You’re pretty well covered in the sampling department, with the OT in place.
What I think that the Digitakt, or anything like it, could contribute to, is the immediacy of such a machine. That it’s so different in how you play it, that it generates ideas you’d never come up with using the high-end stuff. The most immediate Electribe I’ve ever used is the ES-1 MKII, where I managed to put together entire live sets from its meager 90sec sample memory. But it was just in the way it worked, the way you could approach it, that made it such a brilliant piece of kit. If the storage solution hadn’t been such a nuisance, I would’ve kept it.
I’m hoping the Digitakt might be the Electribe for the Elektrons. If it touches on those instant synapses that Elektron hasn’t yet reached for, then features will have nothing to do with what the Digitakt is or isn’t.
If you’d get a Pyramid and an ES2, you’d still be in Complicated Country. It would add nothing new, since whatever they’d bring in features and palette, wouldn’t make all that much of a difference anyway. There’s not a lot you can’t do with an OT and an AK, after all.
But if you threw in something in the mix that made you approach your work differently, to go between the deeper structures and designs of the OT and AK, to the wham bam immediate slam of the Digitakt - notice I’m presuming that’s what it’s gonna be - then it doesn’t matter if the OT can do all the things the Digitakt can, and then some.
It still doesn’t play the same. That’s the key. We’re musicians. No matter how we’re trained, where we’re schooled, what we make and don’t make - we play. And electronic instruments encourage different kind of play.
This is where the Digitakt will shine, I believe. This is why I think it’ll hold its own even in a complete Elektron rig.