[quote=““Random Dude””]
now that is something i didn’t know, thanks, mate! :]
since AR was my first Elektron, i quietly assumed than OT would have a similar kind of limit.
and yes, there is a metric ton of stuff i forgot to mention in my blurp. both machines have way too many features to list and compare them. and both have quite a few limits, but so far in my experience all these limits actually… feel right. they tend to inspire you to try to work around them, do things differently and get some unexpected but great results.
but running out of p-locks?.. you must be doing something totally awesome ;] i don’t remember if the 48 p-locks limit is shared between performance and scene modes on AR, or if it’s 48 each, but so far i never ran out of them. i, too, try to be conservative with them. and i also switch patterns frequently. and since the scenes / performances are bound to kits, and patterns can use different kits, it wasn’t a problem so far. it wasn’t even a conscious workaround, just a matter of my approach to performing. i just wanted the same pad to affect the sound differently as i go further.
that’s at least my approach
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good point, I probably do go overboard on p-locks, but hey, that’s what they’re for 
to be fair, i’ve had the OT for so long that it is natural to me to abuse the scene p-locks as they are, indeed, limitless. So I’m used to just going from page to page and locking everything that makes sense. Then the sweeping commences
so what i’m trying to say is that you don’t feel that limitation because you know it’s there, and you work accordingly. If you were used to a workflow without that limitation, I think you’d feel it, too, if you were then “reduced” to 48 p-locks. Don’t get me wrong, I personally don’t think it’s too small a number, and we’re talking about subjective things, anyways.
in fact, i don’t use performances on the AR as much as scenes in the OT, because usually, I get started on performances, and then reach the p-lock limit and think to myself : ah well, that’s that then. And I record what I have and move on happily. I suppose it makes it faster when writing. I could get lost for hours on the OT playing with scenes !
finally, just because it has lots of p-locks, doesn’t mean it’s awesome. usually it sounds more like scary rattle of doom
