I was more interested in the Perc synth
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I didnāt know about that one. I do find the Macrosynth to be an amazing drum synth already though.
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I never owned an M8. Iāve read tons of posts and it seems that the winner for people is M8 over mini. But Polynes made one of the best UI out there. They are masters of UI. In my opinion having Tracker, Play and Synth.
Sometimes you need less to make more music. Iām saying very seriously coming from a DAW is incredible what you can do with 2fx per step (reverbs and delays sounds very good), 8 tracks and 8 synth voice polyphony.
You can do full songs with Mini and very easily thanks to a very very clever workflow. I think they have made a very powerful device.
My favourite groove box: Tracker mini.
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I never use the chord part. I use 2 or 3 tracks usually to make chords. You have a very very very powerful FX there: random note. Choose an scale and choose a random note FX. The bigger the number, the bigger it drifts from the main note you have chosen. Itās one of the best features of a sequencer that Iāve seen on my life. I would love to see that in an electron sequencer. ( At least my Digitone OG donāt have that feature.
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Iāve just bought a push 2, so the answer this month will be push 2.
Knowing me, next month probably not so much.
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Korg EMX-1.
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Not 8 simultaneous synth engines though but rather three ā not saying you said that but someone else might get it wrong. A reasonable limitation when you consider its size 
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I thought about M8 but Tracker Mini won easy for me. I donāt see how youāll fit drums + enough synths with only 8 tracks in total. This depends on genre of course. But for me, having up to 16 tracks on the Tracker Mini since the 2.0 patch (albeit 3 concurrent synth engines) made the choice easy for me personally, atleast with knowing what I know
Also, the perc engine only takes up one voice despite being a fully polyphonic drum kit, itās so good 
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To be super clear: There are 8 tracks for samples. And 8 tracks that can be used for synth/midi. There are three synthesisers types you can play on those 8 synth/midi channels.
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Has no one mentioned the 1010 Bento yet?
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Push 3 & Ableton Move
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If you want to hear this (admittedly on a monosynth), I have a track over in another thread (right at the bottom of this post - 1:38 onwards). The track you hear there has a synth solo that was made with the random note in scale fill mode. Itās good fun.
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and doesnāt allow Resampling which is Hi Larry itās us.
but yeah I still want one
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Roland MC 303
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Sorry, Iām not a sampler aficionado so I might misunderstand this, but you can bounce any sound in the sequence to a new sample whenever on the Tracker Mini.
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My push 2 often makes my digitakt 2 feel obsolete to be honest, so I can only imagine the possibilities of the push 3 SA.
yes I make use of that capability on the regular sized tracker butā¦ and vitally importantly for any sampler, it doesnāt allow you to internally resample the master out or performance fx.
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I think the pluses and minuses of the Push 3, is that it can be almost anything as you can write or buy max4live devices to do almost anything.
After being a Push user from back in around 2016, 2025 looks like it will finally be the year that Push finally fulfils its promise for me.
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Based on what people say about the MC303, wouldnāt the Aira compact T8 be considered a groovebox?
I have a lot of grooveboxes but I would say deluge is probably at the top. But I love all grooveboxes and they are all so different and give different results. I own a YT channel based on tutorials and thatās why I own so many. So I like them all and say thereās really no best. But if youāre good at composing music and sound design, any groovebox should be awesome. If you are really creative, you should be able to create new genres of music with any groovebox.