Ok, first impressions, and a few answers:
After a bit of head scratching about how to access samples, I managed to load a few in and make a very baby steps pattern.
P-Locks work exactly the way you know and love, scenes are a snap and are assigned like a p-lock - hold down scene button, tweak what you want, release scene, stored.
Each track can have its own meter, divisions (more than MD) and number of steps, or it can follow the pattern default, I curiously tested the number of steps allowed for a track and it went upto 1024, I did not test playback of this but it seems a pattern could be say 64 steps and one or any/all of the tracks could loop around at upto 1024 steps, and with tempo divisors too. Please don't take this as gospel, as I did not test properly, but will try to do so later (or if anyone else wants to chime in)
Each track can access multiple samples, upto 128, not found out about polyphony yet though.
LFO designer per track can be freely assigned to other tracks so 8 custom LFOs, simple to edit.
Sound quality seems great, not sampled anything yet though, just played back some of the included ones, but everything is loud and crystal clear, I will do some a/b stuff later.
The arranger is like song mode on the MD/MnM but with some extras, all the usual stuff plus scenes per row, so very flexible.
It seems quite deep and daunting at first, but I only had an hour so should know more later, but rest assured this is very much an Elektron machine and all the conventions and operationl niceties are there, as well as plenty of extras.
The filter seems very nice, and quite versatile with nice resonance for acid heads
Sounds a bit more refined than the MD filter so far, but can get very nasty too!
I really hope you all get yours ASAP as I am pretty certain you WILL love it. Worth every penny!
Back in a few hours, sorry if I did not cover everything!
