I figured out what I really want after doing some experiments this morning. While the digitone is great for sound design I find it somewhat limiting in terms of the style / warmth of sounds I want to go for. This can be improved by having effects pedals.
I have a digitone at home but am unsure if I like the sound design process on this device. However I created a base sound -> sampled it into the digitakt and was able to introduce more LFOs, further reverb and distortion to make it more twisted, however the digitakt lacks stereo sampling which I would love to create width on top of my beats.
Therefore I think what I would need on top of my digitone and digitakt is an octatrack at some point so I can stereo sample VSTs and Digitone there and create atmospheres to layer on top of my Digitakt (drum machine). This would be the perfect setup for me.
The only thing I am unsure about is that do I generally like the sound design process of the digitone and wonder if I would like A4 better. I’ll give it more time.