Model:Samples : Love this thing. Swapped my DT for this. No regerts.

I love my M:S!

Pros

- closer to one knob per function than DT

- easy to use out the box

- i'm far more productive with it than i was with the DT

- smells like success

- is not a horse (little known fact: horses are not good drum machines)

- not made for long form samples, but i've had some fun doing weird things to disco loops (just gotta keep the tempo the same as how you bounce em out the DAW, though)

Cons

- tiny screen. when you transfer folders of sample over it's impossible to see the date of the transfer folder, so you just have to count and guess...

- i miss the 2 extra audio channels that the DT has

- no individual outs so i have to hard pan kick/the rest and work in mono to use my outboard compressor w/sidechain

- midi control is not amazing but i don't use it for that.

People say the pads are not that responsive and they're not wrong, but I am perfectly fine with how they... respond.

Anyway I think it's amazing for the price and a great introduction to Elektron sequencer/workflow.