on the sweetwater 2. and 3. photo all 8 tracks are visible in mixer and song mode
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Thanks. Yeah. Just saw that. Just not mentioned.
Also i assume it does midi over USB but it’s just not mentioned as well.
on second thought, i think i’ll wait for Renoise to implement gamepad support so I can build my own raspberry pi based Renoise Tracker Mini 
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Yeah I know, but I was thinking a mk2 model of the original Tracker with the extra sampling time and other internal hw spec updates, not a v2 of the software
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Same here, but not vs the M8 but the SP-404, where I found the PT surprisingly easy to grasp despite being my first tracker experience. Which does not take away from the M8 (or the 404) which I’m sure I’d enjoy too.
I wonder if there’s a good tracker for 2nd hand MacBook Air m1 for around similar $$$$ or surface pro etc
Seems a bit expensive but I hope it’s a success for them and anyone buying it gets all their desires in firmware v1
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Yeah, that’s gonna hurt them hard. I am very spec savvy and will often pay a premium for smaller, lighter, faster, but based on the name and appearance, I assumed a lower spec, not higher.
This product range sounds like iPad Pro, iPad, iPad Mini, with this one at the bottom and Tracker in thr middle.
They should have called it Tracker 2 Lite or Tracker Pro.
Not sure exactly what you’re saying here but my #1 software tracker recommendation will always be Renoise.
Buzz is better for experimental stuff, PC only though and can be a bit unstable.
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will PE do the needful and add tables? could be the big competition point. im sure they dont want to jack that much swag tho
[shudder] that’s giving me flashbacks to my time spent trying to love the Tracker and build stuff on it.
Why are all the blocks in the song view just white rectangles conveying zero information, it has a colour display but they make almost no use of it anywhere in the UI. Sorry just grumbling and going off topic, but the missed opportunities just scream everywhere you look
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This!
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Yeah. Looks like the same arbitrary decision to only allow 8 tracks. So weird that they don’t offer 8 Audio and 8 Midi on this version.
It makes perfect sense so you can truly expand the production nature of things with this device.
Hope I’m wrong.
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I don’t get the “better” they have different workflows. I like them both. It doesn’t have to be a competition between them.
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i can’t believe they really are marketing “no clicks” “bigger headroom” “premium stereo” as features of this. feels like a huge kick in the balls, specially after having the OG still be completely filled with so many bugs that hinder the experience tremendously. the thing doesn’t even have a working EQ (since the first firmware) shame on these people. i’m selling this thing and i’m done with Polyend.
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M8 needs to ramp up production cause they got this 
Polyend has had over 3 years of user feedback and this is what they deliver in what is their mk2 Tracker. Really?
This?
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Those are words from Sweetwater’s writers I think, not marketing copy from Polyend
Wow - didn’t they ever fix the hilariously broken EQ effect?! (which at their own admission “did nothing”)
yup, still not fixed. together with the ultra unresponsive live recording that’s been broken since forever.
i really dont get how the “mini” is more pro than the flagship? i’m so pissed at this, i really feel like i got ripped off 
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I wouldn’t be embarrassed to get the Tracker Mini out in public for one thing
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