I used the T1 with Ableton for awhile at home. In Ableton, it was doing all sorts of drums and synths in the box. I didn’t know if I’d be able to use it live. My previous solo sets were a little more prepared with samples in the Octatrack.
The Syntakt is what really let me bring the T1 to stage. It’s drums, bass, percussion, synth all in one package. I have started incorporating more sliced acoustic drum samples, loaded in the OT (like I used to do more of), but the OT is not sequenced by the T1 for me. Just the Syntakt.
As far as getting my head around it, not much. It was almost immediate for me, but everyone is a little different.