you know it! a podcast i listen to brought “hes heating up” back into my brain
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Boom shaka-laka indeed. Looks fun! Nice vid, probably get a lot of views since the device is still so new, lots of people looking for content I’m sure.
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i love getting me some online numbers
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mmm viewed?
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When asked about the troubles with the fader, TE responded with “Oops!”.
In other news, fader recalls persist across the entire Earth, with climate scientists claiming, “Oops!”.
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The lack of grid mode is crazy to me, makes no sense… especially considering how perfectly laid out the buttons are for it… I have to think this is something is coming in a firmware update.
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Well sure, it doesn’t make sense to you because you love grids. Imagine someone who hates grids. This is definitely the product for them.
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and another tune from tonight. first time using a loop that i made on the 101, i think using loops is pretty easy on this since you can just set the pattern length to the same amount of bars as the loop. havent tried time stretching yet. i have found that working in 8 bar scenes is working well for me. im a fan of the distortion fx too, every track is ran through the distortion on this one
and my rechargeable energizers ran out of juice, after about three days of moderate use. i would just leave it turned on on the couch and do other things too. when it died it looked like it was gasping for breath and then turned off, but none of my progress was lost when i booted back up with usb power
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Probably not as the sequencer has the ability to switch between diffrrent grid divisions. You can go from 8 triplets to 32nd to 16 triplets in a single bar. On top of that each pattern can have a different meter. It would mess up the lay-out of the 16th note grid. It’s a conscious decision from TE. Adding pad-grid sequencing would actually make no sense at all. You might not like it, but this type of sequencer is immensely powerful
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I’ve got a mutant brain coming so I can try and sequence my modular with this. 3 voices in the rack plus the samples in the TE.
Cant wait to try on Wednesday.
This may be obvious to some owners but this thing is way deeper and more performative than it first appears. An example:
Ok there’s 9 projects (songs)
Each project has 9 scenes
I initially thought okay, I can make a song with 9 different scenes (parts)
But!
Scenes are actually more like versions/revisions/variations/revert points/parts on an Octatrack.
It’s patterns that are powerful!
Each scene can have 99 patterns on each A/B/C/D lane (tracks or band members as the manual refers to them)
But!
Let’s say you have:
A- Drums
B- Bass
C- Lead
D- Drones
You can then hold, for example, tracks A and C plus the + and - buttons to switch just those instrument’s patterns in real time creating new patterns from different patterns of each instrument, even bouncing between them. So instead of pattern 1 traditionally being A1/B1/C1/D1 you can instead have A2/B1/C47/D1 (or any combo of previously made patterns) creating infinite variation in real time. And that’s before you even get into Scenes: different revisions of collections of patterns and automation and performances. It’s really like Burger King saying there’s a billion ways to build a whopper with only a handful of ingredients.
On top of that, you can do some punch in FX, while using a filter or some delay on any of those tracks with the fader and that automation is recorded. Add some note repeat, time signatures per pattern, some mute automation with the fader to cut out a 1/4 bar of just the track A drums, play with the pitch and reverb of a run you tapped in with keys mode on Track C, etc. Plus you can noodle over the playing pattern with only polyphony being a consideration. it’s insane and deceivingly powerful.
The only limitations are the number of fingers you can contort and this sampler is so fast to work with. You never feel like you’re hitting “yes, confirm, save, are you sure?” if that makes sense.
Also, haven’t dived into this yet, but it’s probably very good at midi sequencing.
This is a wild jam box. I’m running it through my 404 to be able to capture performances (punch in FX aren’t recorded on the KO II unlike fader and knob automations) and to add more FX. Having gobs of fun and already considering grabbing a 2nd one. Until you’ve played with one and gelled with it, it’s easy to write it off as a toy with only 64MB.
It sounds great, it’s fun, powerful, and it’s a TE product for $300. This thing is going to be everywhere once people wrap their head around it.
I wish the QA was better, my keys are still sticking on the frame which really takes away from the calculator on acid vibes.
I would also love two way audio over usb like the OP-1F or 404 mk II. PLEASE THIS.
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You mastered this device from your first clip 
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Ordered from rubadub a few minutes after launch when their website said it would ship the next day iirc. Nothing but the order confirmation email since, no dispatch or device many days later. Won’t be doing that with rubadub again.
This is a great breakdown for others getting into the device 
I am actually a fan of the grouping. IDK why but from the review videos I had thought it was max 12 one shots loaded at once loaded across 4 groups. When you realize its up to 64 samples at once on demand you really understand there is a lot of power here in the performance aspect.
My only gripe with the device so far is that I am not the biggest fan of the reverb. The reason I don’t like it is that the algorithms on the deep end change the sound too much. It feels like a reverb that replaces the overall sound rather than adding to it. Not sure if others feel the same way.
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There’s no such option on this forum…
It’s like Ableton’s Session View!
Yeah, arranging clips for sure! It’s revelatory for me.
this goes unbelievably hard, nice work on this one!
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I did the same - ordered about 30 mins after reveal. I ended up emailing them on Friday to check if I actually made it into the first pre-order batch, apparently i did they, but I sounded like they were waiting for the shipment to arrive from TE. Fingers crossed they get shipped out Monday but who knows.
There are many variables to the sort of decision that TE, or any company like them, could make in a situation, like seems to be playing out.
Assuming a failure rate north of 10% – i don’t know so hopefully it is much less than that – and you are still gathering data as to a direct cause, you might consider pausing shipping product to customers temporarily, while you evaluate the situation, and optionally opening and testing systems before you send them. They can’t do that with systems in retailers possession, but they could ask them to pause as well. If the failure rate is high enough they definitely will be gettring reactions from their retailers as well.
Impossible for us to judge the failure rate from the information we have, so hopefully it is quute low, and this all is not an issue.
Trying to think as a business person would, or if this was presented to you in business school.
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