Thanks for the replies - very interesting to know!
I can especially relate to people posting about users sharing a similar approach to music making. Interestingly, I just saw a thread where that elitism mentioned in this thread reared its head on a discussion about the Moog Sub 37 (I’m interested in getting one.) People were writing in mocking tones about ‘complex’ modulations and ‘experimental sounds’ (basically saying they would never be usable in an ‘actual’ piece of music) - very much a case where the virtuoso keyboard players were looking down on those with more of a producer / composer mindset (or those who…like being able to make unusual, modulated sounds and happen to find them ‘usable’! Hah!) I come across that attitude a lot, anyway. Why define what’s worthwhile in such narrow terms, I wonder? I don’t feel superior in any way to those people and see the value in all disciplines - but surely such scathing approaches to forms alien to oneself can’t be anything except limiting? If a user of gear likes those kind of sound design possibilities that are (currently) more ‘on the edge’ of what’s acceptable and want to spend hours exploring them or incorporating them in a piece of music, what’s the problem? I actually grew up immersed in classical music and still that world at times, but my notions of what constitutes melody, harmony, rhythm or music itself seem have been greatly broadened by this technology and music that explores sound in different/playful ways. Anyway: clearly people are increasingly finding it just as wonderful to create sound-design driven musical worlds where musical distinctions are all very liquid as do any approaches in music. It’s strange to me that people don’t live and let live in this! It clearly at some point all takes commitment and skill to realise, in different ways.
I wonder if the relative newness of Elektron gear - but also its high end sound and quality- helps this evasion of distinctions of old vs new, analog vs digital, tradition and experimentation and all the other boring distinctions that can ruin fun in music? 
