If you want as close to a set of gazillion hardware boxes with many, many options, try Reason. You can go as simple, or as complex as you like, but patching possibilities are close to endless. I hardly ever use the main sequencer any more other than for recording output. Still it let’s you record or even directly paste MIDI output of the players into the sequencer.
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You are describing the workflow of Ableton Live (clip based)… that’s the whole concept of live. A DAW you can play… one step at a time.
Yes, other DAWs are more linear. But again you can add any instrument plugin you want, which when triggered by midi, happens one step at a time.
Sugar Bytes recently came out with a piece of software that they describe as a groovebox: Sugar Bytes | Dialekt. I’ve not tried it yet.
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and they won’t let you use as many slicer tracks as you want, because nobody ever in history requested that restriction
Pretty sure Baltra said in an interview he uses Maschine (though he was using Logic before the step sequencer at this point) without the hardware.
BAM seems like the closest thing I can think of outside of that…
I tried it about a year ago, and I found the modular structure quite complex over some other trackers. But hearing its name again makes me want to gice it a secnd chance
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How about Koala? If you can’t get a groove going with that, you might as well retire.
Also, Ableton Note.