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Teenage Engineering EP-133 K.O. II

46.875 kHz, which is not a typo.

What it needs

The EP-133 runs at 46.875 kHz in 16 bit, mono or stereo. The rate is genuinely that, and it is the one number on this site most likely to be read as a mistake.

The internal signal chain is 32 bit, so the 16 bit figure describes what you hand over rather than what happens after that.

Format         WAV
Sample rate    46.875 kHz
Bit depth      16 bit
Channels       Mono or stereo

Getting the files there

Samples go on over USB using Teenage Engineering's sample tool. The device presents itself for transfer and the tool handles the rest.

Prepared folder on disk
  Kick 01.wav      46.875 kHz  16 bit
  Snare 03.wav     46.875 kHz  16 bit

  -> Teenage Engineering sample tool, over USB
     -> EP-133 K.O. II

Doing it in Sample Miner

Export Options has a Hardware target dropdown. Selecting EP-133 K.O. II sets WAV at 46.875 kHz and 16 bit, leaves the channel count alone and clears the sampler format.

No general purpose converter offers 46.875 kHz in a menu, which is why this is a preset rather than something to dial in.

Why 44.1 is the wrong default

Handing the EP-133 a 44.1 kHz file means it resamples to its own rate on the way in. The result is fine and the process is invisible, and you have still let a conversion happen that you did not pick.

Matching the native rate on the desktop removes that step. It is a small thing per sample and it compounds across a kit.

The limits

Onboard storage is fixed and there is no card to expand it. What goes on the device is a selection rather than a library, so the choosing is the work.

The EP-133 maps samples to pads rather than to keys, so a chromatic multisample does not arrive as a playable instrument.

Sources

Specification confirmed against Teenage Engineering documentation.