I’ve never owned a sampler before. I have a M:S coming tomorrow.
I have a Digitone and a M:C. I went back and forth on the M:S vs a used Digitakt, but ultimately decided I prefer the (near) knob-per-feature of the M:S to the flexibility of the Digitakt.
That said, I have no idea what I’m going to do with it. Should be fun!
The M:S is heaps of fun. I occasionally miss it’s intentional simplicity and clarity of design.
It’s just you and six tracks of samples and a handful of parameter tweaks, 15 knobs and that’s all you’ve got.
You can use it as a straight up sample playing drum machine and probably get your money worth. Or go full “groovebox” with it and splash in melodic parts, sample locks, and p-lock the hell out of it.
Ahhh now I’m missing selling mine…
M:S is a sample player.
It is not a sampler in the sense of “a machine that can both record and play sample”, like the common definition.
Embrace the distorsion, and the crazy fast workflow.
Don’t worry too much about the limitations: you know there are more powerful machines, but pushing an instrument to its limits is a very nice thing to do!
Check Takeo Watanabe’s channel, he has many videos, and different styles, based on Model:Samples
Came here to say that.
Basically, have fun. It will be fun to play with the samples but editing of samples and any prep work will need to be, or at least you’ll want to do, on the computer.
If you’re familiar with the form factor, I’m sure it will be great for you. @Leonsarmiento can really freak the M:S so maybe he has some workflow tips for you. Good luck!
D’oh! You can see how little I know about samplers/players. I definitely knew the M:S didn’t sample and plan to make my own in Logic.
The last sampler I actually used was a Kurzweil k2600 (?) in the 90s. It wasn’t for me, but a sequencer to play/mangle samples should be.
Yes. M:S does everything:
M:S arrived today. Since I know the M:C well getting going with it was really fast.
I already recorded and loaded some samples from Logic. I found that really easy to do.
This is going to be fun!
First sketch with the M:S. I sampled my ukulele and sequenced that. Mangled that some while playing the Moog. Then overdubbed a live uke part over that.
…that’s pretty neat…especially given the fact, that ur new sampler is just a sample player and always need to be fed with external sample sources first…
great little tune…
errr, and u might to be new to samplers…but ur defenitly not new to the game… 
Beautiful!
i finally got one recently after years of using M:C and have been making weird vaporwave / signalwave adjacent loops