Nice 'Holy Mountain' vibes in the promo video.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Mountain_(1973_film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdXGhsAynGI

I don't need this. I didn't need this.

I'll get it when we upgrade Spitfire this year.

I don't need it either. Also, take my filthy lucre, you beasts.

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.

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.

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

If you've never heard of bardcore it's well worth a google

That is both amazing and frightful. I like the creativity that we can find these days.

I have no use for it but I am really happy there are people doing this.

Really like the website design. Unique, but not at a sacrifice of usability

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.

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.

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

Was hoping it would just be a cute lil $10 or so VST/AU plugin, but still love the concept

Weird is good.

Is this limited edition?

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. :)

Fwiw Teenage Engineering is a design firm who was originally contracted by Rabbit to design the physical device. I don't think they had anything to do with the functionality.

That’s a good point, I guess they didn’t have any hand in the software…just seems icky to me.

I trusted the product mainly because of their name, it’s hard for me to understand how they didn’t see what the underlying product was when they attached their name to it.

Gizmondo was designed by Sir Clive Sinclair. First rule of a Producers-like scheme is to have the thing designed by a famous designer.