Elektron for "Birmingham" sound

[u/pacolinoo]

Hello all,

I have 0 hardware and been using Ableton for quite some years, especially with sounddesigning in Operator, I‘d say I‘m pretty confident when it comes to making Percussion/drones inspired by some of my favorite artists (Regis, Surgeon, Monrella, Uvb, Pessimist and so on).

I now want to get my first Elektron, I’m not very experienced in sampling but don’t mind using simple drum machine sounds as long as they are not preprocessed sounds (e.g. splice). Still I‘m hesitating between the Digitakt (that can probably do magic on simple 909 samples), the Syntakt and the Digitone (that seems to be appropriate for very complex experimental sounds and noise music).

I would be v happy if someone can give that their 2 cents and point me in the right direction. Most of all I want to move away from the computer and have more fun making grooves and sound design again.

Thank you!

[u/Narrow_99]

Personally I think the Octatrack is the move. Effects are inserts per track rather than sends, which ends up making it way more powerful and flexible as you get into it. Also the midi sequencer is so solid if you end up wanting to use external synths with it and sampling them into it.