At the moment, I like to drift along with the sequencer running on a borrowed Monologue. The tweaking and being surprised is great fun. Now I would like to buy into more sound variety and I am tempted by Digitakt or Digitone because of their immediacy. Sure the DT is sample based, but filters and LFO seem to offer great variety. For what I‘ve listened, saw and read to so far lets me lean towards the DT.
For effects and long samples/loops I have the SP-404 MK2. DN was my first idea, but am not sure if it is too limited track-wise.
I also have an MPC One and a midi keyboard, but the MPC is so cluttered and annoying that I would definitely like to part with it. The SP 404, on the other hand, was a true revelation in its directness
Welcome to the forum. I highly recommend Digitone for this purpose, as long as you like its sound palette and are comfortable learning some FM. I don’t think the track or voice count is too limited. There is a huge variety of lovely, evolving sounds you can create while letting a sequence do its thing. You can start in one place and end up somewhere totally different just by slowly changing parameters. I find it very satisfying.
I’m definitely biased but Digitone 100%
It is the supreme drifting machine…, and in my opinion even more immediate and flowy then the DT because of no sample/memory management.
Everything is just there and does whatever you want.
Ok, did a deep-dive again and ended up with getting a Syntakt, best combination for beats and synth for my needs.
I liked sounds and possibilities more that those of the DN.
Samples may be triggered from the Sp-404 if needed.
Syntakt is really approachable and immediate- I did not assume to get my head around it that fast
