I currently have an mduw as well as analog four. I was thinking of trying out a rytm to see if it was a better fit sound wise for me as well as more sampling space, but then I’d miss the midi control I get from the MD, now I’m thinking octratrack.
Would you rather have a mduw and octratrack, or A4 and octatrack? For those of you who have one pair or the other how do you find yourself using them, in studio and live?
(I understand, my decision should be based more on what I want to do with them, but I don’t know what would be better a solid drum machine and sampler that can hold synth parts, or a solid sampler that I would use for synth and drum parts, and a synth?)
I own an MDUW, MM, A4, and an OT. Personally I prefer to OT over the MD but it’s not because I think it’s a better drum machine. The OT is extremely versatile so it’s difficult to say what it is I really like about it but I do know that I’d probably miss it a lot if I didn’t have it. It’s a more modern machine than the MD, and it feels it. The OT is an incredible sound design tool, a great live performance tool, an interesting synthesizer (yep), and a great drum machine, it’s also, ya know, a sampler too
If you need a drum machine then the MD is probably the better choice, but the OT can certainly hold its own in this field and do so much more. I don’t think you can really compare the OT to anything else, it’s quite unique.
I agree to milescosmos that the OT is unique. The OT as the center piece, a good synth module (e.g. Virus) is nearly all you need. Any drum machine you prefer on top, why not?
I have a Virus TI, Octatrack and recently bought a Rytm.
I used to use the Octatrack for drums before I got the Rytm and I sometimes miss the clean sound you get from sampled drums.
I sometimes get the feeling when using the Rytm with other instruments that it would be better to just create the whole tune on the Rytm. It has 12 tracks after all.
The one thing I wish the MD had that the more modern Elektron boxes have - microtiming. Being able to nudge trigs forward and backward is huge in my workflow, something I really miss when I go back to the MD to lay down a beat.
Ended up swapping the A4 for an octatrack, just got it today. I’ve gone through half the manual skipping the sampling parts which I plan on going over when I start using that function, I have to say, so far everything seems very logical and well thought out.
