For sure, I’ve been using those tricks for a while too. They’re fun in their own way.
Now that’s wisdom! I think limitations can be interesting. It’s just surprising sometimes where certain machines feel advanced and where they feel primitive - it’s truly lopsided. The DT2 (and even the DT) has certain tools that feel extremely precise, and others that feel very blunt. There’s still nothing else quite like it.
I have a MPC One now. It can do so much more than the Digitakt in terms of sound design, sampling, slicing, stretching, effects,layers and all… best bang for the buck you can get for “one box does it all”.
But… it’s a bit slow and awkward to operate. Elektron workflow is still king, by far, and make up for the (relative) lack of features. Obviously I’ll get a DT2 in 2025 
Don’t get me started on that thing! I bought it and couldn’t get rid of it quickly enough. Digitakt any day over that for me, please. 
Also having problems here. I have a swung track, and I’m trying to add an already swung perc loop to it. Can’t make the loop sound right with either grid machine or the old DT1 time stretch .
Haven’t given up yet, but it’s difficult finding anything usable.
Maybe the DT2 needs swing per track, so you can turn off swing on the ‘loop’ (however it might be looped) tracks.
Time stretch + resample + slice = happiness
Just so!
Soffter did a good step-by-step tutorial on this.
Also see:
Only drawback is that you need some free space on your +Drive so sample-hoarders like me might have to delete some stuff to make room first.
Concatenation after time stretch and before slicing everything is how I made this one:
Appreciate the tutorial links, @KingDuppy, but unfortunately I saw nothing there relevant to the problem I’m hitting with
Problem is, if you apply swing to the whole pattern (because you can’t do per-track swing on the DT) and you’re using a trigger based technique (like grid or 'old DT1 time slice’) then you seem to be applying more swing to the already swung loop. And if you don’t apply swing to the pattern, then the loop sounds OK but the things you add to it on other tracks don’t fit.
Seems I need to avoid that by either
Still experimenting …