How Frustrating Is The Sequentix Cirklon? 

the 3+ year waiting list is the most frustrating aspect of the Cirklon! No other sequencer has this much hype and wait.

As a Cirklon user, I can attest to needing to take time to learn the machine and even now, after 8 years with it, I am still learning what i can do with certain features and indeed discovering features I have never explored before. I have to respectfully disagree with you, for me, Cirklon is actually a lot of music making fun. For my fairly substantial time investment, it has paid me back many times over. if you haven't made it to pay back, IMO it's a question of either investing more to get there or giving up now. I would suggest you go more, especially if you're an IT guy as lots of logic to play with and the results are worth it IMO.

I got my Cirklon at the end of 2022 after close to a 5 year wait. As luck would have it, I actually ended up winning a Perfect Circuit contest for the Torso T-1 a few months later. Having just gotten the Cirklon and having owned most of the most enviable sequencers out there (Pyramid, most every Elektron, other hardware I’m now forgetting, lots of eurorack, and too much software), I figured I’d sell the T-1. But I actually found it to be the perfect complement to the Cirklon. The Cirklon is very deliberate, setting up routing and parameters in advance and designed to make tracks with high complexity with a lot of gear and maybe a more old school approach in how it can favor multitimbral or rack gear. The T-1 on the other hand is more immediate in approach, easy to just sort of pick a few pieces of gear and assign them and twist some knobs to get an interesting sequence you maybe wouldn’t have otherwise found. That said, I use the Cirklon daily and find it to be the solution for me that other sequencers weren’t in the past, but on those days I just want to make some mutant techno or explore a different approach I do appreciate plugging the T-1 into my midi patchbay and seeing where it takes me.

Thanks for this

try a vector sequencer, does 80% of cirklon (and something that cirklon doesn't do, like free gate arp, more cv ins) it's smaller, cheaper and easier to work with.

Process not product is a healthy mindset for sure

If I want to control, say 16 tracks on the Digitakt, would I create an instrument for each track, labelled "Drums", with a dedicated channel? Or would I create a single instrument then have each track between the Cirklon and Digitakt mapped to the same channel?

does it have polyrhythm and interpolation like Toraiz Squid?

What is that thing you have to mount your pedals on? I've been searching forever for somehting to mount them on - other than a shelf. I've always considered the Cirklon as unobtainium - so why bother? And yeah... screw the menu diving. I bought a SQ-64 and used it for a while and now it sits in some drawer somewhere. I own a MachineDrum (the original) and I can just sit down and get things done immediately.

Have you used/tried/considered a modular sequencer ?

Elektron is the way to go

Your right. Its work like sitting behind a desk. No spontaneity.