what are the issues with the tracker OG one?, what flaws are we talking about besides ram
So for a $400 upgrade you get the following features:
. Stereo Samples
. 6 minutes of audio via Mono or 3 minutes as Stereo
. 4 retro Synth engines (which take up to 4 of the MIDI channels, if you elect to use all of them on your song)
. Audio over USB (only from the device to the computer, not round trip like other USB instruments)
. And…what else am i missing?
That’s the value of $400 in this day and age?
Really?
Something doesn’t feel right to me when i see these features for what they are…a software update! None of these seem worthy of a hardware update unless the company has no idea how to spec hardware for music performance in the 21st Century.
Nonsense like this makes me totally respect Elektron, Teenage Engineering, Synthstrom, DirtyWave, Akai, Roland, SonicWare and others for the great work they are doing by building products with Musicians and Tech nerds in mind.
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The chipset went from something like a 144 mhz CPU to 400-500mhz. Good scalability update.
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These are issues I personally have with mine, in no particular order :
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the offline equalizer has a ridiculously tight q factor, making it near unusable.
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the headroom is really bad, you have to turn every sample you import down 12db before starting to make music or you get distortion.
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the instrument filter will inevitably distort if you put the cutoff in the lows.
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Stem export is bugged and exported stems get out of time with each other.
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you can’t sample anything when the tracker is playing sound.
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sample playback can and will make clicks. Supposedly fixed in latest firmware but the declicking algo destroys transients.
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I’m scared of damaging the jogwheel whenever i use my tracker in a live context. I had to send it back to poland at my own cost because it stopped working.
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the midi clock is unstable and the transport control has noticeable latency. There’s even a setting that lets you dial latency compensation in the menu, their way of fixing it.
Im sure I’m forgetting some stuff because i haven’t used it in a while.
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But why make the consumer pay for that change which should have been in the hardware all along is my thought.
If cost is an issue with manufacturing use Kickstarter to Indiegogo to fund the resources needed to build the product.
I feel like the last 3 years with PE has been hardware and software Beta testing to fund them to get to this stage…but the past track record of shipping product to Legacy product status so quickly doesn’t make me hopeful for the future.
I makes me wonder if the rumor of them using University students to code their gear is true.
Everyone needs to shillax if you ask me!
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It’s been going on longer than 3 years. Medusa came out in 2018 and had similar issues with bugs and QC. Pretty sure their standalone sequencers have as well. I really just think this is how they’ve opperated and I believe it’s been going on since the beginning.
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Yeah. I only went as far back as the products i own from them.
But I’m done. No more PE gear in my house.
Dude, shill out 
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Take a shill pill
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Okay this is what they should have done. As a gesture of goodwill all existing owners get a Free upgrade for having faith in the Polyend Play when a lot of people rubbished it.
they did fix the headroom thing on the latest firmware, it still aint something like a digitakt or OT but it sure sounds much better now.
• the eq still doesn’t work, 3 years after release?
• live recording of notes just straight sucks, it’s very unreliable, it usually ends up ignoring all input, unless you restart transport. (this is something i have reported since 2021)
• indeed, zero-crossing thing fix they implemented seems to cut out sharp transients, very weird and something they still haven’t adressed from latest firmware.
• they changed the volume curves for the Roll FX, on earlier firmwares it was way more pleasant.
• the filter absolutely sucks, it just usually clips very harshly.
• going back from perform mode to normal pattern view sometimes ends me up with a blank pattern? i have never understood this one
• UIX bugs (slices don’t light up while recording) and a plethora of other issues.
• weird midi clock is indeed a thing
;i should probably record a video compiling all these issues
i don’t hate the tracker, i’ve already used it for a bunch of my tracks, made whole songs with it, but it just saddens me to see the amount of unachieved potential, and overall stability. i still don’t feel confident in using the thing live.
and the same story is repeating for the Play, and even worse. i just think they are biting more than they can chew. they should have tackled all bugs first then start developing these more pro versions later, on top of the stable firmware they’ve created. because they certainly have a mess now.
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How much shill would a ‘Tube shill shill if a ‘Tube shill could shill shills?
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Can i make Shill Ambient with the Plus?
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Shanax?
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I can only imagine if Behringer did something like this, synthfluencers would be calling them out publically and be making videos on it.
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From now on it’s shillfluencers 
That would be a deal-breaker for me, for sure (the midi clock). My Tracker has been stable as a sequencer, following either Logic or Pyramid. I don’t use it as master.