You can then play that sample chromatically and polyphonically right across your MIDI keyboard. You can assign Envelopes and LFO to the sample and even get to decide how much the LFO will effect Amp, Pitch and Filter independently. All of this is held in a single multitimbral part (and there are multiple parts). So you can have a different sound playing on each multitimbral part and can even have each part on the same MIDI channel if you wanted. This means you can play chromatically, polyphonically and even layered, and all at the same time!
You’re limited by the amount of polyphony which is shared between all of the multitimbral parts, but the point is you still have enough to play polyphonic sustained chords on one part and still be left with multiple notes of polyphony for bass or rhythm parts (because it also has paramater lock-style sample switching (per part). It’s also important to remember that all of this stuff can also be resampled, so you get to free it all up again and carry-on building your song. This is why I won’t buy a K.O. II without resampling, and why out of these three, the Lofi-12 is an easy win if I had to chose a single box to create a complete, polished track while out on a wild camp. In other words the Lofi-12 is definitely the “Desert Island” candidate of the three (at least at the moment but that could change with an update the the K.O. II).
Doug’s post seems to indicate that he’s considering it in a sound module sort of way too, and if he buys it for that then he won’t be disappointed because out of the three, the Lofi-12 is definitely the winner in that respect.
For sure, they each have very different benefits and pitfalls, but when it comes to sampling production boxes, never underestimate the power and importance of resampling.
Sure, the Lofi-12 has a limited sample time per sample, but because it can resample complete multitimbral patterns into single samples, you can build-up complete songs of resampled patterns and the sample time becomes irrelevant really.
This is exactly the reason I’d love to see sample looping and resampling on the K.O. II. (and why I won’t be buying one unless they add it). It does look seriously pretty, but without resampling it’s really just a pretty and fun little scratch pad.
Add resampling though, and it becomes a much more capable single-box production solution.
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Super stoked for this one, the workflow looks amazing and the device just seems fun to use. I have a Blackbox so can record performances and other synths there, they should pair well I hope.
Only feature I’d really wish for is a grid-style record view, like the Pocket Operators, where you could e.g. easily add a kick drum on steps 1, 5, 9 and 13. It’d be a bit more convoluted with multiple pages of course, but it’d still be nice.
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I mostly agree with you but I have an OP-1F and still wanted one of these right away because it just looks fun!
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Watched some more reviews and demos, and my GAS has evaporated as fast as it developed. Watching the guy in the Andertons video, it all looked pretty fiddly to use in practice. It didn’t help that the genre/style of music in every demo just wasn’t for me.
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Yeah, I honestly would have pulled the trigger yesterday if I had an extra 300 dollars to throw around. But now I’m kind of hung up on the fact that it can’t resample or play samples in reverse. So I’m glad I didn’t.
Also to add to your point, I hope they add grid based note entry. I think that jumping between steps on the arrow keys is really handy for editing multiple pads and notes all at once. But if I’m writing a pattern, I’d prefer to just put down notes on the grid for each part. And I mean, that’s how the original worked so it would make sense to carry over that aspect of the workflow.
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Unfortunately, the manual is wrong. I thought I was getting portamento when I bought it because of what it says in the manual.
It does indeed do legato, but not portamento. Legato affects amplitude, portamento/glide affects pitch.
My hope is that Roland got ahead of themselves and accidentally added it to the manual, and will be included in a future update.
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Ordered through my vendor …hope they do not f…k up
This thing is selling like hotcakes. Solid release from TE, with the holiday timing, and the lack of a prolonged hype campaign. Other companies take note, especially regarding the latter.
Still available at B&H Photo with free 2 day shipping no less, and you can get a USB-C cable if needed. I’ve ordered a few music devices from them before, and they are more than reliable.
edit: B&H Photo are an authorized Teenage Engineering dealer too, as shown in the upper right corner and on TE’s site.
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