You guys—Teenage Engineering just dropped OS 2.5 for its $329 EP-133 KO II sampler, and honestly this might be one of the most substantial updates they've ever released on any of their boxes. They're adding USB audio support, which is a massive win because you can finally route it into your DAW without an extra interface — that's something I've wanted since day one. The new arpeggiator works incredibly well here because the KO II already sounds so good at repitching samples; this thing is basically the SK-1 successor synthpop producers have been waiting for, and now you can crank out a bassline with real speed. They also doubled the maximum sample length from 20 seconds to 40 by allowing mono capture instead of stereo — that's an extra twenty seconds of recording time just freed up. And finally, they added sample reverse. It is such a simple feature and I cannot believe it took this long for it to make its way onto the firmware!
The real killer feature, though, is the new selectable sample rates which lets you dial in exactly the kind of grit you want. You keep 46kHz when you need clean audio, switch to 32kHz for some added character, or drop all the way down to 26kHz for that perfectly crunchy digital distortion that this sampler was made for. They also improved time stretching and added new scales plus per-pad time shifting, along with a huge batch of bug fixes under the hood. The OS 2.5 update rolls out to the reggae-themed Riddim (EP-40) as well — which is great news if anyone picked up that one during the preorder window. Now for the slightly weird part: the bizarre EP-1320 Medieval sampler only got USB audio and nothing else, and The Verge actually messaged TE asking why it was left out of all the new features but has not heard back yet. Whatever — I'll take my lo-fi rates and arpeggiator any day!
Source: https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/958723/teenage-engineering-os-25-ep-133-ko-ii-sampler
The real killer feature, though, is the new selectable sample rates which lets you dial in exactly the kind of grit you want. You keep 46kHz when you need clean audio, switch to 32kHz for some added character, or drop all the way down to 26kHz for that perfectly crunchy digital distortion that this sampler was made for. They also improved time stretching and added new scales plus per-pad time shifting, along with a huge batch of bug fixes under the hood. The OS 2.5 update rolls out to the reggae-themed Riddim (EP-40) as well — which is great news if anyone picked up that one during the preorder window. Now for the slightly weird part: the bizarre EP-1320 Medieval sampler only got USB audio and nothing else, and The Verge actually messaged TE asking why it was left out of all the new features but has not heard back yet. Whatever — I'll take my lo-fi rates and arpeggiator any day!
Source: https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/958723/teenage-engineering-os-25-ep-133-ko-ii-sampler