He literally said he is using hardware and not a DAW.

That’s for recording, What about live where you might want different outs to go to different pedals?

Thanks, @crall. I was just curious, but it is interesting to know how these different products handle such things. I’m always intrigued by these kinds of groove boxes, and this one has lots of “candy” that captures my imagination.

on digitakt and digitone there is global swing but not per track. it sounds good.

tempo and swing are recalled per pattern. there is tempo scaling per track 1x, 2x, 1/2x, etc. i think there is a 3x or 3/4x to get triplets. i never use that so others will have to elaborate. there is not a setting for exactly triplets, but there is a couple different workarounds with retrigs and microtiming.

there is microtiming and it’s super easy. just hold the step you want to microtime and press left or right.

1. Triplet/Tuplet friendly? (What are the rate scales and how do they translate to step rates?)
2. Is there a swing option? (Is it always just delaying even-numbered steps per beat –i.e. resetting on each beat?)
3. Is there micro-timing, and how easy is it to use?
4. How is tempo control handled? Per pattern, per track, automate-able?

Granted, most users don’t know or care, but it does make a difference for the kinds of creative work you can do.

There was a brief moment about pattern chaining which is at least something.

i’m curious why they left out song mode for these. Could not be a technical thing could it, must be price or incentive to buy other gear. Most of their gear feels like the code base could just be copied over to the next machine. Design new sound engines analog or FPGA connect it to the application.
That sad leave out song mode saves on testing.
I like to use song mode so i mis it on this product line definitely.

Use Overbridge.

Everything does.

Probably keep my minilogue, have to see what this is like in person.

i mean, i already own a Rytm, so i have that aspect covered

but ultimately if i was using it as a drum machine, i would need it to have more than just one stereo output as well, so Id be using this more like a synth/sequencer anyways

This would sound nice with the Crystalline plugin