I love song mode and I’m using it to compose. Or if I compose in Ableton, I’m replicating the arrangement in song mode for live tweaking. But it gets a bit overwhelming with a lot of tracks. It’s easier to try out stuff in a DAW and then program it on the Elektrons if it works.
Overbridge is the answer 
We can just say we use 2 DAWs, and no synths. 
That’s true.
I used to avoid using a computer in my music, since my day job is in IT, and it used to feel like work. But I’ve discovered that I need to put in the work to make the kind of music that I want to make, and there are no shortcuts. So the computer wins there.
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I meant that tools are here in the boxes as well in case one wants to arrange/rearrange, keeping the flexibility of the internal sequencer.
As an OT user, I’d rather spend time with the arranger than export stems track by track to a DAW where I would lose the flexibility of scenes, live tweaking, Fills, conditional trigs (unless i would export all the possible states of a track), etc.
That’s very specific to the OT as it doesn’t have Overbridge though.
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