it has the foam protection pieces that they have added to all the EP boxes now
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your trial tracks are absolutely ridiculous, and I mean that in the most highest of praising ways. great trip report.
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Maybe if someone had given this to Popol Vuh instead of a Moog, the soundtrack of Aguirre could have been even less period appropriate.
Any word on a firmware update for EP-1320 yet? Last patch release was before the sack of Magdeburg…
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thank you! it was a trip for sure, these sativas hittin right these days. i was listening to some of my tunes from a couple of weeks ago and thinking “damn ive been making ridiculous medieval ass tunes for a while”
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I know I’m a whole epoch or two off here, but someone needs to take the samples from this and remake the Nine Inch Nails Broken EP and call it “Baroquen” or there will never be joy in the universe again.
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I’m with pants…
and Slic
Ditto. My daughter has a D&D group and she loved the idea. I think it’s a shite idea but so what.
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so turns out the stock samples can be downloaded from the device.
im looking at the flute multisample and its actually 7 different samples in a 25 second file, not the 2 or 3 i was thinking earlier. the file starts with a single note which is what plays in one shot mode, then the 7 different samples are lined up. seems like it would be easy to make your own multisamples in this format. likely uses similar logic as the chopping system?
gonna take mine to a ghost town today, run a seance and try to raise some ghouls
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If these 96MB could be used for user multisamples, then that would be an excellent tradeoff for losing the sample chopping capability of the KO II. Can you confirm that the ROM is locked (no user multisamples)?
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the chop function is still there in fact!
and yes they are locked, i used the sample tool this morning. they can be downloaded but i dont know how one would designate a sample as a multisample, there wasnt any indication on the tool that i noticed. that would be awesome if we could even use the 32mb for user multisamples.
the timestretching feature is already fairly good, so i loaded up a bunch of roland sounds i like that i sampled from the mc101, thinking that having it mainly be an instrument box could be the direction i take with it.
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…market profits are the only language, all companies, no matter what their approach to business might be, always understand…
and te really get lazy these days…just another sampling device can be seen as funky funny…
or as nothing but next level naked consumerism…
a pretty poor move for a company that usually used to combine great simple designs with truu little sonic innovation items…
but hey, really doesn’t matter what i think or “whish”…they’ll find enough fandom people who’ll gladly pay for this plastic toy from china anyways…one or two small batches of pseudo exclusive design items ordered for fifty bux a unit, sold for 200 plus bux over here is a well and easy made profit…so be it…i could’nt care less…it’s just another little sad sign of the times…
Excellent stuff, unbelievable really that you made these with medieval samples!
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I might also use this as an instrument box and the 133 as a sample/percussion box. I assume the sync between the 2 should be super solid.
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Gonna have to rub some chocolate on the pads to refresh them before i sell mine on reverb next year probably
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As usual, @schoolbabyboy knocks it out of the park with his demos. Great work!
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Strange read of the situation. I would say this indicates they’re not driven by pure profit and their approach is to do what benefits the brand (which is one of experimentation and whimsy). Why criticize a company for not making what you see the market wanting, and in the same breath castigate them for being “naked consumers”?
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The EP series is built in Spain if I remember correctly.
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I agree, nice to see TE putting out an alternative skin on their KOII and wildly into a genre nobody was talking about or asking for - which in the samey world of synth dinosaurs trading off their greatest hits from decades past, is fresh. Medieval, but fresh.
I’d like to see a Iron Age next
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…well…whatsoever…but in the fineprint promotion, it is indeed, kind of geeenious…
i’ll give them that…
since it always needs at least two perspectives to get a real story, just having a sonic into the blue shot with such a preset selection is indeed price and timeless…
therefor, i’ll change my mind…who needs a next take on synthesis and calculatorgrooveboxy thing if u can klik klak blow a frozen medieval whistle and some stiffy bagpipes to rock the house…
not to mention this next level of globalism…designed and concepted with one hand in the pocket in sweden…purchasing and producing the parts in china…assembling them in spain…creativity comes in many candy coloured flavours…
I got asked to paint a large room in a unique property, medieval style and given free license to choose colours. It’s almost identical. I will post a shot when finished.
Interesting to find out I’m on point with TE designers. I’ll suggest he adds this to the banquet table as a final touch - even if it is FUGLY.
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