Hardware for arranging and finishing tracks?

[Flymo]

I started this thread on a similar topic

Why do so few grooveboxes have thoughtful workflows around laying out a whole song?

Many people feel stuck in the rut of only making short loops 1-4 bars long with their hardware. It’s fun, but also tricky to get out of: endlessly noodling interactively around variations on that 1-4 bar loop, but never arranging a song, with a beginning, a middle, an end, and different sections with light and shade along the way. I think this is down to groovebox design and I’d be interested to hear views on which do it well, but also why so few grooveboxes have thoughtful workflows around lay…

I think there’s a real market for a device that can capture quantised audio clips, quickly and easily with a single click; then let you play them back; with the ability to create an arrangement.

I say that because I find I make fun fragments on various devices (some have song mode, some don’t). And then I want to arrange those fragments into a longer piece with begining middle and end.

Easy quantised audio clip capture and playback could be added in to any number of existing sampler devices, or be its own thing. A few devices come close, but it’s always a bit of a hassle and workarounds. It’d ideally be in a device with ok EQ fx etc.

(I guess MPC live 3 kind of does it now, as of very recently. I’ve not tried it yet, and I will, but to me modern mpc is a horrible UI generally, it’s neither touch screen nor buttons but a tiresomely unpredictable mix of the two, moving back and forth so much and so inconsistently that I’d rather just have an iPad and be done with it… Also mpc live is rly big…)