Let's Check Out the New Teenage Engineering EP-133 KO-2 | Is it a Toy or a Real Sampler? 🤔 

“People will think your doing somebody’s taxes” 😂

I read that the reason for the 64 mb memory is so musicians will finish their projects and not just store a bunch of incomplete songs. We will wait and see if they're right 😊

This is a Texas Instruments TI-404Mk3. It looks fun, price is good, 64mb is not bad for a sampler. Some of the old school samplers that we still use don't have that much memory.

AKAI MPC also looks like a giant cash register and also spit out plenty of cash too 😂

5 min for 9 songs is plenty of time if your song is longer then 5 min you should be at the daw or using higer end gear. Its does great things but its not ment to be a mpc its a beat sketch book.

It was a no brainer … I saw the price and purchased THEN I went and watched videos lol

This looks pretty dope I'm pretty sure it has its uses

I don't judge gear by size, and do have the original k.o 33 which is fun. This one is so aesthetically pleasing and I did cop one of these, just looks fun to finger drum on, the 64mb will be fine, they are 16 bit, 20 sec max length samples which is a lot compared to what all the legends had back in the day. The only thing I'm thinking is doesn't seem to be a way to back it up which unless they change it, means you gotta ditch your stuff eventually, the original p.o had this sort of temporary workflow but that you could back up and restore. Be really keen to see what you'd cook up on one of these.

For the first time in yrs Iam actually happy with what I have. Maybe I can finally just make music. 😅

Looks like a fun gadget you could play around with on Xmas day or discretely in a coffee shop. Love the style/look too and the price is on point. My MPC One is so chunky and ugly in comparison. Akai needs to try harder at their design and show a bit more innovation. Same old square shoes boxes every time. For me, a battery powered sampler, with a mic and screen at a great price point would be Koala sampler on my iPhone. It’s more feature packed and more convenient as my phone is always with me. lol, I wrote this before watching the whole video - koala!! Yes….

Supposedly this is a series of things, so it might end up being more money than the OP1 by the time you form voltron with them all 😜

Grabbed one after I watched some videos. Just looks fun in general and a good addition for a really solid price. Couldn’t say no!!

Been looking for a sampler/drum machine for a while now and was bummed about prices, then this thing drops today. Watched 3 vids and bought one. $299 is a great price for what it does and these will probably sell out in a week I’m guessing

Aye if it makes the air vibrate then itsa tool 🕺🏿

Stumbled into your channel... enjoyed the vid and subbed. Confession... I have way too many samplers and drum machines, but yeah.. I bought one of these today, lol. I did the mpc thing for a long time (and still use from time to time), but mostly went Elektrons the last few years which really changed how I make music and the style a bit too. So for me... I'll use this ep-133 to make loops or do live jams both of which I'll fiddle with the knobs and try to capture da magic, lol.... which I likely resample or chop in a daw or elsewhere. That's a long way of saying I don't think I'll be making full tracks with it, but who knows. The big selling point for me is that onboard mic!!! I have lots of mics, but the onboard one + battery power opens up some cool creative things. I use to be about buying premium sample kits, but these days trying some new things to keep it fresh, lol. Thx!

Great video! I have been trying to wrap my head around the memory size of 64MB. As we all know the specs show stereo / mono sampling at 46.875 kHz / 16-bit. My calculations show if we calculate a WAV at 44kHz also at 16 bit. That would equal 12mins 05 secs (heavy on the ish). Also, I am wondering and hopeful the usb c port would support external memory at a later time? Which, I think would be ideal.. Happy creating out there everyone!

Yes couldn’t resist. Copped one myself.

How are we supposed to store and save projects on this though? That's my major question.

haha this is how I browse the TE website every year too... **looks at the price** no nononono

now you gotta get one and make some accountant type beats

I’ll find out in a few days 😂😂😂 I copped it for the potential resale value also . Those OP-1’s were selling for crazy high used way back .

Waiting for mine to arrive in a couple of days, can’t wait to go around looking like I m doing somebody’s taxes😂 I own the og op-1 and I love it so much, hope it’s the same with this thing.

Great video. Just subbed. Dig ur style

so maybe better it having a hands-on jog-wheel for live performance

In a Cafe looking like your Doing someones Taxes lol

i actually like this toy i do want to play with and what i like about it is the price because its a fair price for this and what i do, so yeah it would be the first of the product that im really interested in... by the way i like your new direction that you took your contents because i really like where you coming from with your opinions, so yes keep your new videos coming Elbow, but don't forget to do your other type of content, like for example your beat battle and you making beats videos, so anyway peace and blessed Elbow ✊🏽

TE... selling sleek designed toys to the iPhone generations

That demo does not do this thing justice at all lmao

Lol it does look interesting. The hypebeast in me is like you gotta try it

I bought one

I really dig it

it seems to have quite a pleasing sound character from the videos i've seen of it

Memory is already in it,, it will be an update 😳

I've been listening to rap since 83, and I understand the OG producers like Marley Marl & Prince Paul were high-tech when they got MPC's that used 1.4MB floppy disks. And would have a container full of disks with all their samples. But 64MB in 2023 seems like a huge step backward. All this needed was an SD slot and BOOM 512GB card. Do you need 512GB on a device like this, absolutely not. But 64MB? Even 1GB would have been decent. I understand with compression 20 seconds is actually a decent amount of samples. But I'm used to my MPC One with a 128GB card where I had what seems like every sample in the world on it and still have 80 gigs free lol. I know this isn't an MPC One and they're not comparable, it's a cool ass machine and I'm trying to figure out why I want one, because I want one.

I like to take a positive attitude with new stuff. I like the OP-1 and OP-Z a lot and I'm glad TE is making musical instruments again instead of the silly wooden doll things and tables. However, I watched them do an EP-133 demo on the Anderton's video and what struck me about it was that it would be very awkward and imprecise to work with samples. The display is just a group of icons that turn on and off. It doesn't show the waveform, so trimming the sample has to be done with sound only. When you want to slice a sample into pieces, you have to just listen as you play it and guess when to press a button several times to slice it; you can't see the waveform and where the slices are going to be so you can adjust it. The amount of memory is tiny compared to an SP-404; it's just too short, especially without an SD card slot. I wouldn't want to be limited to 20 seconds of sampling time. That alone is enough to be a deal breaker for me. It doesn't look like there is much precision or fine adjustment on anything. When you adjust things, it looks like you can only see four levels of adjustment on the display icons. Sometimes it's fun to have some limitations to see what you can do with them, but if there are too many I get bored with it, like with the volkas and pocket operators. I bought three of those over time and then realized for what I spent on three things that don't do much of anything I could have waited and bought one thing I can do ten times more with. I think it's a good looking little device, and I realize they were limited by the price they were going for, but if I wanted something with this form factor and workflow, I think I'd rather buy an SP-404 instead since the prices are pretty close now and it seems much more capable with samples and effects and has enough memory so that you wouldn't keep running out while trying to do things. I would like to hear some SP-404 owners' thoughts about it.

It is NOT 64 bit. It is 16 bit sampling and 64 MB of internal memory.

I would class it as a real fully fledged sampler 16 bit sample rate midi packed with effects compression ect I defo want one

It is unclear to me if that 64Mb is hardrive/ flash memory, or RAM? I suppose it is RAM, but then again I can't find the specs on storage capacity? Please enlighten me, when somebody finds this information.

The design and marketing has my attention… but 64mb?

No SD card to save? 64mb with no save

Two firsts since the pandemic shortage & inflation, Damn things are in stock. No preorder wait! and Affordable..!

I’m buying it

I just wanna know the sampling time can’t be longer than like 10 seconds

It's a sketchpad for fun, nothing more (and nothing less :)

Looks like Microsoft could have bundled it with Starfield. Really futuristic layout.

How is Koala Sampler not sampling in a traditional way?

They made it look like a calculator.

Looks like a 70s calculator

Koala sampler is available on Android also. I have it on both.

6:07 😂

Sd card?

Stick up kids is out to tax!!!

64mb? Thats double of what the MPC 2k/2k memory

“Are”? … “or” ?

Looks like calculator😂

The quality/price/value of the EP-13 aside, do you think TE's use of Ali's image is cultural approptiation? I won't lie to you, I love the packaging. Ali is the greatest K.O. artist of all time. Tyson, yeah. Tank, yeah. But Ali was the man on so many levels. I wonder what Ali would think of it. .

Love the new channel name!