The buttons are 100% ABS with laser engravings. Elektron said they are tested with a duration of 50 million presses. I was raised on rubber pads but since it has no velocity, I guess its gonna be alright. SP1200 has plastic buttons too
Its getting flack from other forums because of it only has 2 outs, people expecting an MPC. Also because of the 64MB limitation and other things. Personally, to me, its a dope little machine with limitations that can probably expand one's creativity. How many samplers were limited and now are mythical creatures.
With the right marketing and right users to demo the Digitakt, this can rival the SP-404SX and perhaps create its own cult following.
At first, the vision was to be a drum machine that can sample and samples were to be limited to oneshots and gates but now Elektron changed it to a full fledge sampler with drum capabilities.
Still waiting on a demo video, we might see that during Musikmesse in 2 weeks.