Could you try close mic’ing? Tighter rubber band? Updating firmware?
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Firmware up to date. I’m pretty close to it. Zero effects on. Heavy strumming seems to work. Finger picking sounds like the 404 stutter effect!
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I don’t have an acoustic, but just tried with speaking. For me, I need to be really close to the mic for it to pick up the signal. If I hold it back it either doesn’t pick anything up at all or comes in and out, depending on the distance. I guess I have only used it for vocals so far. Also, I find it best set to guitar not mic with gain trim pot all the way up.
Maybe you need to boost the signal? Could you run it through your Colour Box into the front of the MKII for more gain? Also there is a gain trim on the Ting.
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Still waiting on more update love for the 1320 
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You cranked up the sensitivity up on the mic via the x shaped red circle under tue bottom grill?
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Did that and it sounds great, I run everything through the CB! I was hoping to use it without the need to power up a pedal. No big deal though.
Yes, no difference.
Yeah, bummer. It seems to have plenty of juice with the Riddim and also with my MicroKorg MK2. I didn’t realize the 404MKII had such low input gain.
(I really want to hear the Ting through the CB though, that sounds like an awesome combo!)
@Kegeratorz Did you just get the Ting or did you get the Riddim as well?
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It will have been tuned to work as a close vocal mic so probably actively tries to mitigate ambient/noise/distant sounds.
Sounds a bit like there might be a ramped noise gate or maybe even something on software that’s more sophisticated (a bit like how video calls try to cut out ambient noise).
If it worked better with the colour box and the issue is more gain related then you could use an amp sim on the 404 input (these are only available as an input FX) - not sure if it’s possible to get a clean boost this way but you can certainly get plenty of drive.
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I think you’re right about the close mic and ramped noise gate. Like I said above, it sounds like a stutter effect when finger picking and drops in between notes.
I should clarify on the CB, it didn’t fix the issue, it just sounded awesome! As does most through it.
Thanks
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I picked up the bundle. The EP seems super cool but sadly I can’t be bothered learning something new with life being all over the place!
It sounds fantastic and looks like loads of fun, one day I’ll dig in. The included drum samples are awesome! Worth it just for them!
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New online Ting editor here:
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So I decided to sit down this morning with a coffee and the EP-40. I loaded up a loop I recorded with the ting, 404 and my acoustic and went to work.
I quickly realized how stupid the online manual is once I tried searching on how to set a sample to loop! Finally found it but the sample is being time stretched or something. Off to search that only to find its set to off.
All that time wasted searching for easy stuff and I still have no idea why the sample sounds the way it does. Now I’m out of time and frustrated!
Oh well, at least my coffee was delicious!
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Outside of the OB-4, the entire EP series are my favorite instruments Teenage Engineering have created to date. The EP-40, EP-1320, & EP-133 are fantastic in nuanced ways. The EP-1320 is heavily underrated. They are all so inspiring, creative, & fun to use.
I’d take the EP series over the OP-1 without any hesitation.
Make a joyful noise! Or however you feel!
I’ve been a vocal critic of TE’s manuals for years. Synthdawg all the way and he only just released the EP-40 and Ting manual today!
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Thanks! That’s super convenient!
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So I was making a ton of headway just poking and hoping this afternoon. Actually got an hour to do so! I got a cool beat going and my Bluetooth speaker fell on the EP, all audio gone now! Ha!
I’m getting there!
These videos really helped me out. Highly recommended for the basics.
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Just a quick update post here on EP-PatchStudio, the native app for EP device and sample management and editing. It’s coming along nicely, I have the sample editor built that can create and edit:
- single samples
- loops
- multisamples
It also has options to create ‘kits’ in multisample format and can also load OP-1 drum kits too (but only 8 samples per kit).
I plan to turn this into a fully offline EP device manager and have been logging MIDI SYSEX traffic from the EP Sample Tool to the EP-40 to understand how it all works. All file management is working now and backups and restores too.
Lots of other cool features still coming along. I already have a few beta testers lined up, but if anyone else if interested please let me know. I hope to have this released early next year.
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ting is doing a feedback sound at start of this. i think with some shake mod could be even more fun. thing is if you don’t switch out the feedback it crashes the ting. if Ting 2 has a line in and usb midi control…!?
danger patch
{
“pos”: 0,
“list”: [
{
“effect”: “LOWPASS”,
“cutoff”: 0.6900000000000001
},
{
“effect”: “BALANCE”,
“balance”: 0.96
},
{
“effect”: “DELAY”,
“time”: 0.02,
“lowpass-cutoff”: 0.53,
“highpass-cutoff”: 0.45,
“wet-level”: 0.42,
“dry-level”: 0.21,
“echo”: 0.63,
“cross-feed”: 0.5700000000000001,
“balance”: 0.11,
“BUS”: 1
},
{
“effect”: “HARMONY”,
“dry-level”: 0.22,
“pitch”: 1.45,
“BUS”: 1
}
],
“lfo”: {
“row”: 1,
“param”: “balance”,
“depth”: 0.81,
“shape”: “sine”,
“speed”: 2,
“phase”: 0.58,
“mpy”: 1.53
},
“trigger”: {
“row”: 1
}
}
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I enjoyed this alot. Nicely done waftlord!
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