I was referring to the Tracker, which, if I remember correctly, started shipping last May.
My apologies - I misread your post.
Also, I canāt believe the Tracker is already one year old! Sheesh.
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Waitā¦ there IS a stem export function on BlackBox? I must have missed it in the manual, unless youāre referring to recording to an empty pad or resampling, which are different than stem export in my view.
[edit: Iām talking about BlackBox, not Polyend Trackerā¦ maybe Iām misunderstandingā¦]
Resampling track by track isnāt an option, no? Too much of a chore? I get that, if it is.
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I do think itās a chore to play through an entire song 16x in order to export stems.
Your workflow is ideal. I wish I could āperformā a take to a stereo track via analog mixer then call it a day, maybe some Isotopeā¦ But whenever Iāve done that, Iām always dissatisfied with something in the mix or arrangement. I like finishing in a DAW.
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Yeah, I can imagine thatād be a drain. The three stereo outs are your friend, though. With them, I can split up the song into six individual outputs and sum them in the SiX. Itās the conceptual equivalent of a six track workflow in a daw, but with no total recall of mixer and master settings once youāre done. And with like veeery few features to work with, in comparison. That happens to fit me quite well, since I donāt know much about mixing and mastering. With lesser options and knobs to tweak, in theory, thereās less mistakes made. In theory 
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Itās an interesting approach. Your finished music reflects success in that regard. Maybe I should give it a try.
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Thank you <3
Itās a process born from need. I have nothing against daws, I just canāt figure them out. Try as I might. Theyāre too crowded for my OCD brain.
A few buttons and knobs, neatly lined up, and no options to add or remove plug-ins ā¦ thatās why my mind can handle.
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Those three stereo outs donāt even call me anymore. Friends? Pffft. Acquaintances at best.
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Downright rude of them, Iād say. Typical snobbish stereo behaviour. Mono is much nicer.
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Yeah, itās just that, stereo always seemed so cool, and a bit edgy. Guess Iāll call Digitakt to hang out this week.
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Did someone here swap from bb to bitbox to stay in the modular?
Question from a prospective buyer: if I want to build a drum kit on a single sample slot, are these my only two options?:
- Load an entire folder of drum sounds using multimap mode.
- Load a single wav file with a sample chain using slicer mode.
To ask it another way, in multisample mode, is there any way to individually choose which samples to load on which note?
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I asked this question above also. I donāt know the answer to it yet, but if you canāt the work around that occurred to me if you really needed to make this happen is to load the samples in software assigned to different notes and then multisample that.
Wondering also if its possible to carefully setup your audio and midi settings and routing on the other 15 pads, then route audio and midi out and back in to blackbox and then multisample whatās on the other pads?
I exchanged email with Steve from Blackbox. Unfortunately, stem export is considered low priority on their list of new feature candidates.
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I wonder whatās on that list.
And whatās at the top.
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no idea, but he invited me to post the request to their forum. Itās already there 9 times at least, so I donāt see the pointā¦
Is the Keyboard/Pad input for internal sounds only? I thought i could record my playing into a sequence for ext. synth on the kb.
You can set any sample slot to output to any midi channel. So then sequencing that slot, or playing it on the KEY screen, will trigger your external synth on that midi channel.
Is it correct that the following will (probably) result in hum/a ground loop?
- Blackbox connected to a USB battery
- Synth connected to the same USB battery
- Synth audio output connected to Blackbox audio input
Thanks in advance!
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