Yes, I clean it up entirely, with soap and sold it cheap. I couldn’t keep it because the cat claim it, it could happen again. The new owner didn’t have a cat.
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Amazing!!! Jealousy sneaks in no matter how early you try to dodge it.
If only there was a cover for that, it would be less shocking to use.
The DT-2 is still an amazing groovebox and really adds a great complement, when it comes to sound design, and sequencing.
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That is maybe the best written post I’ve ever seen.
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I owned a Roland mc 303, a mc 808, an electribe EMX1, a model Cycle, a DN1, a DT2 + many synths and DAWs and the most incredible groovebox association I never had is DN2+TV. All I wanted in groovebox, even more, unexpected finds.
I very happy with this combo !
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Another contender is the Woovebox due to this level of attention to detail:
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for a sec i thought the name of the gear was Lo-Tek Larry, and just laughed like i dunno 'bout anything else, but the name checks out
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I’ve never owned one, but by far the most impressive thing i’ve ever seen on this forum is someone knocking out tune after tune on an OP-Z. It was like a cool mixtape and I think the user had chained a few projects together while jamming along with the fx.
I do think the best gear is the one that speaks to you, not necessarily in a schizophrenic way (although that might work too). A true artist will find a way to express themselves with that medium.
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my favorite portable small form factor is my Erica Synths Sonic Potions LXR02, the projects load fast and morph feature works like a cool fader to transition to different stuff. I use that with my TX-6 for live techno jams. Easy to carry and use and the sliders are fun for live performance. Then I would say my Digitone OG as it also is small. Most club venues have limited table space.
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Someone earlier in the thread said it’s worth considering grooveboxes as devices on an axis of immediacy versus depth. For immediate grooveboxes, the OP-Z succeeds because TE fully committed to trimming out unnecessary features while leaving enough functionality that you can push the OP-Z into doing just about whatever you want. I think contextually, it’s better to consider the OP-Z as a near-perfect example of focussed UX design and secondarily a very good immediate groovebox as a consequence of that design vision.
It’s interesting to consider the OP-Z as a balancing act between minimalism, capability, and fun hipster-friendly performance gimmicks like the punch in effects (which unironically expand the device’s functionality by providing a low-friction mechanism for variations and fills), the tape channel (which by default is set up as a low-friction way to insert variations and fills), and the master channel (that supports the device again by providing musically useful transpositions that can be triggered by the sequencer so you can move beyond the OP-Z’s 16 step sequencer limitation).
I am looking forward to the next batch of Dirtywave M8s, though. 
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This is a joke btw , just in case somebody gets gas for the orange demon.
If you don’t know , it’s basically an MC505 inside , there was an freeware software editor I vaguely remember to access the mc505 functionality.
My experience, besides it being UAF, it is surprisingly tactile , I enjoyed using it , but it sounded too clean and processed.
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Spectralis sounds so nice though , wonderful filters from what I remember hearing
But honestly the mc707 is my fav
lots of people love the MC909
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It was, is just as close to greatness as it was far from it.
Rex support, Freeze/overdub, more FX, menu system overhaul, and a diet of 7.5 kilos (9kg total 
) and it’d be worthy of the thread title.
A German build: ike steal tank, power and the klang, but somehow they completely neglect the third part of the trinity: “the romance of interfacing with the instrument.” 
…(hey, I am looking at you too, Jomox)
I wrote dozens and dozens of posts for feature requests at the time. We all expected it to become the dream unit. I really feel they could have at least implemented my menu system overhaul & shortcuts, as that needed no fancy coding but would have made the workflow fluid (everything within two clicks away) before the project went under.
I know Jörgen Schaaf, the head engineer at Radikal Technologies, posted recently “what should I do next, a new synth” comment somewhere on social media.
And the correct answer is: This! It was/is your (Quasimidi) legacy… for Christ’s sake you were so close, but there are some essential changes that are needed… get the team together and we’ll work it out
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Push 3, very immediate and also almost endless depth if you need it.
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OP-Z?? But like put the OP-Z against the Digitone2 and im sorry - the Digi is far more useful and better sounding.
Better sounding? You mean the A/Ds
Sorry i was a little vague…For the DNII excels the OP-Z in many ways - a larger sound palette is the most obvious one. Yeah the OP-Z has a cool sequencer and more ‘neat’. But if this was a desert island gear question - id take the DNII
Try putting the Digitone in your pocket. Or sampling on it.
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If you did it wouldn’t bend.
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90% of grooveboxes do not fit in a pocket
Thats a different question - whats the neatest groovebox