hits :
arturia minifreak
they might as well have called this the arturia neurodivergent bc
- the mirror vst which it connects to via USB results in not having to deal with cables and weird audio nonsense
- only three initial parameters so you don’t have to obsess over meaningless sound design details
- a million different oscillator types to switch between when you get bored after 5 minutes
it’s the flagship poly for my tiny studio space and i just love to chill with it and make sounds aimlessly when i need to decompress- the new granular engines also rule
elektron digitone 2
i’ve owned 6-7 other elektron boxes. this is the one that i feel they’ve objectively knocked out of the park. i don’t even use the FM tone machine bc tbh nothing is less inspiring than looking at an “algorithm” with numbers everywhere. this isn’t even an issue considering wavetone is essentially adjacent to the analog 4 (digital 16) in terms of workflow
elektron syntakt
my favorite elektron box by purely subjective criteria- it was repurchased after being sold to fund a dt2 (more on that later i guess). details on why can be found here
misses:
elektron digitakt 2
i get in trouble on this forum when i mention my issues with this one, so i’m just going to quote someone else on here that i agree with
i look forward to buying it again if the bugs get fixed- hopefully it can be on the hits list next year!