Sorry about the tone
Show me an mpc song that would be difficult to do on an octatrack 
What is musical for you?
Lets not go there. An entire musical culture built itself using MPC, In about 2 years from when the mpc was released it was THE device for hip hop and any other sample based genre.
Hard to say something remotely simillar about OT 10 year into its existence. But im scrard to get scolded here⌠so enoughâŚ
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I think both are great, but despite some obvious similarities on paper, I use them very differently.
I rarely use my OT now for things I feel I can do better or more intuitively on the Digitakt - I prefer the Digitakt result and process to get there. I donât think Iâd ever get to the Digitakt result even if technically the OT could probably near-replicate it. However I simply canât use the Digitakt to achieve many things only the OT can do.
Neither of them trumps the other sufficiently to make me want to sell the other.
Thatâs not what I was asking for
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Im just saying that when
Producing professional music you gotta separate the boy from the man. Thats all. I havenât heard anything serious done on ot.
Cuckoo is not the octatrack and dilla not the mpc. Besides that this is a very stupid comparison itâs still the musician that does the music not the tool. Dilla could have done dilla music on an octatrack as well
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Hip-hop started long before the MPC. DJs and emcees = hiphop
MPC rocking studio catz, thatâs hiphop 2.0
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âProfessionalâ as an attribute of music - is that based on commercial success, subjective listener taste, peer legitimacy/fanboy consensus or technical skills?
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If you read back what i wrote in the first post you will see what i mean. OT has a tendency to pull the user to noodle jammy terrotory. Not necessarily to timeless qualities of music such as in so many records made with the mpc. Each device has its draw and things it brings out of the user.
I asked to be proven wrong but havent yet. Thats all im saying.
Naww man. To me it very much sounds like youâve already made up your mind.
Good day
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Iâve never understood the idea that certain instruments lead the user to create a certain type of music.
Besides, if we are gonna pigeon hole elektron, everyone knows all their boxes are good for is techno. 
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YI get what you mean - the likes of the MPC (or a guitar) seem to connect more directly with the producer/musician to inject soul.
OT can be more about âprogrammingâ and ultimately it is a sequencer amongst its other features.
In a way, that the Digitakt lacks arrangement mode makes it a more likely hands-on performance instrument as you have little option but to engage with it to navigate through an entire piece - to the audience this might appear more like a real musical endeavor where the performerâs live actions actually matter, rather than a heavily pre-programmed âjust hit playâ performance.
Personally I prefer music with interesting flaws, groove and mojo than micro perfect robot formulaicism. But that is true regardless of the instrument used. There is a lot of awfully boring music produced on every instrument - but somebody somewhere might love it.
Donât get me started on dubstep, trap, edm
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Tsutek- It doesnt matter what it sounds to you like. I am dying to hear serious music made on ot. Havenât yet.
Jefones- of course instruments influence the performer
Thanks mokomo
What do you consider âserious musicâ. If I recall correctly both Trent Reznor and Alessandro Cortini have used the OT on albums and film scores. That seems pretty serious to me.
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Would love to hear that. But using sometimg for an effect is still an effect. Was it a main instrument in the composition?
Guys im sorry I shouldnât have said all of this. At the end its all fun and games. Not sure why i got so serious and abnoxiousâŚ
Keep rockin. Ignore this threadâŚ
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