Good monitors and/or room treatment. You’ve got so much gear. You absolutely don’t need the Digitakt. Make sure you can hear what you have.
Wow. You don’t need anything. Get an iPad Pro. That’s all I have now, to sit alongside my Digitakt, which hopefully arrives on Wednesday.
Not sure where your based but I use Zurich music insurance in U.K for dongle linked software licences (lost Cubase 4 full licence once!!!) and everything that could be out of studio (MacBook, iPad, op-1) etc. £10 a month well spent.
Everything else over £1k is a separate item on home insurance with accidental damage cover. Everything else is covered automatically. That probably adds another £15 a month. Well worth it compared to the feeling of losing it all for whatever reason, however unlikely.
Thanks for the input guys! I absolutely will make gear insurance a priority I’ve put it off for way too long!
From the input here and from my research of the DT it definitely seems like a fun little box however already owning (and being VERY happy with the 5 main Elektron boxes) it seems like the DT would be pretty redundant. It seems to be like a scaled down and more affordable OT with some interesting tricks up it’s sleeve and like a pretty fun and inspiring piece of kit perhaps targeted at people that have yet to enter the Elektron world and/or have some of the Elektron gear but not all of it but either way it seems absolutely redundant in my setup. I think my interest in it was more G.A.S induced. I’ve had several different studio setups the past 14 or so years and one thing I took away from that in building up the studio I have now is to avoid redundancy, with the one exception being if there is a special something that may cover a base you already have covered but with a dramatically different work flow. set of features or something that inspires new lines of thinking and different approaches to the way you work or something along those lines. For instance I have used Maschine since it came out and still use my MK1 for basic beat construction even though I could easily do everything that machine does in something like the OT for example (or really in Ableton itself) since they are both samplers with a couple FX on each one etc the workflow is so dramatically different that they both inspire me to create things I probably wouldn’t have in just using one of them.
Thanks again for the input and for the gear suggestions AND for reminding me that I really need to stop putting off gear insurance.
If you have home insurance you may be ok… all my gear falls under that category and is insured even if i take it with me on travels