How to Back Up and Organise EP-133 Projects on Your Computer

The EP-133 K.O. II holds nine projects at once, slots 1 to 9. That’s plenty for a jam, but it fills up fast once you’re writing regularly or prepping a set. The moment you want a tenth idea, something has to give.

Don’t delete your old work. Move it off the device and keep it in an organised library on your computer. Then your nine slots become a rotating workspace: pull in what you need for tonight, archive the rest and never lose a sketch. Here’s how.

The Project Viewer, Project Library, Project Sets and Backup & Restore are part of Pro. The 14-day trial includes them.

For whole-device backups and restoring, see the main backup guide, How to Back Up and Restore Your EP-133, EP-40 or EP-1320.

The nine-project limit, and why a library beats it

Nine projects is a hardware constraint, not a storage one. Your computer has no such limit, so the trick is to treat the device as a working set and your computer as the archive.

Teenage Engineering’s official EP Sample Tool can back projects up, and it’s the right tool for a straight backup. But it saves them as .ppak files, which are archive bundles, so once they’re on your disk you’re looking at a folder of near-identical filenames with no easy way to tell them apart, name them, tag them or hear what’s inside. EP-PatchStudio gives you a library you can actually read instead.

Building a named, searchable library

In EP-PatchStudio’s Project Viewer, open a project from your device and save it to your local library. Each saved project keeps a name you choose (“dub set opener”, “phonk wip”, “live A”, not P03), tags for organisation (by genre, gig, BPM, whatever makes sense to you), the real sample names from the project so you can see what’s inside at a glance and click-to-preview, so you can click any pad to hear its sample played back on your computer.

Because projects are named and tagged, you can search the whole library and pull up exactly the one you want in seconds, no guessing from filenames.

A workflow for prepping sets

Once your library is in order, rotating projects through the nine slots becomes easy.

Archive as you go. Whenever you finish an idea, save it to the library and tag it. That frees the slot on the device for the next one.
Build a setlist. Search and tag the projects you want for a gig, say everything tagged live-spring, so they’re grouped together.
Load in what you need. Restore the projects for tonight into slots 1 to 9 before you leave, knowing the rest are safe.
Capture the night. Back up anything you changed on stage when you get home, so live tweaks make it into the archive too.

The device stays uncluttered, and everything you’ve made is in the library.

Once you’re doing this regularly, Project Sets turn a whole night’s loadout into a single saved item: capture your nine slots as a named Set, and reload the lot in one action instead of restoring nine projects by hand.

Don’t forget a full backup too

A named library is for everyday work, but keep a full device backup as well, especially before a firmware update or a big reorganisation. EP-PatchStudio’s Backup & Restore covers single projects, all projects or the whole device, so you’ve got a safety net on top of your working library.

Get started

EP-PatchStudio is free to download. The Project Library and Project Sets are part of Pro, and the 14-day trial includes them. Build your off-device library and stop fighting the nine-project limit.

EP-PatchStudio is an independent app from SquareWave Studio. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Teenage Engineering AB.