Agreed. Before spending a bunch of money and hours on more gear I’d experiment with the different ways the MnM lets you modulate pitch/timbre. To me the less time you spend learning gear is more time you get to spend making music.
IMO “analog” sounding stuff has less to do with warmth and more to do with using lfos and envelopes to subtly vary the sound of each individual note. Chorus/Flange/Vibrato can be done a bunch of different ways on the MnM and go a long way in making the machines feel more alive. I spent the last couple of years chasing boutique pedals only to sell them all in favor of the built in elektron ones — they’re super utilitarian but sound really good to my ears. Plus you don’t have to break your compositional workflow to use them.
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