Depends completely on your skill level and imagination, but it's perfectly capable of creating full tracks if you have the right samples and the musical ability. My brother does live sets and psytrance tracks which wouldn't sound out of place on an album or in a club.
The Digitakt is marketed as a "drum machine", but that barely scratches the surface of what it's capable of - e.g. it has synth capabilities by using the built-in single-cycle waveforms (or any other sample you upload if tweaked correctly), and can act as the "brain" of a bigger hardware setup as along with the 8 audio tracks, it has 8 polyphonic midi tracks as well, so can sequence and control 8 other bits of kit.
There are plenty of videos on Youtube from people with far more ability & experience with it from me which show what it's capable of, but anything from glitchy ambient to house, techno, drum n bass, dubstep etc.
As far as learning to make EDM, as with anything, it completely depends how much you want to spend
You could just go for a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) - pretty sure there are some free ones out there, although I'm not sure what the learning curve is like (I've had a look at Ableton a couple of times and decided it looked too much like "work"
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Otherwise, a "groovebox" is a good/cheap way to get started - basically a self contained device which can do full tracks on its own, e.g. the Novation Circuit (OG or Tracks), Roland MC-101, Digitakt, Akai MPC Live. You're looking at a budget of ~150-£700, depending on what you go for and new or 2nd hand. Gabe Miller on Youtube has some great videos comparing the various options and going into them in depth, e.g.:
As I put in the previous post, I prefer getting hands on rather than using a DAW, as it feels more like playing an instrument than "producing music" (the bonus is, the hardware tends to keep its value if you get bored or don't get on with something and decide to sell it on, whereas you can't sell on a soft synth!).
I've only really been doing it for a year or so, and having kids doesn't leave much time for it, but trying to take it a bit more seriously recently and I've been trying to do a bit of psybient/chilled ambient stuff, e.g. Solar Fields, Aes Dana etc. - I'm not out to make money from it or anything, just for personal enjoyment.
Shameless plug of the first "proper" track I did, using an OG Circuit, Circuit Mono Station (and a bit of reverb from my mixer). It's very rough around the edges, and certainly nothing close to a professional level, but I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.
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