Elektron Model:Samples

Better hands-on experience than digitakt, but the trade-off is of course less features. Sound quality is good, the knobs are good, and the device feels very responsive. Once you get the samples into the device and loaded in your pattern, it is all great.

The bad: The software for transferring samples is annoying and buggy (an SD card slot would have been better), and i would prefer if the device could just show up as removable storage. Pitch control is really just a playback speed control, but thankfully an update has made it possible for more fine adjustments at least. Timestretch would have been nice. The preloaded samples cannot be removed and will forever waste your time when ever you browse for the new sample you just uploaded. When you search for model:samples tips online, you find lots of quirks and hacks that people use to compensate for simple features that are not officially supported.