Happy Sunday all. I’m going to keep this endless conversation alive with a few questions as well. I promise I had a good dig around the forum first and watched TONS of Youtube videos as well, I’m not just being lazy!
I’ve recently got my Digitone about a month ago and I’m enjoying making music (well, noisy techno loops) more than I have for years so I feel “vindicated” that the cost (vs software) is worth it. I’m now debating adding a second box and I’m stuck on the usual OT vs DT thing as well. I think I can live without Overbridge as for me it’s a nice bonus but I’m trying to avoid getting tethered back to the computer. To be more specific, I think I’d be perfectly happy to just record a single stereo output either by getting a soundcard (I don’t believe OT has any USB audio capability) or by feeding the OT through the Digitone and doing it that way.
Long story short - if I wanted to get started by “just” using the OT very much like a Digitakt and using drum one-shots etc, is the workflow not as bad as people suggest?! I tried reading the OT manual a bit yesterday and I’m happy to admit that I started t get lost quickly around the project/pattern/set/whatever architecture. If I’ve got thousands of drum one-shots in nested folders on my laptop and I drop the whole thing onto the CF card is it easy for me to start browsing those drums, loading them into tracks, do sample/parameter locks etc on multiple tracks to use the OT as a one-shot drum machine like a DT? I’m asking because this seems like it would be a good place to start and to help prevent the OT brain overload that everyone seems to suffer from. If I can do that and get enjoyment from it then I can work my way up from there.
I really love the idea of the live looping to allow me to take more simple patterns and songs and turn them into more experimental and interesting performances but I appreciate that will take some learning time. I can live with that if I can also get started easily and get some immediate fun as well. I’m not the most patient person though, and I need to be honest with myself.
I have to say that I’d probably feel annoyed if they released a new OT (with Overbridge and all that jazz) soon after I got a MK2 but all the stuff I read here seems to suggest that it’s VERY unlikely. A new device perhaps, but that’s a different story.
The other side of this is, of course, that I just make the most of my MS+DN setup and be patient. I reckon we’re about due a new Elektron machine in the Digi range but that’s pure speculation based on past release schedule. Probably just wishful thinking give the 2020 that we’ve all had.