Good plan!
Thanks for those, the Akai does look really nice, although I’m looking for a smaller keyboard that isn’t a pain to carry to gigs, etc.
Great to see there are options though so I’ll have a closer look. After my initial panic (and thanks to the help here) my A4 is safe and won’t be going anywhere near eBay 
No problem, i’m glad i could help.
Using one controller for the OT and another for the A4 would’ve be awesome!
The AKAI has four different Banks per preset. You can create a preset for a synth and use the banks to map different CCs to the fader, so basically 8 faders a 4 banks equals 32 fader in praxis. Same with all the 8 knobs and the 16 pads.
So you can test more and more to find the limits!
TK49 as pretty nice features too, such as user chords per pad, xy touch pad…
Pads are a bit better than my MPC 500, or former MPC 1000, still not very good.
Pads better on Mpk259?
Anyone know a way to quantize the live arpeggiator into always being on time? I know you can run a sequence on C and use transpose, but this proves problematic for playing chords. Whenever I’m playing live, if I miss the timing I have to keep playing in the same note in several times until it’s properly lined up to the beat.
The only workarounds I found were to play with a synced midi keyboard with arp, or :
Use a tooth pick to plock notes on one step. Can be funny but of course limited
I used to have a synced arp on my first groovebox : MC 303.
Every time I use a non synced arp on a sequencer I don’t understand how it’s possible. Who would prefer unsynced arp ? Or unsynced retrig like on Syntakt.
@Elektron ?
Elektron have a synced arp on Digitone. 
feature-request@elektron.se
Why don’t you program the chords in the midi note setup on a trig?
Then everything will be quantized.
