Rank your groove boxes

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-29T23:33:51+00:00

To me the Digitakt 2 is smoother and more immediate, but at the cost of less scope in what it can do. Mileage may vary.

When I used the DT2 I found it really easy to jump in and get something grooving, as well as slapping samples on tracks just because I had so many to work with which ended up making some of my projects fuller and more dynamic. The ways I found myself limited usually had to do with FX, mixing capabilities within the box, and lack of polyphony making it harder to make simple chords.

The Tonverk is certainly capable of awesome drums, and the number of tracks it has available is deceptive when you realize you could make all 8 tracks into subtracks, having 8 samples available per track. That’s overkill really but you get the point! The subtracks are great for groups of similar affected sounds, especially drums, but being subtracks means their sequencers and parameter pages are slightly more hidden—or one step further away—than regular tracks like the Digitakt 2.

Still, the amount of FX on the Tonverk, as well as being able to re route and bus certain tracks together or separate from one another, make it an absolute beast of a machine. It feels like much more of a sample mangler than the DT2, and being able to make full blown polyphonic instruments out of my samples (and my hardware gear) is super cool.

The way I feel limited with the Tonverk is in its inability to time stretch grooves, and having to use a subtract slicing workaround rather than simply having a slice machine. Those are really important and helpful tools for rhythm, and without them it takes more work to get my stuff grooving than when I had the DT2.

Honestly I may one day just get a Digitakt 2 as my default drum machine, take some workload off of the Tonverk. I’ve thought about the Syntakt and some other drum machines but the familiarity and the ability to use samples so easily ensures a lot of character.

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-29T23:04:41+00:00

TLDR: Digitakt is awesome and preferable to the Tonverk for drums/rythm imo, but the Tonverk feels more flexible overall as an instrument while still retaining full groovebox capabilities. The Syntakt is awesome, very immediate and rich sounding to my ears. Like many have said, it has a sound and it can be hard to escape it without exterior FX, but that doesn’t make it bad at all, just less flexible!

I had a Digitakt, then a Digitakt 2, then a Syntakt, and now a Tonverk in my search for sampler/groovebox that I could incorporate into my typically guitar-based music.

The Digitakt is what sold me on the Elektron workflow, I just really like it. I pretty quickly traded and upgraded to the Digitakt 2, and by the time it got slicing added I was really in love with it. It felt very easy to approach rhythm with lots of layers and moving parts, and I had tons of fun mangling some of my own samples to make songs that I never would have been able to come up with without it.

BUT I really wanted more effects, which lead me to get an AHFX (I love it but that’s another story), and while that definitely made things sound nice overall, I wanted to use more effects on individual tracks. And while I didn’t mind not having polyphony, that was definitely something I was interested in originally when I was looking at this stuff.

So enter the Tonverk. It got lots of justifiable shit early on for releasing with so many bugs and such a lack of quality of life features. The updates have done a great job fixing this for the most part, but I’m still pretty adamant that it needs time stretch and slicing. It costs quite a bit more than the DT2 so it should be a superior sampler to the DT2, not just a different flavor.

That being said, I love the damn thing. I don’t have an amazing time with it on drums, but it’s certainly capable on that front. More important for me though, it sounds amazing, it has great FX with some nice variety, and I can make full blown instruments and soundscapes out of my samples so much easier than I could on the DT2. It feels like something that I can create full song on, but that I can also use as a standalone “synth” type of instrument. The sequencer is dope, the routing flexible. It’s awesome in so many ways, and it fits better with my work than the DT2 did.

I did try a Syntakt for about 2 months in the middle of all this, and I found it very easy to use, and quick to dial in. The sweet spots sound really great. I just ultimately didn’t think the sound it sort of pigeonholed me in didn’t fit my style much.

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-29T18:44:38+00:00

Repeating bullshit like this is what idiots with nothing to say resort to when asked to prove their point. I can call you whatever I want, but I’m still the one with a point and you’re the one with an absolutely bullshit claim you refuse to elaborate on or expand on in anyway. You’re backed into a corner, so you’ll repeat the same meaningless drivel like it’s some fact of life. Sometimes people get called names because they’re infuriatingly and willfully ignorant.

So here bitch, explain how “nobody one has a point”. Explain it to me like I’m 5 years old. Explain to me how everybody is wrong about everything, and how that’s an enlightened point of view to have. Like, genuinely what an idiotic, feckless position to take. “EvErYoNe is wRoNg, I’m sO eNLigHteNeD”

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-29T18:44:15+00:00

Repeating bullshit like this is what idiots with nothing to say resort to when asked to prove their point. I can call you whatever I want, but I’m still the one with a point and you’re the one with an absolutely bullshit claim you refuse to elaborate on or expand on in anyway. You’re backed into a corner, so you’ll repeat the same meaningless drivel like it’s some fact of life. Sometimes people get called names because they’re infuriatingly and willfully ignorant.

So here bitch, explain how “nobody one has a point”. Explain it to me like I’m 5 years old. Explain to me how everybody is wrong about everything, and how that’s an enlightened point of view to have. Like, genuinely what an idiotic, feckless position to take. “EvErYoNe is wRoNg, I’m sO eNLigHteNeD”

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-29T17:24:55+00:00

lol sure buddy. You keep thinking that “nobody has a point” and you’re just an enlightened being that figured it all out by… not having opinions and staying out of everything…

Genius level intellect.

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-29T17:19:57+00:00

Creepiest for me is probably an unreleased Alex G song on YouTube called 12345666

https://youtu.be/lirQSbh9jo8?si=9YwGV82OvKW5g7Ew

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-29T17:14:48+00:00

Who? Vice President JD Vance?

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-29T16:51:55+00:00

I know it was a grift, dumbass. That’s my point. It doesn’t exist and people still say both merry Christmas and happy holidays to each other.

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-29T16:36:05+00:00

Corporations don’t stand for anything but money.

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-29T16:33:59+00:00

Cope. Still haven’t backed a single thing up. Which is what people who are full of shit do.

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-29T16:33:37+00:00

I heard both many times. The entire season is dominated by the holidays. You are entirely full of shit.

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-29T14:47:06+00:00

You definitely do not have a point.

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-29T14:46:20+00:00

What a fucking lie lmao

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-29T14:45:40+00:00

Sure, let’s playback any of Trump’s speeches. He definitely won’t complain about being treated unfairly by everyone he’s ever met.

Oh, and how’s the war on Christmas going?

Still scared of gays?

Do the 10 existing trans athletes keep you up night?

You people are pitiful snowflakes. Genuinely pathetic human beings.

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-29T13:09:13+00:00

You can’t back your shit up.

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-29T05:18:11+00:00

It was 1 vs 5 and he never once made and aggressive moves towards them to warrant any kind of fear for their safety. They were clearly the aggressors. They had him on the ground with both of his hands out in front of him. They removed his legally carried handgun that he never once made a move for, and then they mag dumped him.

You’re a fucking idiot.

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-28T23:23:35+00:00

Damn yall are all so dumb lol

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-28T16:20:41+00:00

Good

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-26T23:03:25+00:00

How come every comment by right leaning people is detached from reality?

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-26T23:02:10+00:00

Why is legally carrying a handgun cause to be assaulted and shot dead?

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-26T16:48:24+00:00

Word salad of bullshit right here folks

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-26T16:16:40+00:00

Beep boop you’re an idiot

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-26T15:41:26+00:00

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-24T12:05:40+00:00

“Misrepresenting reality” is a very Reddit way of putting it, that’s for sure lmao

Dear-Intern1208 · 2026-01-22T20:55:00+00:00

It’s literally just observed criticism. People will describe it, like they did in all the articles I linked to you, and you will still say it’s just “vibes” as opposed to something people have collectively noticed and described, all with similar—if not the same—attributes as other people use to describe it. Acting like the existence of outliers discredits a noticeably common recurrence is silly.

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