Dear Elektronauts,
I’m intrested which Combi you like more?
OT & A4
OT & RYTM
A4 & RYTM
Thank you for your Feedback.
All the best,
waldemaR
Hello,
It all depends on your musical needs.
I love the AR, and the A4 paired up. My studio partner loves the Octatrack and thinks that he will be pairing it up with the A4 after borrowing mine for a short period of time. Which device do you currently own?
Kind regards,
KD
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OT x any of them is the best combo for me… i loved oct x md, and oct x md x a4 has been awesome. If one had to go, probably the md… just because oct is so damn good at percussion anyways.
I like the AK+AR combo. If I need to mess around with long samples I prefer doing it in melodyne editor or ableton and bouncing back to the MPC/EPS/S1000/SP1200. Since I am used to the older samplers I can still chop small phrases into the AR and get where I need to go hardwarewise. Yes I am going to have to have to multitrack out my ideas, but multimode analog filters on digital samples sounds really good. If you don’t own any hardware samplers I would recommend the octatrack because it covers a lot of ground. The only setback is the learning curve might put you off. The AK and AR learning curve wasn’t too bad.
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Hello,
It all depends on your musical needs.
I love the AR, and the A4 paired up. My studio partner loves the Octatrack and thinks that he will be pairing it up with the A4 after borrowing mine for a short period of time. Which device do you currently own?
Kind regards,
KD
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Dear KD,
thank you for your Feedback. I own an OT and i’m beginning to learn this beast. My Sound going straight four four Techno, but not hard as hell.
All the best,
waldemaR
Mmmm… Either OT & A4 or AR & AK. Depends on the mood Im in I think. For pure analogue simplicity and fun then AR/AK but if wanting to get a little more “out there” and experimental then that’s when the OT comes in and replaces the AR.
Of course, all three together makes for some serious fun.
A4 & RYTM
I’m not really a beat-heavy kind of music maker, and I like to sample live instruments and mangle said samples, so for me it’s
OT + A4
No love for the Monomachine? Mono and OT is a match made in heaven!
Not according to the original post.
I’m currently pairing the A4 and Mono.
Synth-a-rama!
MD and MM silver heaven or hell 
!!!
Recently added a mnm to the dark3.
excellent machine. a definite ying to A4’s yang.
The mnm is keeping me held back from getting into eurorack, thankfully … as my eurorack temptations were the likes of braids and intellijel shapeshifter. different things to the mnm, but for those hollowed-out sharpy plucky digitally sounds the mnm seems excellent (if not far broader) once I get more experienced with it.
also very handy having an extra mnm midi out hanging off my OT clocked trinity to send into its own midi clock synced subworld of controlled external effects taking audio from and back to the electron boxes which is today’s project now that I have been abandoned by the wife and kids for a few hours to ‘catch up on some work’.
ultimately a few elektrons seems like a nice meta modular hybrid with plenty of opportunity for patch cables and midi routings.
AK + A4 for me - I was a little bit disappointed whith the AR when it came out because i would have preferred a total analog machine without samples and more analog options ( LFO’s - modulation -machines etc…)
Sinds i!m working with this combo i’ve started to appriciate the A4 more an more as a drummachine. An i don’t have to bother about sample-managing.
Some people warned me for overkill - but if mony wasn’t an issue i would by a second A4 ( for 12 voices - 12 tracks )
Some users complain about the basses in the AK -A4 but i manage to get ground-shaking basses out of them and in infinite variations.
Of the black box choices, Rytm + A4.
But Rytm + MonoMachine is quite fierce too.
Rytm/A4/MnM trinity is my favorite overall. Seems it needs its own special techno-specific trinity name.