For something like a model samples. “Display? What display?”
For something as menu divy as the Octatrack, absolutely not. Anything that you can’t take out and enjoy the moment you get it would be a convenience and celebration that wouldn’t be worth it unless the price was a REAL bargain
Is this a joke?
That one sold for (more than?) 175 pounds which is totally crazy
No
The funny thing is that the owner kicked it with his foot. (Footprints on OT).
For the first few weeks of my Octatrack usage I didn’t realize it came in the box, so I was just playing the box for the first few tracks. Then one of my friends saw what I was doing and informed me that the real octatrack was inside.
Of course, I just thought he meant that in a zen kinda way. So I was like, “you’re right” and kept on playing the box for another couple of months.
It wasn’t until I was playing my first octatrack only set when he got frustrated, stormed up on stage and removed the octatrack from its box.
I was like “wtf? What do all these buttons do?!”
People aren’t kidding when they say the Octatrack has a steep learning curve!
Dude you were using the Octatrack in the box? Does that even count as DAWless???
Somehow there’s a way to continue joking about how my computer is still in its box, but I can’t figure out how to thread that needle.
Whoever coined that must not have been getting the good deals.
Ah I was asking because others said that they had to do a lot of menu diving when working with the OT.
Did I get that right? You wired a PO display to an OT? Do you have pictures of this?!? This sounds interesting 
As far as i know PO displays are not generic and are made by TE specificly for the type of pocket operator that they are built into. I have a PO33 with a broken screen as well and you can’t replace that yourself because you won’t get a spare screen in the first place.
Just wanted to say … currently it seems like I am not going to buy the thing and there are other interested buyers anyways. If I’ll buy it I’ll keep you updated and also will post before/after repair picks Thank you all for your nice answers 
This is a sound strategy if your goal is to obtain an OT and make music.
If you want to learn to repair broken audio gear, keep your eyes open for the cheapest broken stuff possible. IDK if old analog hifi gear is still cheap, but that’s a good starting point. Under-loved synths are another good choice.
Get some practicing with desoldering and repairs and then when a premium piece shows up you will be better able to assess your own ability to do repairs.
“in a zen kind of way” ahahahaha 
Did someone say Zen?
In Zen Buddhism, the keisaku (Japanese: 警策, Chinese: 香板, xiāng bǎn ; kyōsaku in the Soto school) is a flat wooden stick or slat used during periods of meditation to remedy sleepiness or lapses of concentration. This is accomplished through a strike or series of strikes, usually administered on the meditator’s back and shoulders in the muscular area between the shoulder and the spine. The keisaku itself is thin and somewhat flexible; strikes with it, though they may cause momentary sting if performed vigorously, are not injurious.
Are we about to start talking about chips now?
I wouldn’t mind … but I would like to ask again … what if the mcu/processor of the OT breaks? Would elektron be able to repair this or would the unit be bricket and more like the doorstopper that was sold on ebay? Has anyone done this via elektron and how was your experience (time/money/success?)
This is really solid advice! Thanks!
Of all the components to go bad, embedded processors are some of the least likely components to do so. You could probably get a person to reflow yours cheaply if there were intermittencies between chip and mainboard.
For the earlier systems like MnM with DSP issue warnings, pretty sure those with the issues were produced in the transition to RoHS, when unleaded solder formulas were in their infancy and production tooling hadn’t been perfected.
It wasn’t just these devices, I had to deal with the nightmare of laptop discrete onboard video in one of my roles and stuff like the Xbox 360 “red ring of death”.
I would absolutely not worry about that. it is an extremely uncommon mode of failure.
Strong second. This is good advice. Learning to do some basic repairs is a really good thing to do, but an Octatrack is not the thing to start on.
