Essential Tips for the Teenage Engineering EP 133 BEGINNER

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Getting started with the EP 133? Watch this video for some simple workflow tips to get you off on the right foot. This sampler from TE is amazing but does have a few quirky workflow issues to navigate.
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[@rodiaz6652]

I'm here to hit you with the good old "this channel needs more subscribers". Great video! Looking forward to watching more of your content

[@HiImNathan]

🤯 Thank you so much for the kind words and encouragement. I’m just getting started and finding my voice…looking forward to making lots of future videos. Cheers!

[@bombjela]

Hey Nathan....thank you for the videos you've been posting. I like the sounds you're making cos I think it's more experimental than the boom bap that's everywhere on KZbin. Love the vibe man! 😸😸😸

[@HiImNathan]

Hey thank you so much, that comment just made my week and is definitely great motivation as I get going with this KZbin thing. Cheers!

[@bombjela]

Cheers man! Looking forward to watch your next post! Have a good weekend!

[@fastswimming]

Those last two tips are exactly what I needed, thank you! keep up the great tutorials very easy to follow along with

[@nathanward4654]

Thank you so much! It’s so gratifying that the video helped! I was trying to make a beat on the KOII tonight and I’m still learning things! Might need to make another video haha

[@lukemarshall8604]

This was great appreciate the tips.

[@HiImNathan]

Hope it helps you get going with the KO II Luke! Make sure to check out my PT2 tips video too 🫶

[@christianmontane3850]

Thanks for the "411" hint. Keep up the good work

[@HiImNathan]

Glad you could find something helpful in the video Christian! That default feature was driving me CRAZY for a while.

[@brianhuxtable4026]

👏👏👏cheers for the post. My KO2 coming end of February. 🎯

[@HiImNathan]

Thanks Brian, really appreciate you watching! The KO2 is awesome...have you ever owned a sampler before? I don't have much experience with them so maybe that's why I like it so much?

[@brianhuxtable4026]

@@HiImNathan Hi Nathan,yes but only the PO33 + PO12 & recently bought the Roland Aria S1 which is also a great bit of kit. Keep up the great work on the KO2. 🤝🎯

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

Good video for just starting out. Not that I'm an expert, but if I could give any advice it would be to focus on making 'good' content and not just content. Way too many people trying to meet specific upload goals every week, but I don't think you get long term subscribers that way. Also, I would say work on a short intro of some sort that's in every video, but not too long. Cool flashy intros are great to watch once, but then 90% of viewers skip over them after that.

[@HiImNathan]

Thanks for taking the time to check out my video and for the thoughtful comment. If there is one thing that I’ve learned the past week it’s that creators make this work look so so easy and that I have many things to learn. Thank you!

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

@@HiImNathan Yeah, making videos is definitely a LOT of work!

[@TrickmanTerry]

Good stuff. Thanks for the tips. Im just starting out on my EP-133 KO2 myself. When you switched parts in making the beat, did you hit commit and then it switched so you could add to it? You have a new sub.

[@HiImNathan]

Hey Terry, appreciate you watching and leaving a comment. I realized this week I need to make another video about the EP133 workflow, esp related to Scenes. Commit copies what you have and immediately makes a new scene with that info. I always thought Commit was like “Save”, but it’s literally how you add scenes. So in the video when I’m switching parts I’m changing from existing scenes by hitting Main and +\-

[@user-ew4qd4by5l]

@@HiImNathan Oh, so that's how you switch it after it's made. Got it. Yeah, it's a bit confusing in the beginning with the commit function. I haven't found a song mode that plays it all the way through. Maybe they will add that later (hopefully)

[@HiImNathan]

Yeah no song mode for now, but many people are hoping it happens with a firmware update. For now, think of it as a performance device and switch between scenes to get your song structure. Weird for sure!

[@cresshead]

subbed

[@HiImNathan]

Thank you 🫡

[@Gas_What_We_Smoke]

nice video bro keep grinding

[@HiImNathan]

Appreciate that, thanks for checking the video out!

[@erniecf]

Nice

[@HiImNathan]

Thank you for watching 🫡

[@ferenclucas2842]

So basically great workflow aside you get only up to 4 patterns in a project and 99 ways (scenes) to vary those parts by mostly fading parts in and out? So it's made to keep playing the same pattern over and over and just vary it? I mean creating chained patterns verse, per chorus, chorus not possible right?

[@HiImNathan]

All great questions. It definitely gets confusing…In this video I didn’t even get into what TE calls patterns but I do discuss it in my newest video. Inside of your project you get scenes (up to 99 by hitting Shift/Commit and +\-), and patterns (up to 99 by hitting Main/A or B or C or D and +\-). The rest of the workflow is up to you. Yes most people are using the sampler to keep the same beat or pattern going throughout but you don’t have to use it like that. You could make lots of variation by creating your first scene then hitting Shift/Commit to create a new scene which makes an exact copy of scene 1. Then in scene two delete your patterns Erase/hold group A, B, C, D and then make all new beats in that scene and switch between them by hitting main +\- .

[@sarundayo]

Good stuff. Add some timestamps next time please? :D

[@HiImNathan]

Hey, thank you so much for watching. I will definitely take this suggestion for the next one, I do love how Loopop’s videos always have a timestamp guide on the side on the video.

[@9londoncalling]

Nice stuff bro but no need to swear! Subbed.

[@HiImNathan]

i'm just being me, but will definitely consider whether to swear or not in the next one. Appreciate you!

[@smittystankey6259]

🌺 "Promo sm"

[@cappaofficial]

This is a** smh

[@HiImNathan]

Thank you so much for that assessment! Get it?