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So im really enjoying my e2, being probably the most productive ive ever been with this little box.
The whole realtime tweaking and jamming approach has grown on me and i wanna expand on this. In this regard im looking to get a second unit to bang out with, and im looking very hard at the OT and the A4.
So im wondering if anyone here have synced theyre e2 with either of these and how you find it, and perhaps more importantly how they get along midi wize in a set up?
E2 / elektron dual users share youre experiences

I have both A4 and OT, I love my OT to bits, great for sampling, mangling and additional sequencing, but if you need more synth power, A4 is the way to go

If you want real time performance and tweaking, I'd say the OT is likely the slight winner here. The A4 has some nice things like macros, but with the OT the sky's the limit as far as sound design goes. Assuming you like the idea of sampling. If you want synths in a box, then the A4 will be more natural.

Octatrack/E2s user here... Love the the combo. Midi sync is tight. 8 track midi sequencer on the octatrack can control any channel on the E2s (arps and pattern chaining woo hoo!)
8 audio tracks on octatrack can do pretty much anything but chords so the E2S has been a big help here.
Having drum shots and single cycles playing on e2 really frees up the octatrack for whatever you want to do (stem playback, one shot trig beat mangling, flex recording live played loops from the e2...)
Again, absolutely love this combo!

Octatrack owner, previous owner of E2, frequent user of A4 through my friend.

Octatrack, absolutely. Feeding it with whatever you come up with from the E2, opens up tracks, possibilities and amazing performance and composition options, not to mention additional effects such as master compression and EQ, and so on.

The A4, for all that it is, is another synth. Which you already have. Granted, they are different in many ways. But the E2 sounds pretty good, despite that it has maybe one tenth of the A4:s depth, so you'd be getting more synth, but not so much more than that.

The Octatrack, however, is something else. It's a world of its own and the E2 will love you for showing it this world.

Thx guys, i'll probably go for the OT first, but eventually i'll get em both.

Whats the verdict on wich volca to go with the e2 in the meanwhile?
The sample or the keys?

The bass! But that's just me!

I would say Octatrack for sure.

First of all if you get comfortable with real time sampling (one shot recorder trigs), you can grab samples of the pattern playing on your E2 and a quick flick of the fader and it will be playing immediately on the Octatrack. Then you can queue up a new pattern or save the current one on the E2 without those annoying gaps. Plus, rather than just play the straight pattern, you could have it sliced up and re-triggered on a flex track for instant remix. And if you have two patterns that are synthy with a key change between them, you could load them into two patterns on the OT and chain them for 8 bars while the E2 does straight drums. (or even one pattern on 1/2 time).

I run all my gear into the OT and it's super fun to grab stuff in real time and immediately begin manipulating it in real time via recorder buffers and sample tracks. It also has a pretty solid reverb so you don't have to waste the single Master FX slot on the E2, etc.

The A4 is fun, but the OT is a better companion 'cause it will make the E2 better by pretty much compensating for 100% of it's weaknesses.