Setting up slices on the OT is very quick and easy, once you get into the groove 
Itās somehow satisfying tooā¦
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This is a 100% doable thing.
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The OT is a bit more complex than the rest of the devices. I thought the MPC and the OT are about the same price wise. But yes, the MPC is an overkill.
ā¦ with the caveat that that method works best if you have a series of one-shots in a sample file. If you have a rrhhyytthhmm loop, you might prefer to tell the OT the beginning and end of the loop, and how many bars that is, and let it timestretch for you.
(Iām writing this just in case you are imagining the slices similar to warp markers in Live, which theyāre not.)
Ha! you beat me to itā¦ 
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They are in fact loops.
Well actually right now they are full on songs but im planning to cut out some instrumental section for looping.
Those sections however will slightly very in tempo within themselves since they are played by a band without metronome.
Honestly if you donāt mind looking at a DAW for a few minutes, the Digitakt has served as a great sampler for me. It gives me all of the basic functions I need (plus some other nifty tools), fast workflow, and cheaper than the Octatrack. Any time stretching and oddity flavoring I need from the sample(s) I set it up in Ableton, which honestly is easy and takes up very little of my time.
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Everybody needs an Octatrack !
And nothing else. 
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If you edit the loops in a DAW you can load them right into Rytm, as long as you keep the Rytm at the same bpm as your edited sample.
If you want you can experiment with AR pseudo timestretch techniques:
-Timestretch
An OT would probably work for you and most likely provide all sorts of new ideas to utilize in your music, but I already sense resistance in your posts; wanting it to be easy, painless, fufill all of your wishes, etcā¦ The OT wonāt like this attitude, it requires you to work a bit when learning it, but will reward you with much more than you expected if you put in the effortā¦ Itās not as difficult as people make it seem but still itās much better to go into it with an attitude of āOK, Iāve got a new complex machine to learn and after I do itās going to be creative and fun for my musicā than āOK, this machine will make my music creation easierāā¦
With practice itās easy, in the beginning itās notā¦
I second @jb 's idea of uploading a loop and see if someone will timestretch it to a desired tempo so you can see how it sounds. Even though you want to use many loops you could still get a good idea of the algorithm by hearing one as an example. Iād do it but Iām not with my OT. There are two settings for the timestretch, Normal and Beat, and there is a transient detection knob. Itās quite possible playing with those settings could get you better results, but hearing some kind of example would get you an idea of the soundā¦
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That was my suggestion ā¦ but have you considered, what you could do with the OT?
Since the timing and the timbre would fit best to your needs after DAW processing you can
- upload the sample to the OT,
- have huge data amount with the āstatic-machineā, which is streaming directly from the Flash-Drive
- you donāt need to replay the sample as is all the time, you can slice, mangle, and more ā¦
and have lotās of creative ideas and much fun 
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you should put a burn warning on that hot fire!
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DAW sounds like the best solutionā¦ I feel most of the āShould I get X to do Yā questions can be answered with just use a DAW.
IF youāre interested in the device as WHOLE, to be added to your creative processā¦ then get it. If youāre trying to achieve this one thing cuz you have a CD, then I donāt feel its justifiable.
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