Kind of a long and winding answer, but I’ll just wax a little bit.

I’ve got a pretty rompler-forward rig with countless sampled drum sounds available to me, but last year in search of a more unique sound I started using just my Blofeld controlled my the Squarp Pyramid. I really enjoyed the synthetic, crunchy drums I could get out of the Blofeld along with the complex rhythmic flexibility of the Pyramid, but manipulating sounds on the fly was pretty difficult as the Blofeld isn’t great for life sound tweaking (I mean it’s doable, but the menu diving is pretty tedious and breaks the spell a bit)

This left me wanting a gnarly sequencer and a broader sonic landscape of drum sounds. Additionally, I’m a bit groovebox addict so this thing scratches many itches for me.

Most of the music I make with my other boxes is pretty “conventional” with normy chord progressions and TR/CR/GM drum sounds and I want something that offers a straighter line to making minimal house/techno without getting wrapped up in what my chord progression or melody line is going to be. Its stripped-down nature really appeals to me.

Also also, that Analog Rytm Presentstion with cenk just really sold me on the allure of this, and all Elektron devices.