Just been playing with this. IMO 30 is the ideal number of a chain on the Digitakt as you can then hold down the start encoder and it jumps in increments of 4, so no manual tweaking required to get the start time correct.
I used Octachainer and it seemed to work well in general, although I did accidentally create a chain with one longer sample which resulted in the whole chain being long (4 mins) and some of the sample starts sounded clipped for some reason.
Cool technique anyway, feels like a nice way to group related drum hits together and easily scroll through them (eg 30 electronic kicks, 30 acoustic kicks etc each in their own sample). Don’t really feel like I need 120 samples per chain, I’ll be back in “overwhelmed by number of samples” territory 