I know, parallel universe twice removed.
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Hey Optofonik, not trying to ruffle your feathers here. I would say that there are even a lot of differences between the different Elektron boxes I own in terms of performance capabilities, specialties and restrictions. Master/slave relationships, audio routing etc are a big consideration in my live setups and can differ depending on the project, both with a pure Elektron setup and in combination with gear from other manufacturers.
But I answered your question anyways, in case it helps somehow.
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5 Elektrons, no Akai
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5 Elektrons here and no Akai . Still, the new mpc live 2 looks very nice and with great features if u have Eurorack stuff .
- Allways love the old school hip-hop and house guys that still work in a 1000/2000 or 3000 old mpc’s. Respect
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whos playing show rn lol
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I prefer Elektron and Maschine atm, but had a MPC2500 for a while (also used live).
Improvization-focused 3-4 drum decks approach: 1 pattern with 1 bar for the whole set, half tempo to get 2 bars out of the single bar, 64 drum kits, 4 tracks, live recording on the fly, live erase, live replace and clear page to get rid of items that repeated often enough, plus a DJ mixer to combine the 4 tracks.
In the meantime I switched to Maschine for a similar approach inside Ableton with OT-like HP/LP filters per track.
The main advantage of MPC/Maschine is the easy layering of kits without the cut-off notes you get when doing this on Elektrons… of course you can layer several Elektron devices but on an MPC or Maschine you can easily use several drumkits in parallel on the same device.
One of my current main approaches is to jam on Maschine with 3 layered drum kits, record this in Ableton, dump it to the OT and continue layering there, with those nice handy amp and filter envelopes, many LFO’s etc. Card streaming is a large plus, so you can also stream elements from large jam-session recordings.
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