Just use it with the pre-loaded samples and have fun. I think they’re great, and you can quickly destroy and transform all of them into something completely else. I also the sample transfer and management, but DT II is powerful enough that you don’t have to care that much and still make music with it. Or you could just route something else through it, record some samples while making music, chop it and use it.
Otherwise, just sell it and don’t buy anymore gear, if you’re not using it. I also don’t buy anything that has a “workflow” other than Elektron that I’d have to learn (meaning something with a sequencer etc. that I’d have to learn, not necessarily a sound engine). If it’s too much for you to learn DT II’s new features, sell it or just it without learning them, or learn them bit by bit, like people are always saying about OT. What did you buy it for in the first place? Maybe use it only for that.
In the early days of the pandemic I was laid off my job and then I started receiving that sweet US pandemic relief money. Needless to say, I went a bit wild with eurorack purchases. I spent countless hours on modular grid building my first case and then searching Craigslist and Reverb to acquire all of the modules. I never attempted to learn or use any of the modules as I acquired them, instead waiting until my case was completely filled. Once that happened, I spent about a weekend reading up on everything and made a few patches, but after that I pretty much never touched it again.
I still have my case of eurorack, and I hold onto it thinking that one day I’ll be inspired to learn it, but it’s been four years now, and it just sits on a shelf taunting me. I do feel guilty having spent so much time and money acquiring something that doesn’t get any use, so I think I need to finally let go of it.
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Unrelated to this thread but I think eurorack could’ve worked for me if had gone in a different direction: purchasing less menu-divey digital sampling and processing modules. I can already do so much of that stuff with the Octatrack, and in a more straight forward way, so my case feels pretty redundant. That being said, I learned my lesson and won’t be diving back into something like eurorack anytime soon, and if I do it’ll be a slower process of acquiring and learning as I go.
