Right off the bat I will say that I love the OT, certainly an unsurpassed mangler of audio, and so customisable and configurable that it is almost like a modular without all the cables.
Lately though I have been checking out the Pioneer Toraiz with its flexible live set friendly sample assignments, and thinking the Octatrack could have easily saved me the GAS if only the pattern/kit system was like every other Elektron machine - that is to say each pattern can have its own kit, rather than the slot/part architechture, sure (like always) there are workarounds by way of using sample locks, but it is not really the same.
Then I thought, well why is it like that? Sample locks prove that it is not a hardware limitation, and it is nowhere near as user friendly as having a pattern with its own kit, no need to extend the number of samples because slices and the mangling power even on 1 shots can give plenty of mileage from 128 samples.
Anyone else agree/disagree?
Anyone from Elektron care to chime in?