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Re: Medieval

#21
post #18

I love the segments in the LED display. That's attention to detail. Bet that cost a pretty penny

You should see the margins on their other products. They can well afford to dip into the brand marketing budget to have things like this produced. :)

Re: Medieval

#22

This is so wacky I thought it was like an old April Fool's Day joke page by them

That's sorta become Teenage's brand these days. I can't decide about how I feel about it but I'm defaulting to digging it.

The world would be missing something if we didn't have creative geniuses off in the corner making art for art's sake, accessible for the masses to keep at home.

Re: Medieval

#25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I liked it too, but didn't like that I couldn't zoom out to view more, i found that frustrating

I can't even think of a good reason not to allow that, it's all static images and text.

In Safari on iOS I can zoom in on the page with whatever that reverse-pinch gesture is called. I think Apple also came to that same conclusion as you guys quite a few years ago that allowing the website owner to prevent the user from zooming in on pages on the phone was incredibly user-hostile and so they stopped honoring the part of the meta viewport html5 tag that specifies that the page cannot be zoomed in.

Re: Medieval

#26

This seems to be the same as the EP-133 K.O. II with a difference: - 128MB memory including 96MB ROM sounds and 32MB user sample memory on the Medieval vs - 64 MB memory, or 999 sample slots on the K.O. II.

Yes, is this a slight hardware refresh to the EP-133 with a new skin and different factory presets?

The KO-1 had a similar "Street Fighter" edition, which could be loaded with the original PO-33 samples.

Are there any reasons not to buy this over the EP-133 from a pure capability standpoint? I wish the marketing were a bit clearer on that front, seems we need to intuit this by diving into the specs and capabilities ourselves.

Re: Medieval

#27

This is so wacky I thought it was like an old April Fool's Day joke page by them

That's sorta become Teenage's brand these days. I can't decide about how I feel about it but I'm defaulting to digging it.

All of their products are completely pointless and I am incredibly happy that they exist.

Re: Medieval

#29

This seems to be the same as the EP-133 K.O. II with a difference: - 128MB memory including 96MB ROM sounds and 32MB user sample memory on the Medieval vs - 64 MB memory, or 999 sample slots on the K.O. II.

It has a new arpeggiator, new punch in and send effects. So, different firmware.

Re: Medieval

#30
post #26

This seems to be the same as the EP-133 K.O. II with a difference: - 128MB memory including 96MB ROM sounds and 32MB user sample memory on the Medieval vs - 64 MB memory, or 999 sample slots on the K.O. II.

Yes, is this a slight hardware refresh to the EP-133 with a new skin and different factory presets? The KO-1 had a similar "Street Fighter" edition, which could be loaded with the original PO-33 samples. Are there any reasons not to buy this over the EP-133 from a pure capability standpoint? I wish the marketing were a bit clearer on that front, seems we need to intuit this by diving into the specs and capabilities o…

There are new features in the software (presumably implementable on the original if they choose to) but the new one has twice as much memory, with the new samples taking up 75% of that.
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