How do all these compare to elektron sequencer, say on Octatrack?
Got a T-1 arriving soon to compare with my Oxi. I’d really love to try manipulating midi live in a musical way, and the UI looks brilliant once you get to know it. Also 16 polyphonic tracks plus relative CC control is pretty cool (though technically with Oxi you could have 32 i think using 4x multi sequencers?). I wanna do stuff similar to Analog Sol.
The Oxi is of course far deeper, but the UI definitely requires practice and memorization, especially because they keep on adding more features. That makes it a little tricky onstage. Still, won’t be selling my it because as mentioned it’s perfect for deterministic workflows in the studio. Sometimes you just wanna paint notes chromatically. And the different sequencer modes are very inspiring. Have barely scratched the surface of matriceal…
Latest UI updates (labels on screen, latched mute modes etc) are quite nice.
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I ended up ordering a T1 me too, thanks to the same AnalogSol inspirational videos which sealed the deal.
I’m also keeping my Squarp Hapax to cover the bread and butter sequencing stuff, but as I’m switching to a more jamming oriented workflow, I could end up with just a small setup: T1-Syntakt-Micromonsta2 and maybe sell a lot of other stuff that’s collecting stuff on the desk
On its way my friend 
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Yay yes thank you @vasidudu !! Great seller here folks, very communicative and responsive:)
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Has someone tried the Oxi One MK2 and the T-1? I’m curious about the new OXI and the recent firmware updates reducing or not the “gap” with the T-1, or if the T-1 keeps being in a paradigm of its own, a very different type of game. Note: I haven’t used any, just watched and read quite about both.
The experience is different.
I wouldn’t have T-1 as my only sequencer, but on the other hand, the way you manipulate sequences and work with notes is very interesting.
The Oxi is more of a battleship sequencer – it does practically everything except the piano roll style ”I want to black MIDI”, endless amount of events.
The Oxi’s generative options are pretty numerous by this point, but it’s still not a T-1. Whether that’ good or bad is up to what you need.
Negatives:
T-1 is kind of hard to keep organized at times, and it’s not the best for being very intentional about what you write. That’s not what it’s built for. No screen is nice but difficult at times.
Oxi is kind of shorcut-heavy – it can be a handful to get to grips with. Of course you don’t need to use every feature at once, but I tend to want to know how a thing works pretty thoroughly. Mark 2’s extra buttons help a bit.
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This is a big one, I approached learning mine similar to how I learnt the Octatrack: baby steps, learn a feature at a time, use it often to understand how to get in-and-out of a feature. It can have the same frustrations of the OT when you do something but don’t know how you got there, or how you erased/destroyed something (took me a while to grasp the copy-paste of patterns, I’m dumb that way).
It’s also extremely powerful, and can be very immediate after you get the hang of the basics
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