Best machinedrum pair (digitone or monomachine)

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Hi fellas. This is my first post on this forum, so thanks for everything and sorry if I’m doing something wrong.

So, I got a machinedrum UW Mk2 for a decent price here in Brazil. I’m in love with it. I can see endless possibilities and it really lighted the elektron spark on me.

My current setup is just a machinedrum and a Korg Minilogue. I would love go get another piece of gear to be able to make music hands on and completely away from a computer.

What I like to do in my music: crazy rhythms, droid synths, effects, ambient stuff basically.

I love the monomachine looks and would be cool to have on next to my machinedrum. But it’s expensive and kinda hard to get (getting even harder). I like the sound I hear on youtube demos.

I also like how the digitone sounds and, from reading, it looks like it have a cooler (better?) sequencer and better effects.

Any inputs on one machine over the another to pair with the machinedrum? I think I just like to hear peoples opinions on these before I jump into something.

Thanks

Wagner

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The digitone sequencer could give you microtiming and other new sequencer perks, which your machinedrum lacks. The sound of it ranges from metallic to really clean. You could also consider the A4 mk1, which is usually cheaper than both of those and can give you analog roundness that your MD lacks.

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Digitone would probably be better because it has more voices and a better sequencer. You’ll need that to sequence your Korg. MnM is a classic! If you can get one it will be a great investment but it lacks the micro timing and conditional trigs. The Digitone will really open up and give you an organic groove to your music, plus the Digitone sounds gorgeous!

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A digitone is easier to get anyway. The digitone is a very very very capable and good to program box. You can really do nothing wrong if you like that sounds.
If you sink a bit into it you can make whole tracks with it (yes!), and if by any chance you can get a monomachine, you can sequence it with the digitone to overcome limitations.

Well, I waited one and a half year until a monomachine popped up. If you by any chance have the possibility to get a good priced monomachine snack it immediately as they are rare like the rarest pokemon, and very intense with its different synth models (digitone->fm, monomachine->sid, formant, analog modelling, smol fm,…)

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Thanks guys. Seens like a digitone is the way to go since I already have a somehow capable analog synth with the minilogue and the MnM is harder and more expensive to have.

I’ll buy a digitone and let some money on the drawer waiting for the time a MnM finds itself to my desk.

Thanks again and let’s make great music :slight_smile:

Wagner