I also love the Octa if only for the Transition trick. I re-bought it just for this feature. I really like the RPG analogy, that is my fav thing about it now. I find I am most creative when learning new tools and experimenting. The Octa is so deep you could keep learning new stuff forever. Although it can be tedious to program, I look at it like a modular sampler. All the stuff you could want a sampler to do, but you have to program it to do that first, and hopefully customize some tricks along the way. It can be a sampler, Daw, mixer or anything in between.