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I love the sound, capabilities and build quality of the Elektron gear (especially Digitakt / Analog Rytm2), but I dislike the amount of menu-diving that's required. I find the interface a bit of a barrier. My Roland TR-8S has dedicated knobs to most of it's features, there's less 'magic' happening. I do really miss conditional triggers and a nice built-in effects chain like in the Elektron hardware.

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The menu diving becomes second nature after a while. You won't become Dataline overnight but it's not as daunting after the manual and YouTube tutorials

I know, but I've come to the realisation that menu-diving devices just aren't suited to me. There's too many steps and combinations of keys to remember - is the feeling I get every time. Especially when you've got lots of gear in the studio already. I'll stick to a more straightforward drum machine and modular synthesizers. I wish Elektron would've added more knobs (encoders) and faders. I was looking into combining a Faderfox (or Oktakontrol) with an Octatrack, that seems a bit more intuitive.

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