In general, I feel like Move is the complete opposite of an Elektron box. Playing vs. programming. Preset box vs. hours tweaking a single hit. DAWless vs. DAWful. Etc, etc.
I feel like a lot depends here on whether sound design or composition are your main thing. I’m firmly in the latter camp, to my taste a strong melodic or rhythmic idea carries everything else and the fine details of the sounds are alway secondary to that, so Move is perfect for me. Others look at it the other way around, so possibly it’s less so. Although fwiw I’d still think of it as the ideal device to bounce a bunch of sounds out of other gear and see how to fit them together without getting bogged down in spending hours on a kick drum at that stage. But I think it does take a bit of prep, I don’t find that dumping folders full of long samples and modular jams without chopping them down first has been particularly successful for me.
My favourite way to use it is pretty much as it’s designed - see what the randomise function serves up when opening a project, react to that, modify/replace as required, and build something up from there. Which leads to my main ask in terms of development from here - aside from sample slicing. For me, I think the box really needs to put in place a system for randomising from user samples/presets. Tagging or auto-tagging, etc. Ideally, on top of that, a way of randomising pads and presets from the user library as you go along, and as a cherry on top if possible - although probably not - some kind of lookalike sample function to accompany this, as seen in Live.
I’m pretty surprised that this kind of stuff isn’t more prominent in the Discord wishlist, vs. things that imho don’t really make sense in terms of what the box is, e.g. song mode. Although it already has song mode anyway in the form of scenes, they just need to be triggered manually.
Never found the four tracks particularly limiting, but probably that’s because usually I’ll make a call relatively early that something is ready to go further in Live/Push or isn’t worth spending more time on, then move on to the next project. It’s not a big deal to resample but I rarely do it, I’m more inclined to go to my sample library for something close enough and drop it in a drum pad to save the idea if I really, really want to keep the melodic lanes free for something else.
Anyway, still one of my favourite pieces of gear, when it comes to getting ideas down quickly there’s nothing like it.
) There is a feature request for that somewhere in the discord. It would be a really smart thing for Ableton to do because they could sell genre based packs that would allow you to swap your whole library out to be hip hop themed, or house music or whatever.