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How so? People werk differently. I don’t jive with ableton. What can you do. Either adapt or move on. No right or wrong……right? :slight_smile:

I was always apprehensive of the MPC cuz of what people said re: werkflow. When I finally got one, it just clicked with the way I think. :man_shrugging:t5:

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Well I’m still using it after 18 months. Buy I would still change a whole bunch of stuff.

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Different devices appeal differently on a person to person basis. I knew how to work the MPC and Force both without watching tutorials or opening the manual. Very intuitive and straightforward.

Now the Roland MV-1 and MC101 were the two worst gear experiences I’ve ever had. Completely unintuitive to me. Same with their Jupiter XM. That said, the Fantom is incredibly intuitive to me. I’m hoping I can figure out the SP404 mkii.

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This narrows down the choices for a single device, especially when you add in the rest of the criteria.

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I guess it depends on previous experience

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In my opinion, yes :smile:

Hopefully you gravitate to something perfect for these tasks and prove me wrong

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I really like this idea for you. I went through a similar journey to yours but in reverse. Very limited time, feeling totally drained by the demands of an office job, and eventually found that I couldn’t gather enough steam to start, much less finish tracks with my Push 2 / Ableton setup.

Then I bought a Digitone and poured myself into it. It really is a complete little universe unto itself.

I think you need fewer tools, not more. But a reinvigorated sense of the emergent possibilities. The Digitone is such a deep box that I’m convinced you could spend years honing your own sound using the parameters we’ve been given.

One thing that I found is that it did eventually become burdensome to sound lock my way through a rich drum track. A few months ago I paired it with a Syntakt and have been really happy with them as a combined workstation.

Your core problem is probably emotional, from the sound of it. Simplify your tools and channel that fucked feeling into your music. Try something completely different.

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The best thing about owning an OT was that everything I have used since seems easy to learn!

I like my MPC 2 but I just got a 404 Mk2 and that (despite being very different) didn’t to long to get the hang of and is great fun…never forget the fun factor, you are more likely to pick it up and start making music if it’s fun!

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Actually, I was side-commenting that I got the new MacBook Air as a splurge to gain portability. Not just due to the laptop’s weight, but the weight and bulk of my battery-challenged MacBook Pro’s charger makes that combo yet more annoying than it should be. For serious ITB stuff, though, sure, I’d go with the MacBook Pro.

It’s just that if OP-1 could load external MIDI files, then I probably wouldn’t have spent that part of the budget on the Air. I splurged for portability so that I can also lug around either the MC-101 or SP-404MKII and use the Air as a power source and MIDI file transfer device. An OP-1 Field would be even more useful than the Rolands because of its standalone advantages—if it just loaded external MIDI files.

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CERTAINLY. (And less time than I’d like :smiley: )

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Could you pair it with an arranger than loaded midi files like a Korg pa3x which is cheap as chips now?

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I don’t know the Pa3X at all, but a quick lookup shows it’s a rather large workstation. If I paired it with an OP-1 Field, I’d lose all the portability, which is the main reason I’d get an OP-1. Am I missing your idea here?

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Well it is what it is. If it’s not clickin’ why torcher yourself? There are plenty of alternatives.

im not saying you are. You just give the impression you aren’t pleased with it

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No. Youd lose portability. Probably a dumb suggestion :crazy_face:

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