Is it possible to sequence the internal synth and bounce that, and use it on a drumtrack as sample then?
It can’t sample anything, internally or external. It’s a sample player
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Yeah, it can’t resample like the Tracker unfortunately, maybe they’ll add a feature in a firmware update?
I see, would be good for it.
Would be cool if they could put a drum synth for that purpose into it too.
They do have more synth engines in the works, so maybe one of them is sample based? maybe a 2osc sample engine, where you can load Single cycle waveforms or other samples like in the Deluge.
Are you sure about that?
You can export stems to wav, right?
WTF Polyend, what are you doing…?
First, the mk1 / 2 / 3 for the Tracker, each time with cheaper materials + all the dodgy wheels + a firmware so buggy that they remove feats as they go along instead of adding new ones.
Then, a Mini with better specs but back to shitty hardware…
Now, a Play+ released with absolutely unacceptable conditions for the previous users…
Way to go!
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I’m not sure I agree with that.
I think the superiority of the metal back PT thing is just hype.
I have a plastic one and it’s really nicely made and I think the jog wheel problems were more common in the earlier ones.
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Just wait until the Play+ Field colab is announced by TE on Thursday. Hell will break loose.
Yeah, I had a mk3 as well and nothing but good things to say about the hardware (much less about the firmware, unfortunately). But it is kind of worrying that they had to go through 3 versions before solving the wheels / materials problems. Lots of users had broken wheels during the mk1 & 2 lifecycles. I mean, c’mon, it’s not a highschool project or prototypes. Common sense suggestes that you try the fuck out of the product you release BEFORE you release it.
Edit : what irks me the most is: you can fuck up one product and learn as you go along. Not ideal, but the last years were not optimal for product dev. But first batch of Minis is AGAIN full of defects.
Mmm so they withheld the real 399 upgrade price from him.
Good on Loopop for being empathetic to the OG play users. Massively respect him for being so transparent.
As for Polyend, I feel there should be laws protecting consumers from being misled in the way Polyend misled their customers.
Said it earlier in the thread: getting strong pump and dump vibes from Polyend
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Now a “+” version??? It’s like they don’t know what they want it to be. The + version still only has knob labels for the sampler page. Seems like they should have divided it up into 2 or maybe even 3 devices: a sampler, a MIDI controller, and then a synth. Could have had one device with one page, with proper labeling. Doesn’t make sense. 
Because the hardware and some of the concepts stand out, but the final product is a head scratcher.
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Just to be clear, is this your understanding of a shill?
shill
an accomplice of a confidence trickster or swindler who poses as a genuine customer to entice or encourage others
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You didn’t state it as an opinion but rather as a fact. And to suggest something like that as a fact without actual facts and it in fact being untrue is simply toxic.
He likes polyend stuff and gets their gear for free. That we know. So yes he is biased. So what ? You can still either check a video and get informed or eh not.
So here we go: I’ve gotten the play and now play+ from polyend as well. No strings attached. I don’t need to make a video. Completely my choice if I do or not and what I say in the video or not. Do I like it? Not sure yet. Haven’t had the time to touch them yet. If I make a video it will be a demonstration rather than review, but still, in this case, am I a shill just for having received these units and if I am maybe positive about them ?
It’s okay to share an opinion but to paint someone in such a bad light is actually hurting someone and in this case it’s also pretty obvious that is not based on anything other than his bias towards polyend gear. Which is not the same as being a shill at all.
He doesn’t pose as a customer, he clearly states every time he gets the gear for free and was asked to do a video. You could maybe say he is an external marketeer for polyend that works for…free…. Not a shill.
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The problem people are having is not with Benn(although I do think he could have shown a bit more empathy towards users like Loopop did, he is free to whatever he wants).
Benn does not deserve the hate and threats he’s been getting.
As for Polyend, they 100% deserve to be called out after misleading customers.
The fact that they also chose to misinform Loopop is disgusting.
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I’m confused as to why people are being distracted with this ben stuff considering what loopop said. Your thoughts about Ben don’t really matter do they? In the grand scheme of things? Over the years we’ve seen crap practices come into play. Akai misleading the ram of the mpc live. TE letting a rumor run and then upping the price etc etc.
I think 199 (would have been ) still too much tbh, and that obviously don’t include shipping - insured or otherwise…so very strange…and greedy. Polyend have to know it. It’s one thing to undermine a product. It’s another to destroy the second hand market. If they were upfront that’s different…to try to charge what they are charging plus the shipping - insurance…they are out of their minds. They know full well, many people would have waited. It seems they’ve managed to create an unsatisfactory scenario all round don’t it?
How exactly is Polyend misleading customers?
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