I think it’s more a question of how you use sampling. There isn’t any one right way to use a sampler.
I don’t sample from records or make loops or chop up breakbeats. But I use a lot of sampled instruments on the computer, Kontakt libraries and things like that. Bread and butter stuff like electric pianos, organs, orchestral instruments, etc. I also have a lot of synths and acoustic instruments, percussion and things in my studio that are fun to sample. So I’ve been using Move primarily to sample kits of my own sounds into drum racks and sequence them.
The ease of use and the power of how many voices you can have are its biggest strengths to me. My only other real sampler is an Octatrack and I think Move blows it away for actual sampling (not for looping, live fx, scenes, etc).
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OT can’t play back samples polyphonically.
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If you’re just doing simple drum machine style one shot playback, 8 tracks of the OT is equivalent to half of one Drum Rack on Move.
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On Move you can sample into a pad effortlessly without having to worry about saving or naming. You can even sample over an existing pad and the previous file will still be on your Move so there’s no risk of losing recordings like there is on the OT. I mean look at this post from earlier today as a testament to how convoluted basic sampling is on the OT.
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The biggest advantage of the OT for sampling is the proper 1/4" mono inputs rather than the stereo minijack (I hate it) and the fact that you can record 4 channels at once which isn’t something very important imo if you’re just sampling different sounds and building up kits and libraries.
But really it’s the whole package. The sampler and the power of the sequencer combined, the form factor, and Live integration. If it was just a sampler module with no sequencer I would have no use for it.