If a newcomer want to buy an OT and read this thread and now hesitate, I just want to say I have the DT since more than 2 years and I just get the OT a week ago and the sound quality of the OT is excellent. Yeah it’s different from the DT, and that also why we love machine because they all sound differents.
Don’t be scared you will not sound bad unless you make a bad track.
Complaining about the OT’s sound quality is like complaining that your Ferrari is a bit difficult in the bends.
Sounds like you mean timestretching, not pitching down. The OT timestretch sounds terrible for conventional use, but pitching down (using rate) sounds really good
This. I only recently really realized how much this adds up, having the filter in separate tracks ánd on the master T8 in my case. Comparing between having those two on vs. both off was the biggest sound difference that I found I was looking to account for.
I personally like the resulting dullish rusty oomph of my OT in most cases, but in setups/routings where too many factors cause mud/dullish low/mids I now know that I can just remove filter on T8 and/or the respective Thru track.
The problem when people make sweeping statements like this is that it could put potential purchasers off, those that know it not to be true are not “defending” it but simply pointing out how to get the best sound.
Better to have accurate truths than comments made by users unfamiliar enough saying “it sounds dull/flat/crap” etc.
Hey @darenager is that meant for me? I actually just mean the opposite with sharing my 2 cents: That it’s actually nót bad sounding, just a choice to use the filters or not.
No I just happened to be typing when you were, it is just a general remark, about the horse which hath been flogged to death many times already 
Ha! OK got it. And sometimes we need some repetition, if there’s not enough other news to discuss eh?:))
This is a true statement. The timestretch is not as good as Ableton, or most software. I’ve never really used timestretching for anything but effect. If I were using loops and wanted to change more than a couple bpm, I would just plug in the usb to my computer open it in Bitwig and do the work there. One of the best things about the OT is the CF card is just another hard drive on your computer. No transfer app nonsense.
Yeah TS is best used as an effect rather than corrective once you go beyond about 10bpm.
Yeah, this horse is done. Maybe the OP could change the topic- “fixed: owned it more than 3 weeks. sounds great”
The OP last posted in Dec. 2018 and created the OP in Sep. 2018. I doubt he will ever come back to change the topic of this thread.
The recurring debate over OT sound quality is one of the reasons I don’t really push the OT on potential buyers in various forums. 90% of the time, the person does not really know what they want anyway, and is just too proud to admit he really doesn’t know the difference between the OT and more popular drum samplers in the mold of MPC and Electribe. I personally don’t consider the OT to be a drum sampler but those guys always talk about it like it is.
I must agree that the sound quality of the OT is not that great, no kidding! Even the sound quality on the sampling part of the AR mk2 could be better.
Saying this many times before by comparison with my ‘old samplers’ Akai S1100, SSC Kyma but also new like the Waldorf Quantum.
Also I don’t think well known recording artists like Tejada, Surgeon etc would be using OT if it did not sound good enough.
Or to put it bluntly:
Octatrack, good enough for Tejada, but not good enough for random guy on internet.
Don’t shoot me, but I never heard about these artists 
Quite well respected Techno artists with long careers.
Also Octa Chainer forum super hero @Abhoth did this test, worth checking out:
Oki, I just have little affinity with Techno in general.
No worries, I am hardly up to speed on tons of artists myself.
Anyway, I had fun with the OT and used it like 3 years on jam sessions. Need also different ways to work with sampling and got my eye on the Pecussa SSP because of it’s 16 inputs and 8 outputs.
About sound quality I could add that the Akai S1100 got something special maybe because of the discrete way of AD/DA. SSC Kyma is just paramount in sound quality and Waldorf Quantum more towards hifi in a controlled matter. For the rest it’s Sound Devices 32 bit float for field/foley recording. Even before with 24 bit the content it sounded less detailed with ambiance and pinpointing sound sources on the OT. Maybe the OT it’s not perfectly phase coherent?