I have gotten in the habit of reading the manual of a device online before I purchase to avoid any confusion of said devices capability.
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give it time. heâll come around.
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N this is 1.1.2 I presume since the floppy is there? 
Wanna get back to using it but I canât trust it not to murder my beats
Does this thing have a 16 levels type mode? Also, given the sound design is quite limited, what sampler are people pairing the KO ii with?
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Iâve bit the bullet and wiped it. I did t have much on there I wanted to keep anyways but I feel your pain.
Have to say itâs flying now though. Mine had become sluggish which I think was to do with some sort of memory fragmentation problem so it was always trying to do housekeeping in the background
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I noticed that samples take a little more room on the KO than they do on the computer, mine is showing a bit over 8mb full, but the entire folder of samples I transferred is only about 7.5mb. Probably some file conversion since the source samples were 44.1khz and the KO is 46 or whatever weird ass non standard rate they used.
Not a huge issue but something to bear in mind when thinking about filling it up with 64mb of samples from your computer.
I didnât test 48khz samples but maybe they will use slightly less space than they would on the computer because presumably they would be downsampled.
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I just used Randomise on Drum Computer (iPad) and sampled the drums then instantly chopped them into kits. The KOII is certainly growing on me because is insanely immediate. Great design there, other issues aside 
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@te-david do you think that you could share a breakdown of the sound architecture ? That would help to understand how it works and see what feature would be possible or not. If I understand correctly, adding another FX slot would be a lot a work or very hard because the way the signal is routed, it goes through a single FX slot, is that right ?
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Did you contact TE and they told you that this is a problem you canât solve by yourself and you need to send EP-133 to them? My problem is that EP-133 shows up as a USB device that Windows 11 doesnât recognize and therefore canât be recognized by TE:s web application. Tried âeverythingâ. I donât want to do a factory reset, because that only erase all samples, correct? I wish that there was a real factory reset that saves everything except settings etc.
Yeah was gonna wait for some dumping method, maybe send it off to them so they can look at the problem in action but might as well just record them, factory reset it and try to reproduce it on a clean slate. Was hoping theyâd found some clue by the next update. Glad yours seems to be working rn!
In my case, when KO2 is turned on, win11 can recognize the EP-133 USB driver, but my KO2 screen does not light up, has no display or response, including sound. I tried to reload the [.tfw] update file in [reboot] mode, but could not re-flash the system firmware. All methods fail to resolve and recover. Finally, I contacted TE to report the situation and had no choice but to return it.
The batteries are annoyingly difficult to remove on this thing
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Use a guitar pick (or something similar) and insert it right where the plastics prongs meet the batteries. That gets them out easilyâŚotherwise yes, itâs super hard to get them out 
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Would have been cool if the EP-133 was solar powered!
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Total oversight in my book. All my other calculators are solar powered as well!!! What is more, most of them do resampling (ANS) right out of the box.
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If you just take your nail and pull away the holder in the middle they come out super easy. I struggled at first too but after finding this is super easy to get the batteries out 
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Some interesting stuff from David Eriksson, co-founder, in a new Musitech piece:
"Weâre going to put up online, quite soon, a factory tour to show the machinery we designed to build the K.O.II. There are a lot of robotics that move the fader up and down and push all the keys and calibrate them, plus we have a log of everything. So we know for sure that they work when they go into the box and leave the factory. And then, of course, we could guess that you get transport damage, but not at this rate.â
âAnd then there were a couple of different mistakes from our side with the packaging dimensions. The size of the box is 10 inches, so some stores thought it was a 10-inch vinyl package and so shipped it without padding. But it was also our little design flaw, we didnât have any protection, and if something hit the packaging straight on the fader, it would break. Now thatâs been changed. So we have new packaging â now, weâve been throwing it like a frisbee at work, at the walls, like over and over. And now it doesnât break.â (that part got me cracked up honestly)
A plethora of customers are still awaiting their replacement units or parts, though, which is no use to those who managed to grab a K.O.II before it sold out. The next batch is expected to be available in the next couple of months â hereâs hoping new customers will be able to throw theirs like a frisbee with no issues, too.
Those who are lucky enough to have a working model right now will see a handful of software updates recently implemented by TE. This includes some bug fixes and general quality-of-life improvements, which can be applied by opening the TE browser updater and plugging the sampler into a laptop or phone, which is a neat way to handle updates.
âWe have a lot of stuff planned, itâs just we were focusing on stability in the beginning and getting it rock solid,â says Eriksson. He keeps any info on the updates close to his chest, but does mention that TE hasnât even âturned on the CPUâs crazy power-saving featuresâ yet.
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Would love to be able to nudge patterns and / or copy push (like in a matrix table), instead of copy paste. Would allow to move around patterns more quickly.
Copy push :
- I have pattern 01, 02, 03, 04
- I want to move 04 to 02
- Copy - push while on 04 (could be shift+C three times)
- Shift + D on pattern 02
- 04 becomes 02 - former 02 become 03, 04 is now empty (because of the push).
Also Empty patterns shouldnât be pushed.
For example :
- 01, 02, 03 (empty), 04, 05
- copy push 04 to 02.
- Former 02 goes to 03 (which was empty), 04 remains in place, 05 is now empty.
And / Or Nudge in the same fashion as nudging instruments in a pattern.
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I wonder what that means. Battery life seems to be pretty good already. Or does that mean that the CPU is not even close to being maxed out yet?
Anyway, now that the packaging problem seems to be fixed with the next batch, I went ahead and ordered a KO2. Now Iâve got at least 6 weeks to watch tutorials and get familiar with the manual. On paper, it seems like a great companion to the op-1f. Stereo sampling from one instrument to the other through some FX pedals, KO2 sequencing op-1f, op-1f as a midi keyboard for the KO2, and longer jams on the KO2 can be recorded directly to the tape of the op-1f with punch-in FX and all. Seems to be a really nice match and I canât wait to hook them up.
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Itâs kinda ambiguous but I take it as they still have room to improve the CPU usage, maybe they have some kind of tricks up their sleeves they didnât want to use before they get the stability they need. In a previous post here, David said that the send FX wasnât limited by the hardware, but the CPU usage. If they improve that, it might be possible to have a second send FX slot, but that also needs a lot of work on the signal chain, because of the way the UI was made.
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