Advice:
Pack it all away as if ready for sale. If you feel like making music, see which instruments you reach for first.
Reason:
The problems are not related to the relative merits of the individual instruments.
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Of those four… Machinedrum and Digitone easily. Both uniquely different and versatile. I had them paired for a while (it’s now RYTM and DN) and felt they worked really well together without too much overlap.
I never really got on with the Monomachine or Digitakt
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keep the Monomachine and Digitone.
then sell the Machinedrum, for a good price, to me.
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keep your favorite sampler paired with the peak!
sell everything else except the one or 2 machines that you love the most. just for the pleasure 
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sell them all and then as you box them up, you’ll work it out.
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I had them all.
Sold mono machine and machine drum as I preferred to have money in bank / pay mortgage.
They were in very good condition and I rarely used them.
Kept digitakt and tone , more modern connections (usb etc ) / smaller / cheaper.
Slightly simpler setup and easier to pick up if I don’t use them for a while.
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this would be sort of a difficult choice for me. probably what would make me choose to keep the DN and the DT is the fact that they have the most up to date features compared to what you get on the MM and the MD although things can still be sequenced via MIDI and that somehow solves that; having said that though…well, maybe i would still keep the MD and the DN, which kinda gets close to MM territory soundwise. with both OT and MPC you should be pretty much ok in terms of sampling…so yeah, keep the MM and the MD 
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Agree…always do that. I only allow myself access to three pieces of gear at a time. Been doing that for the last two years.
But I need to get rid of stuff ASAFP…and it’s decision time and the brain interferes.
But your, very wise suggestion, is one many should consider. Sitting on stuff is just baggage.
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Then follow the advice of others and keep only MM and MD: the hardest to ever get back if you change your mind.
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Heh…see what I’m sayin 
I posted up my M:S for sale…heard some of the shit I did with it. Sounded good! Now I question THAT. But I can’t keep it.
I need to not listen to past shit till the stuff is gone. Cuz I think it’s perceived as good when I used to think it sounded like shit.
As suspected…and reason I’ve never posed this type of question I the past…the is no general consensus. It’s a TOTAL mixed bag.
I appreciate all the input.
I’ll figure it out.
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As you said tho…this issue isn’t features.
It’s my ability to draw out good sounds from the boxes.
And as I kinda suck, I can’t nail down what I werk best with. Cuz I don’t werk well.
I may dartboard this decision
Don’t do that! If you have no other objective criteria and no preferences, keep only the instruments that it would be more difficult to ever get back.
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I agree with that line of thinking…but at the same time I have had the WORST luck with vintage gear.
so, in the back of my mind the most return can be had with the silver ones. tho in EXCELLENT condition [MM still has screen protector on ] I just foresee connectivity issues, age issues.
I lost a Juno Alpha and 106 to them simply falling apart. I have an AKAI CD3000 [for sale by the way $50 OBO] cuz I don’t have the patience or means to connect it to anything.
this also factors into my indecision. MM was definitely on the chopping block, as when I play with it…I just get shite sounds out of it. but its also the box I’ve done some of my favorite shit with.
you’re dealing with someone who is not in a totally clear frame of mind at the mo 
adding; I DO appreciate the input tho. thanks man.
Hey phaelam, do you know anyone that might want to rent some of your equipment ? That would help them, and help you money wise too. I guess it’s a long shot but it makes the decision a lot easier.
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I have sold some vintage guitar gear when I needed money to pay rent back when I was a student and now sometimes wish I’d sold something else, so I see your issue. But then again, there is plenty of nice gear out there, and I later got other amps and guitars back that I now love just as much.
If I needed the money and space I think would sell the Machinedrum and Monomachine cause they will fetch more and give you more free space than the digis would. I would probably also sell the Digitakt, but keep the Digitone.
Coincidentally my setup now is also Peak + Octatrack + Digitone and along with my guitar and bass I think it covers a lot of ground.
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I honestly, in reality, dont think it really matters what I use.
the indecision is in my head. if I never had the stuff it I wouldn’t have known any better. I had the means before to own “stuff” and had this romantic vision of a house and a studio one day, and have a nice grip of gear to werk with.
well in reality…none of that is happening. and with the amount of times I gotta move, and with the current situation…less is definitely more.
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this won’t probably be the case for both the MM and the MD, at least for a while i think. things like encoders, switches and maybe even the display should be all available.
if what matters to you at the moment is make music then i would say not to worry much about what you use to do that…people have been making music before the DN, the OT, the MM and…so.
considering the DT and DN are rather new machines and have been on the market for a shorter period of time compared to the MM and MD, you could still get them either new or second hand at some point, and could cost less than the original price…won’t be the same for either a MM or MD which would be more expensive and harder to find…that being said, i still have some Waldorf synths i’ve not been using for a long while now…but the idea of not being able to find them again or having to spend a lot when i might decide to get them again, kinda forces me to keep them, together with the fact that those were some of the first synths i got back in the days, so there’s a bit of that too; to do what? well…who knows? 
considering all the things that can be done nowadays with the latest technology…but still…
Apart from the gear: give yourself some love! I know the self doubt all too well, but you or no one deserves that shit! Treat yourself with some kindness is all I’m saying:)
Back to gear: if all this stuff is getting into your head and taking all the fun out, I’d say just choose the boxes that give you the most pleasure playing them. Not the “best” feature set, not any big concept of combinations. Just, what will bring the joy back, disregarding all other arguments. Keep it fun, else we’re all lost.
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I slimmed down to an MPC Live, DN, and guitar (also 404SX and KO for mindless noodling). It’s a great setup and covers a lot of ground with a minimal footprint.
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I would say keep one new and one old, I personally would keep the Digitakt and MM. I don’t have a real persuasive argument for why you would need 3 samplers but I think Digitakt captures the new school elektron work flow best. MM has some really great sounds and weirdness for when you need it.
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