You can have unlimited tracks essentially, until the cpu can’t handle it but I never really hit that wall and at that point it’ll just start voice stealing.
It streams audio from the SD card so you don’t have to worry about RAM like on the MPC. It also handles multi-sample instruments and includes 4 synth engines (subtractive, FM, Ring mod, and wavetable).
It’s definitely a competitor but it does have limits. I don’t think the sound engine is super incredible. You can’t change the path of the effects. There’s no really any easy way to export tracks except to resample. Slicing still needs work as you basically set how many slices you want and then you have to manually edit afterwards, there’s no lazy chopping or anything like that.
That said this thing is actually portable thanks to its size, compared to the MPC Live and Live 2 which might have a battery but are way too big to take on something like a plane or even in a car ride, in my opinion.
I would say it’s a lot more fun than an MPC but I also dislike the MPC lineup quite a bit. But I sold my second Deluge as well and a screen isn’t enough to get me to buy a third one.