The DT wasn’t designed to work as a live looper. You can sample and trim it down to size, but it’s a very manual process: because you can’t specify the length of the sample you want to record, any looping you might try to do would rely on you being very precise when you both start and stop capturing your sample.
No, the DT’s sample time is constrained to 33 seconds.
It sounds to me that this would be your best bet, as the OT is fantastic for both live looping and handling longer stems. The form factor is for sure different, and although the OT workflow really does stand apart from the Digi boxes, the main reason for that is because the OT can do so many different things. At the end of the day, it’s still an Elektron box, with the Elektron sequencer, so you’ll be able to learn it, especially if you have targeted intentions with it.
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