Anyone a member of this club? Please share your experience 
I am! Main rig is the trinity. I spend way too much time crafting songs that I pour my soul into.
DN and DT (which I call DnT) I hooked up to batteries in a small portable rig and just write on the fly stuff that I donāt stress over and just have a ton of fun.
My Elektron rigs are the most fun Iāve ever had making music.
Canāt wait for the next box!
(Actually thinking about a heat on the master of my trinity)
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Well, I have AR, AF, DN, DT, AH.
Somewhere was a real need, somewhere it was GAS. I just couldnāt resist buying new black AR, so like how it looks
Can I be a member, pleeease?
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Iām currently in the club sans Digitone (which seems inevitable at this point). At the moment, I only have the trinity (OT, A4, RYTM) running with MPC X as master. I mostly just use the MPC as an entry point to samples, laying something down, which is then transferred to the OT in usb mode. Iām not a DJ and have no business having all this stuff but what can ya do.
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iām almost thereā¦ AR Mk2 Black, OT Mk2, AH Mk2, DT, DN
ā¦and trying not to splurge on the A4 Mk2 Black 
Only (not really) missing the Model:Samples.
My favorite rig for my impro sessions with friends is OT+DN and another piece. Most often, the Cycles.
I have tried to incorporate non-Elektron pieces, but I miss the onboard Elektron sequencer each time, it feels too staticā¦
Currently thinking about a case, but I canāt decide which of the Analog I should get in the rig.
3 Elektron is the big max I can play simultaneously, but 2 is better, less sounds, less frenzy, and more interactivity.
The heart has been OT from the very start, 6 years ago now.
Still my favorite instrument.
If I lost everything, this would be the one machine I would get back.
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Well honestly I see no reasons (except money) NOT to buy it. A beautiful piece of gear. And when it sits together with AR MK2, they look so good. I mean considering and justifying DT when you have OT would be one thing. But here is a different situation - your collection misses an Elektron analog synthā¦ so I think its just a matter of time, lol
I was enrolled in this elektron spiral at the time i get back to music production i would say around 2008-2009.
I come from the Old computer - Old Akai sampler ERA, i switch groovebox then.
Few years later i miss-invested in the Pro Studio way instead of a home studio which was a mistake financially (big Tascam with motorized faders, Virus KC, Akai Z8, MC909, RS7000, Dynaudio Monitors, super duper computerā¦ Powercore Firewire, Liquidmix oh damn, what an idiot i was).
Few years production break because i learnt the hard way you need knowledge if you want to be able to use right the equipment.
I listen everything i done in this past and concluded i was more productive on the groovebox ecosystem rather than ITB (even if i take the hybrid road very fast considering the time, it was very early). So i decided when heard great things about the Red Beast aka the MachineDrum to invest for the first time in a real drum machine. At this time it was not possible to invest in 808, 909, 303ā¦ those gears at 3 numbers with a 4 numbers price second hand.
Then the Octatrack.
Then when you are in the Elektron train car and they smartly modernize and release incredible machine like AR and A4 : you jump on it again ā¦ because you just want it as well
Today i have to smartly progress to get back everything after a financial/health issue where i literally sold everything - and i had everything i need for my live performance project (AR, A4, OT, HPD20, Behringer X18, Analog Heat, Focal Monitoring). It slowly come back and i will soon be able to work on this project very soon again.
I had MD, MM, OT, AR, A4, AK, AH - i really know well the dark trinity because i have more time with this team than the others. At some point i replace with ARmk2, OTmk2 and A4mk2 then i had some issue again, and fall back to zero. Like a poker player i would say.
For now i have the Toraiz SP16 and the Argon8m - i need the A4 and AR back. Then the DT (edit: DN I mistype) for FM Bass. probably the Heat mk2ā¦ and a mixer to get audio in my computer. (SP16, Argon8m)
So i have a long road to get everything i need again.
Every attempt i made outside elektron was a ānoā. For many reasons, first elektron goes hybrid as well as me so this is a perfect match here when i invest in accordance with my principles.
Also this is the only brand to me to progressively enhance theirs machines and not only the new stuff - which is for a me a big respect to the money i spend, put that the 3 years warranty even if you bought the device second hand and you are the second owner or moreā¦ And boom, just like that a lot of brand disappear to my interest. We tend to not see that much as an argument, well honestly they deserve a big thanks here.
Then, i made few tutorials like Harnessed Chaos from Noah Pred, was very interested by the subject because i just love the chance parameter on the beat repeat in Ableton Live for years now. And in my Hybrid approach itās just make sense when they release trig conditions.
So they have a spot on to me, in terms of progressive enhancement and new stuff releases. Iām am pretty sure to stay with them at least for the next decade. Thereās no sequencer with that power, thereās no gear with so many workaround and incredibly smart ideas. And the cherry on the cake itās grow with yearsā¦ and they make their thing even better with time like wine.
Period. Elektron : THANKS YOU SO MUCH.
iām not blindly a fan boy. i have a lot of arguments to justify my join and to be loyal
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Can I be in the gang with AR, AK, OT, DN and M:S?
The whole Elektron workflow was a game changer for me, a long time fan of the OTB/standalone groove box concept.
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i dont need more encouragement lol 
i do have some other gas i was hoping to satisfy first but the order will largely depend on local stock and none of what i have been looking at is available right now
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Are you using your Digitakt in the same manner after youāve added the AR MK2? Especially since the AR has onboard sampling.
This is very surprising coming from the author of:
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Been using it for two things since then:
- As a MIDI controller for my Sirin, BigSky and TD3.
- As a sampler for non-drum samples. I like it when they add movie dialogues or monologues to songs (came from my childhood when my brother listened to porno-goregrind and other grindcore where there was lots of this stuff lol). So I practice it too in my ācreationsā
But yea, before AR I used it for drums too.
Btw its really interesting to listen how other people use DT + AR together and why they keep them both
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absolutely not. i love house music, i love raw bass without filtering (FM Basses). What can pair well the A4, surely the Digitone in that regard. Also, the more Bass types i can get, the best it isā¦ we never have too many basses in a setup. 
Edit : sorry I didnāt see I wrote DT instead of DN my mistake
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I guess you mean DN here, right? 
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Oh yes just miss typing you right