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Teenage Engineering new $299 EP-133 KO II sampler, sequencer and composer looks like a genuine knockout.

Teenage Engineering might be best-known for its more expensive audio gears.

Teenage Engineering today introduced the EP–133 K.O. II, a powerful sampler, sequencer and composer that, priced at $299, is surprisingly affordable.

Now we’re witnessing what Teenage Engineering is calling the “evolution” of the Pocket Operator with the release of EP-133 KO II, a redesigned and enhanced successor to the popular PO-33 KO1 sampler.

The EP–133 K.O. II enables you record sounds around you, sequence your samples and loops, tweak and automate filter, pitch and more, add stereo effects, compressor and punch-in effects, all on a chonky device with retro-sexy vintage calculator vibes.

This does away with the barebones design of the Pocket Operators to offer something far more refined: the EP-33 KO II looks like a fully-finished piece of audio gear rather than something that’s awaiting the fitting of a case. There’s a reworked sequencer, new punch-in 2.0 effects and a supposedly faster workflow.

The EP-33 KO II also offers a built-in mic for instant sampling, and a built-in speaker so that you can use it completely standalone. There are 999 sample slots (the sample rate is 36kHz/16-bit), 64MB memory, a multi-functional fader and a selection of drum, bass and keys samples to get you started.

Those samples can be chopped and looped, and there’s a chromatic keys mode that will enable you to get the most out of the pressure- and velocity-sensitive keys. You can work with six stereo or 12 mono voices, and connectivity includes stereo audio I/O, sync I/O, TRS-A MIDI I/O and USB-C. This last port can be used in MIDI device mode and to provide power, which can also come from four AAA batteries if you’d prefer.

Teenage Engineering EP-133 KO II Features:

• 9 projects each with 80,000 notes
• Projects contain 4 groups, each with 99 patterns
• Patterns have 12 TRACKS for samples and MIDI
• Variable pattern length per group (1 to 99 bars)
• 12 mono / 6 stereo voice polyphony
• Use groups to mix and match patterns on the fly
• Record and automate all 12 fader assignments
• Sequence in free time or quantized with swing
• Assign any pad to one of 16 MIDI channels
• Loop mode from OB-4 with length AND slide
• 12 pressure and velocity sensitive pads
• Instantaneous timE correction and erase
• Slice samples LIVE OR AUTOmatically
• Stereo / mono sampling at 46.875 kHz / 16-bit
• Punch-in 2.0™ effects (PRESSURE SENSITIVE)
• Arrange quickly using the instant commit feature
• 32-bit float signal chain, 24-bit ADC / DAC
• SYNC IO FOR EXT. GEAR. 8TH, 16TH NOTE OR SYNC24
• 6 built-in send fx and a master compressor
• Drag and drop samples using the sample tool

Here’s a video intro from Cuckoo:

This is the most excited about a new Teenage Engineering product. Not only it is totally musician-focused, it also comes at an affordable price of $299, and should ensure that the EP-33 K.O. II is on a lot of people’s Christmas list.

The EP–133 K.O. II is available now for $299 and ships in a 10-inch collector’s case. There are other accessories like a soft carry bag for $69, on Amazon site. Find out more on the Teenage Engineering website.

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Free Music Software: Valhalla DSP has released ValhallaSupermassive 3.0.0, a major update to the free audio effect that adds two new reverb/delay modes, Leo and Virgo.

Leo is the biggest, lushest, densest mode in Supermassive, while Virgo is the smallest, grainiest, most spare reverb mode in the plugin.

“I’ve loved working on Supermassive over the past few years,” says developer Sean Costello. “Since Supermassive is a free plugin, I don’t feel the pressure to make things perfect that I do with the paid plugins. With less pressure, I’m able to experiment with new things, and try out ideas that might be too weird otherwise. All that being said, the last few rounds of Supermassive research have resulted in algorithms that refine some of the original concepts, and just make them better.”

What they say about the new modes:

• The new Leo mode is the most super massive-est of all the Supermassive modes. It has a very slow attack, a long to VERY long decay that is controlled by both Density and Feedback, and a high echo density, with balanced modulation. Leo interleaves the high and low EQ filters throughout the reverb network, which means that the reverb decay can be dark, shrill, bass heavy, whisper light, or just perfectly balanced. I find Leo is ideal for big synthesizer sounds, as well as realistic cathedral sounds and other long reverbs.
• Virgo is the smallest and sparsest mode in Supermassive. It has a fast attack, and basically sounds and behaves like a stereo delay until the Density control is turned up. With higher Density settings, it still sounds like a grainy delay, that kinda sorta turns into a reverb. Virgo is great for pointillistic echoes, spring-ish reverb sounds, and other sparse effects that create more space around your sounds..

Valhalla Supermassive 3.0.0 is available now as a free download for macOS + Windows.

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Today, Tiptop Audio announced the availability of the Model 296t Programable Spectral Processor, a Euro format version of Don Buchla’s original mega module.

What they say about the module:

“The 296 was first introduced in 1978 and very few were ever made. Making a module of such complexity at a time when electronic schematics were drawn with pencils, with 48 filters that were most likely hand-calculated is just incredible.

The 70’s were a great era of exploration and proof of audio electronics scientific theories, but for Don Buchla it seems like it was always something beyond theory.

The 296 might at first look like an equalizer, but Don had totally different ideas for it. He managed to pack into it a 16-band analog modular spectral processor, a cros- band vocoder, plus a massive amount of patch points to work with his synthesizer system.”

The 296t Programable Spectral Processor is available now for $699.

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