Teenage Engineering Made A Reggae-inspired Sampler, Complete With A Weird Microphone For Vocals

Teenage Engineering just revealed nan EP-40 Riddim sampler. This reggae-inspired groovebox is different redesign of nan pre-existing EP-133 KO II sampler. It has nan aforesaid quadrate assemblage and button-based workflow, but location are respective changes here.

First of all, nan full exterior has been redesigned to make that reggae taxable really pop. It's greenish and off-white, pinch nosy fonts aplenty. The point conscionable screams "play me," overmuch for illustration nan original KO II.

Perhaps nan biggest soul characteristic is nan summation of an existent synth motor called Supertone. The erstwhile models successful this bid were conscionable samplers. The institution promises that this motor tin present heavy bass sounds and classical leads. It besides offers entree to a dub-inspired siren mode that's unit sensitive. It oscillates faster nan harder you property it.

The instrumentality besides boasts double nan retention and an further main effect. All told, location are 7 main effects and 12 punch-in effects. These person each been inspired by reggae tunes. It comes pre-loaded pinch hundreds of samples which person besides chiefly been pulled from nan genre.

This isn't conscionable for reggae, arsenic sounds are sounds and group tin do immoderate they want pinch them. Also, it's really easy to load your ain samples into this instrumentality via a web tool. I've utilized nan instrumentality often pinch nan original KO II and it genuinely is drag-and-drop.

There's 1 last fascinating constituent here. The sampler ships pinch thing called nan EP-2350 Ting microphone. This handheld mic resembles thing retired of a CB power and is "lo-fi by design." It features 4 voice-changing effects, including 1 that combines echo and outpouring reverb. This is an basal effect for dub reggae vocals. In theory, this microphone could beryllium utilized pinch different devices, but it's only disposable arsenic a combo battalion pinch nan Riddim.

Everything other is successful statement pinch nan KO II. It has a speaker that'll apt beryllium beautiful crappy, but besides plentifulness of inputs and outputs. It operates via AA batteries and location are 12 buttons to trigger samples.

The Riddim is somewhat much costly than its counterparts, astatine $329. However, this does see nan aforementioned Ting microphone. It's disposable correct now for purchase.

This is nan second off-kilter rebrand of nan KO II. Teenage Engineering already released nan EP-1320 Medieval, which is filled pinch samples of screaming peasants, flutes and Gregorian chants. The menus were besides wholly successful Latin which, beloved readers, made it very difficult to usage for this dumb American.