Well, the Elektron take is to guarantee that everything is plockable and automatable to oblivion. I guess that means prioritizing this over higher polyphony. Maybe you could replace one of your digis with such a high poly instrument and sequence it with an Elektron? I don’t expect Elektron to give us huge polyphony anytime soon.
@tomfs: The mute mode problem partly became solved with the latest OS update, are you aware of this?