Does it even have envelopes? I remember reading the original Play lacked them, and thinking it made the Model:Samples look like a top end sampler
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Tge synth engines have 3 envelopes… so the internal synths look pretty impressive actually, if you don’t mind the menu diving to patch them
Edit: thankfully this is not the case.
Oh man, I completely missed that. Ouch.
What about for samples? What about using SCW?
You need the Polyend Play ++ for that! 
Comes out 2025.
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It’s probably the same as before
Play++ ADSR Special Edition
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You can have 3 synth parts per project, they just share the 8 voices.
That’s quite reasonable and similar to a Digitone in that regard.
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It looks like you just can’t swap patches like crazy and that the one you’ve chosen for one of the 3 parts stays
The menu diving for synth patch programming looks like soooo much fun. It’s always funny to me when people say Elektron boxes are menu divey. No… THIS is what menu diving looks like.
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Man I gotta admit, as someone who was super excited about the play and really loves the play, flaws and all, this really stung to see lol.
It’s nice there’s an upgrade option but…yikes. I understand why people feel salty.
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I could throw my octatrack in the sea and it still wouldn’t lose value as quickly as the Polyend play has.
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So how often do you change projects?
you made it seem like it was just one synth part per song, chill doggy
At the risk of sounding like I have sour grapes- watching the loopop video, the updates don’t seem as great as I thought. A lot of the really fun parameters don’t apply to the synths, including performance mode.
I really love the Play, I think it’s an amazing piece of gear. I’m happy I have one…still I understand all the people annoyed and frustrated at this release.
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Customer friendly upgrade? Really?
I like his videos but using the platform as a Polyend hype train cheapens the rest of his content. I realize he gets paid to do these but god… video seems scummy.
It’s less customer friendly and more company friendly. His argument for e-waste only really benefits Polyend as they sell you a new piece of gear of $400 (you’re now invested $1200 on a thing that’s a year and a half old) and they can clean up and reuse your old Play and sell it for $500.
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I really enjoy my Play when i use it and fortunately don’t care for the new features. Releasing a new version after only one year indeed seems strange. I hope they still do some upgrades for the OG version but i doubt it. I like the creative potential that Polyend put into their devices but their business strategies are a bit weird.
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Glad you posted this. Funny how my post earlier got reported for calling him out!
Ben Jordan really has to be on Polyend’s payroll. Beyond Shameless.
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