Not a review, but I wanted to make a video going over some of my favorite things about the Digitakt 2 now that I’m feeling comfortable on it. Also, some reasons why it will likely replace my Octatrack for my live sets. At least in the short term 
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what a great vid. you share a lot of my sentiments, it’s such a great box.
it’d be great to know more about how you’re using grid mode and preparing samples for live purposes. if you’re up for doing more videos on it I’d be interested for sure.
Nice to here your thoughts on the DT2…led me to watch your live set “No End In Time” - excellent stuff!
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Honestly it’s more or less what I showed in this video. If I need a baseline in a song, I play it live on the keyboard and record as an 8 bar loop. Set to grid, slice and dice, etc. If I need a lead line, or want guitar in a song, I play those in real time for 8 bars, set to grid, etc.
About the only thing I don’t record in real time is the drums, those I use single drum hits and the sequencer. Maybe some drum break samples I’ll layer underneath using the grid machine the same way, but that’s about it.
Thanks! Glad you liked it, I definitely put a LOT of work into that one but the DT2 made it easy luckily.
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cool, doesn’t sound video worthy then!
are you pre-processing all the drums used and setting break lengths so the grid is on point? I’m trying to get an idea of the live aspect/prep.
I don’t buy it…
How can someone who says have been using the OT “for years” say that sampling, even sampling of live playing, it’s better on the Digitakt???
Seriously? No quantize record and play? No fade in and out? No Record trigs? No one, one-two or hold? No mono, 2-mono, 1 -stereo, 2-stereo or the whole band input options?
I don’t buy it… there is a lot of things where Digitakt supersedes Octatrack, even mark 1 Digitakts, but sampling is not one of those.
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I don’t buy it…
How can anyone who watched the video not understand the OP finds the DT2 an improvement for his workflow ?
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Well, now He has to hit a button in the middle of the performance on the synth, while on the OT He could just put a record trig and focus only the performance.
It is more work. I don’t buy it…
Why don’t you tell me what music box is best for me, and why my current preference is wrong?
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Nope, since I using the grid machine for the breakbeat loops it will set the slice point equally throughout the sample. If there’s small gaps after each slice I just go with it. Adds character, and 9/10 everything still sounds on beat. Easy enough to shape things with the amp envelope too if I need to.
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Sooooooo …… you don’t buy it you’re saying? 
FWIW I’m not sampling during a performance, this is capturing audio material during the writing phase. For that the DT2 is way quicker for my needs, I could care less if it’s got less sampling features if I’m not using them. The actual process is WAY faster for me than I demonstrated in this video too, had to slow way down to talk through it.
PS, as i showed in this video, I already bought it too.
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Sir you are forgetting the core tenet of elektronauts - unless the box works exactly the way you imagine it should, it’s actually a horrible impediment to your artistry, impossible to use and an affront to god that elektron would forgo such obvious features that samplers way back in the 1870s had 
Excellent vid my dude
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