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Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world's most-hated audio tools.

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Teenage Engineering

Today we are going to talk about EP-133 KO II. This compact sampler and 80s tax consultant’s best friend lookalike is based on one of TEs very own Pocket Operators and while its price tag seems to be missing another zero at the end having "how to repair it" videos come out only days after its release is NOT the kind of innovation we had wished for.

Thanks to Klangfarbe for lending me one of their Teenage Engineering EP133 K.O. II floor models:

klangfarbe.com
instagram.com/klangfarbewien
youtube.com/@KlangfarbeCHANNEL

Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
01:00 Overview Teenage Engineering EP-133 K.O. II
01:40 Sample Playback
02:00 Sample Parameters
02:14 Sample Selection, Stock Samples
02:40 Groups
02:47 Patterns, Quantization, Note Repeat
03:04 Scenes
03:10 Sampling, Microphone, Trim, Time Stretch
03:35 Sample Chopping
03:43 Looper
03:55 Web App, Editor
04:04 Punch-in FX
04:18 Send FX
04:26 Filters
04:36 Fadergate
04:42 Fader Move Recording
04:47 What Else??? (Tech Specs, Thanks,...)
05:20 Hate
05:44 Jam 1 (Foley House)
06:36 Jam 2 (2-Step)
07:28 Finale (LoFi Beats to Relax/Study to)
07:57 Verdict