Thank you for your perspective, especially considering you have a lot of the same stuff I do. I am less concerned about what is covered by my various instruments than I am about how I feel about using them. Not wanting to sidetrack this thread back to another long in-depth thread about MPC versus Octave track, but I have had the MPC one now for over six months, and find myself not feeling excited when I sit down to use it, ever. On the other hand, I am thrilled to be sitting down and using the A4 And I don’t think that’s just because the A4 is the newer machine. Even when I first purchased the MPC one, once I understood how I wanted to use it, it was OK, but as others have pointed out, it still feels like a DAW in a box. That is not what I want. I already have logic in a very powerful Mac pro.
I have looked very hard at the RYTM, and I’m still considering that as a second or third purchase. However, I am not really interested in a drum machine, and much more interested in manipulating sound in the way that the Octa track seems more capable of doing with a lot more options than the RYTM.