Best Friend for K.O. II

Best Friend is the unrivaled companion app for Teenage Engineering EP-Series Samplers. Connect your EP-133, EP-40, or EP-1320 via USB-C to manage your hardware, upload and edit new files, and see your pad settings.

Best Friend is an extended display and feature augmentation app for the physical EP-133, EP-40, or EP-1320. Connecting to one of these is REQUIRED for the app to function. Use a USB-C to USB-C cable. Lightning iPhones and iPads can connect with USB-IF certified USB-A to USB-C cable and a MFi-certified Lightning to USB adapter.

Scenes:

• See all notes across all banks in a Scene or Song
• See Fader FX and automation lanes for each bank
• Export REAL audio stems of every individual pad from your EP
• Navigate through the Scene timeline with automatic playhead following

Bounce and Export Audio Stems:

• Export REAL audio stems from the hardware WITHOUT AI separation for any Scene or Song
• Choose from every individual pads (all 48), group mixdowns, or stereo mixdowns
• Fader automation is included in the export
• Export MIDI data from a Scene or Song
• Bring your bounces into your DAW of choice for mixing

MIDI Controller:

• Build rich chords with a button. Pick major, minor, suspended, or diminished triads then add a 6th, 7th, or 9th for flavour
• Play the velocity-sensitive keyboard
• Arpeggiator with 4 modes, 6 rates, and 3 octaves synced to the hardware clock
• Configure your own custom chords to any of the Chord or Extension buttons
• Split each key into 1-3 zones for playing chords in alternate positions
• Add pitch bends or modulation to any chord

Sample Editing:

• Extract stems (drum, bass, vocal, guitar, and other instrument) from your samples
• Build and edit multi-samples on the EP-1320 or EP-40
• Use Repitch to reduce the file size
• Permanent cropping
• Increase volume with normalize
• Reverse playback
• Convert stereo to mono
• Change sample rate
• Apply effects: 3-band EQ; compression; distortion and saturation; octaver; phaser; chorus; tremolo; delay; and reverb
• Automatically detect and set the key
• Save default pad settings

Hardware Management:

• Build Kits and Bank Snapshots while disconnected from the hardware
• Bulk upload samples from your Files and Videos
• Bulk move, share, and delete samples
• Edit and replace samples in place
• Import and record MIDI files
• Backup your Project or entire System
• Import Project and System from the official EP Sample Tool
• Extract Projects from your System Backups
• Preview stereo mixes of your Project Backups
• Automatic iCloud syncing across your Apple devices

Pads:

• Mute and unmute individual pads
• Apply performance effects to individual pads: mute, pitch up, pitch down, reverse
• Drag and drop pads to reassign them across groups
• See an entire bank of samples at once
• See the sample waveform along with its name and length
• See and edit the trim, attack, and release windows
• See and adjust volume, pitch, pan, mute, play mode, time-stretch, and MIDI channel
• See Supertone settings on your EP-40

Universal support:

• works on iPhone, iPad, and MacOS with built-in iCloud syncing
• works with EP-133 K.O. II, EP-40 Riddim, and EP-1320 Medieval with dedicated themes for each device

Best Friend is not affiliated with Teenage Engineering in any way.