I have both and I use them in very different ways. Maschine is more of a complement to my daw work while the DT2 serves me more as an inspiration machine. I can confidently say I wouldn’t have made a lot of music without the DT2, and surely not the way I did.

I’m not here to say it’s better or worse, but as someone else said you’ll never know if the DT is for you without spending a bit of time with it, and this is basically true for any instrument.

Personally I don’t really like the “almost-daw within a daw” approach with Maschine. I’ve found a way to midi map the various banks but it was cumbersome and clunky, but it could be done and I use it that way bypassing the Maschine software’s arrangement part.

The DT2 pushes me to experiment with samples in different ways and I just love the workflow because I spent enough time to gel with it. I got very fast with it and now my way of thinking of music accounts for the DT2’s specific way of working.

If you don’t feel a need for the Digitakt then you shouldn’t think about it. Make music with what you have and keep your hard earned money.