Technically the usage orientation of the Octatrack is very different from the Toraiz. If you need the Octatrack to mangle long evolving textures, for me there’s no workaround to achieve this on the Toraiz.
==> the Toraiz offer to me a real middle High Quality Definition in the center of a live setup with like let’s say a Rytm MK2 and a Four MK2 because of it’s 16 Stereo Part with it’s Master Filter… You can cut just what you want to free the spectrum for the RYTM and the FOUR very easily … Also if you have an external mixer the TORAIZ offer so much Outputs you can really Mixing as well : Comfortable …
But sadly the Toraiz do not offer this extreme sample manipulation and long audio file as the OT so if you need that you need the TORAIZ + OT that’s simple.
But it’s not a problem a part of financially, you can deal with 4 gears in LIVE… you just need to be very well organized
Seems like Pioneer will bring not FX2 second slot but Performance FX in addition with another Reverb algorithm if we take in consideration Toraiz SP-16 and DJS 1000 are compatible… they probably make the OS hybrid between those two and bring the exact same tools. As the DJS1000 have more tools they probably working to harmonized both OS with this Performance FX offered by the DJS1000.
FX1 (already in Toraiz SP16) :
FX2 renamed Performance FX :