Elektron
The Gothenburg company whose drum machines and samplers are built around a sequencer in which every step can carry its own settings.
Elektron started in the late 1990s with the SidStation, a synth built around the Commodore 64's sound chip. The Machinedrum followed in 2001, then the Monomachine and, in 2010, the Octatrack, a sampler that became a Swiss army knife for live sets. The Digitakt of 2017 brought the concept down in price and became the company's most widespread machine.
What ties it all together is the sequencer and its parameter locks: any knob can be pinned to its own value on a single step, so filter, pitch or sample change character from hit to hit. The result is patterns that are hard to build in an ordinary DAW and hard to learn on the box itself — Elektron's menus have a reputation. Overbridge connects the machines to a computer as plug-ins.