Teenage Engineering EP-133 K.O. II Champ Edition: One-Two Punch!
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[31 October 2024] The Teenage Engineering EP-133 K.O. II Champ Edition comes in an exclusive collector’s box with Muhammad Ali artwork and includes a 10” vinyl record. Get in the ring!
Teenage Engineering EP-133 K.O. II Champ Edition
If you’re a fan of boxing legend Muhammad Ali – or of collectible box sets, for that matter – you can now get the Teenage Engineering EP-133 K.O. II sampler in the strictly limited Champ Edition. While the sampler itself is identical to the standard version, it comes in an exclusive fold-out box that sports Muhammad Ali artwork on the front, inside, and back. You also get a premium 10” vinyl pressing of the Loops & Samples Vol. 1 record – perfect for sampling.
You can now order the Teenage Engineering EP-133 K.O. II Champ Edition from Thomann* for $331 / £309 / €365.
The standard version of the sampler is of course still available*.
Teenage Engineering EP Sample Tool
[21 March 2024] The Teenage Engineering EP Sample Tool is a free web application that makes it easy to keep your samples organized on the EP-133 K.O. II sampler. Drag&drop samples from your computer to the device and vice versa, all from the comfort of your web browser.
The new EP Sample Tool from Teenage Engineering is a free browser app that makes short work of importing and exporting samples to and from the EP-133 K.O. II. The app recognizes the sampler when it’s plugged in and gives you easy drag&drop access to its memory. You can import and export samples, rearrange them in memory, and even trim the sample start and end points. Neat!
The Teenage Engineering EP Sample Tool is available free of charge on the manufacturer’s website. Unfortunately, though, it appears that it only works in Google Chrome as of now.
The EP-133 K.O. II is available from Thomann*.
EP-133 K.O. II
[22 November 2023 / Robin Vincent] This is certainly one heck of an upgrade over the original Pocket Operator. The PO-33 K.O! was a palm-sized, stripped-back micro sampler with 40 seconds of sample memory and a frantic interface for under one hundred pounds. The EP-133 K.O. II, while following a similar format, looks to be from some other planet, it’s much bigger than you think, and I have to say, it’s pretty stunning. It evidently blends a lot of different Teenage Engineering vibes. It has the opulence of the OP-1 screen and the precision of the TX-6 and TP-7, yet the Pocket Operator’s fun still shines through.
The design and layout are top-notch, everything we expect from T.E. But there’s also an abundance of controls, a generosity in the front panel that’s not as typical. At the time of writing, all I have is a photo and some specs, and I am seriously intrigued.
So, what do we get?
EP-133 K.O. II is a mobile sampler, sequencer and composer. That combination of features is probably what we’d usually call a groovebox. There’s an integrated microphone and speaker and a teeny weeny 64MB to sample into. It can handle 6 stereo or 12 mono voices and has room for 999 individual samples. It samples in 46.875kHz(?) and 16-bit with 32-bit internal processing.
It deals in Projects where each of the nine available Projects can contain 80,000 notes. These are managed through Patterns in Groups of four, where a Pattern has 12 tracks for samples and MIDI. All controls can be recorded and automated, with or without looping.
The numerical pads are pressure and velocity-sensitive with polyphonic aftertouch. They can be used to trigger samples and also drop in effects. There are six built-in send effects and a master compressor.
On the physical connections front, you get a 3.5mm stereo input and output, sync in/out, MIDI in/out and USB-C. 4x AAA batteries can also power it.
It is super thin and super lovely to look at with a sumptuous screen that, at the moment, I’ve got no clue what it does. I imagine all will become clear as soon as this launches.
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Needs resampling
Wonder if it is possible with a firmware update?
I wish I could sample in while hearing the track playing …. Tall ask – but, if I wanted to sample myself playing keys/synths and stack layers to build a track I would need to play each layer with the song in my head from memory – the rearrange/chop to fit- I get that that is how most samplers work – just would like more live sampling options where I could hear the track to play parts along to
Are we able to record the punch in effects is my biggest question??????
But I don’t understand what’s new. This web sample tool is available from the day of release of the EP-133 K.O. II.
Hello, I did see the newsletter featuring this tool, and then this piece of news. Honestly this tool has been available since the release of the machine I cannot understand the value of this news and the hype. Sorry.