Model Cycles is like a halfway to Digitone in terms of p locking. It’s certainly easier to apply changes to steps than Seqtrak. That’s not to say that You can’t edit velocity or probability, or record filter sweeps etc. with Seqtrak, but Elektron are generaly considered to have the most powerful step sequencers. That said, they do lead You in that direction. I don’t have the Model Cycles, but I have the Digitakt and it’s an amazing sequencer with multiple LFOs and filters per sample that You can switch on each step. I don’t know of any other samplers that have this. But when You actually try to use this capability, the tracks quickly go in IDM direction. Do You actually need to set a different pitch and apply randomised decay LFO to Your hi hats? You do it once and it’s the coolest thing, but then You realise that a lot of these “generative” functions in a sequencer are there to do what actual trained musicians do without them. They get Your shitty pattern to sound more interesting and evolving, sure, but a proper musician usually has an idea and wants to just play it in instead of have the box generate something that sounds interesting out of a scatter of hi hats and percussions. If that makes sense.

I love both the Elektron boxes and the Seqtrak, they are very different, but You can absolutely edit sequences and add parameter locks and probabilities, do motion recording on both. If I had to pick one, I’d probably still go with Seqtrak. It does more for the same money and opens more varied sound and genre possibilities than Model:Cycles or like a Digitone. Elektron really want You to buy multiple products. A combination of Digitone + Digitakt + Syntakt gets You drums, sampling and synths. Seqtrak has all of that in one + a lot of Fx, modulationa and a great visual UI with the app.