Digitakt Limiiting?
Sure, many users like this nice little unit: 
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Are you bummed you canāt splice loops on it? I like to sample 15 seconds drum loops or so and think it would be great to be able to split them and donāt wanna do it on another device. Yarg, Iām leaning back and forth between them. Thanks though Iāll check this out
The Digi series is the ideal machine for any ADD inflicted people- is ideas/inspiration hits you constantly- you need the Digitakt
The Digitakt is like writing poems, while the Octatrack is like writing full stories
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By splice do you mean slice?
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Hereās our latest adventures in live OT slicing, might be of interestā¦
The digitakt, digitone and octatrack are the third, fourth and fifth elektron boxes Iāve owned, and the three I have at the moment, with the OT having arrived earlier this week. With the little boxes, Iāve been immediately up and running, making some highly complex pieces with all kinds of spice, and time with the manual has been supplemental at most.
The OT is like a spaceship. I know I will get to a point where I understand it well enough to templatize and flow on it, but itās gonna take months, and so far I spend more time setting the thing up than jamming. Iām very excited by the potential, as I fully understand how much power Iām dealing with there, but if Iād bought it as my first Elektron I might be too pissed to ever buy another one. Very low ADD Gratification Index.
I feel like Iāve gotten further than a lot of people with the ol Octatrack but I feel like Iām still unraveling it and have a long way to go. It hasnāt frustrated me in a long time and I understand what Iām doing with it and it works, but I keep learning new stuff all the time and itās been three years, itās awesome reallyā¦
I just told Ryan the other day when you look at it you would never imagine the things thatās it capable of. It has an odd way of capabilities almost āhidingā and totally non apparent, and then one day your like, wait a minute if I set this parameter to this and this toggle to that, then this happens! No way!
Itās still happening to me years laterā¦
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I have no doubt that itās going to open up for me if I remain patient with it. Iāve been reading with interest your thread about hacking up the live pickup machine tracks.
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Iām telling you man I think Iām only running it at 5 to 10 percent of what itās capable ofā¦ 
I donāt doubt it. I liked the cabcurio vid that suggested you focus on one of its capabilities at a time, which is what you seem to be doing, and what Iām trying to do. Itās stupid easy to go down a rabbit hole of throwing the kitchen sink at everything you run through it.
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Iām also really enjoying your writeups about your OT-adventures, but just 5-10 percent? Is there any dark matter hidden within nobody has every seen yet? 
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Yes, I believe soā¦
I canāt speak of it right now, Iāve written about it before. It all adds up, Iāve never seen or done anything close to what Iāve grokkedā¦ Think 8 midi tracks with different track lengths, arps, lfos, etc. sequencing synths coming back in and why not mixed with some vocals or something with a mixer back into the four inputs and then a chain of sampling/resampling/realtime warping with multiple flex tracks, where again the recording and playing tracks have different legths than the incoming sequence. Sequences and sampling/remix programmed to harmonize and work but ever evolving because of all the track length differences. Tons of different recorder trigs and combinations of what is being sampled and what is being played per step x 8. Thru track or two with Lfos on input selection. Tons of plocks everywhere, 24 lfoās going on the audio side and the midi side. Possible midi loopback or other external midi coming in and modulating the arp, lfos, and other parameters. Conditional trigs all over the place. 2 fx on every track, master track with sequenced plocks. The arranger changing mutes, scenes, patterns/parts on a basis of step lengths, arranged in intricate waysā¦ Scenes. Scenesā¦ The fader. The faderā¦
Tons of patterns and combinations of these, 64 parts, the arrangers jumps wherever it wants when it wants!
It just keeps going really, I wonder if it would explode if you tried to do it?
All taken slowly one by one so it actually works.
Press playā¦
I guess I spoke of itā¦ Haha!
Iām sure I missed some stuffā¦ Modes, delay control, live recording, retrig, etcā¦
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The OT has 8 recorder tracks that can record any combination of the 4 inputs and or tracks per step on each recorder track. The flex playback tracks using sample locks can play any one of these recordings per step on any track. Think about that for a secondā¦
The per step play trigs can have any amount plocks from all the edit pages and fx, and it can target just a slice of any of the 8 recordings. Most of the playback of the recordings happens as theyāre being recorded as long as you donāt tell the OT to play a part of the recording that hasnāt happened yet or its resampling. Itās rediculous.
You also can have streams of sampleā>flex warp+fxā>resampleāflex warp+fx furtherā>resample etc., with combos of other tracks and fresh samples or slices being added to the recordingsā¦ It goes on and on the combinationsā¦
Thereās other areas too that have a lot of possibilities when you look into them, thatās just the recordersā¦
And then on top of any idea thereās always scenes, hahaā¦
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I know what you mean.
ā¦ and the real art is to keep all that stuff from becoming just a great plain cacophony (this is where it almost ever ends when mixing too much randomness/unpredictability at once)
think of the post-acquisition regretā¦
whatās worse or more likely? Getting the OT and a short while later hankering after a DT instead, or vice versa?
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Oh itād be kind of like an insane math problem to make to make it all work rythmicly and harmoniously, and you could just go on and on for a long time figuring it out really.
Iām happy with my 5-10% proximation or whatever it is.
If I could stop time and not need to eat or sleep and somehow had endless OT programming motivation, Iād give it whirl, and of course post the resultsā¦
Edit: I was just referring to how I feel Iām only pushing the OT like %10, not how skilled youād have to be to employ the remaining percent in a musical way. The possibility exists for some super deep āalgorithm funkā 
Haha. Nice one. Sounds romantic
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I wonder what it sounds like after doing all the things you described. Maybe it will blow up 
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Depends on whether youāre the type of person to always be lusting after something better. If you are, then itās probably better to try the OT first, realise that itās too much for you, then make a conscious and happy move to the DT.
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Yes i meant slice. It looks like Digitakt has some great editing capabilities but not auto slicing. Iāll check out the link you sent