Any chance you already tried to play it connected with the Syntakt also ? Are Pattern Change on time via midi ?
I still have the OT and the Tracker at home but I am thinking of flipping both to stay just with the Syntakt and the Tracker Mini as a good middle ground.
No midi implemented yet. I really like using the tracker as a basic sampler as it makes me think differently about audio playback.
I also like the idea of generating quick ideas with it on the train
Anyone here owning both the PTM and the Syntakt? Curious to hear if they can talk to each other over USB like the iPad can. So, using a usb-c-to-b cable between the two and eg using the PTE as a midi slave and triggering samples via a midi track on the Syntakt and getting the PTE audio as the Syntakt’s USB audio in.
One of the two needs to be a USB host (the iPad is, that’s why it and Tracker can communicate).
None of the Elektron boxes are USB hosts (I haven’t checked the Syntakt specifically, but I’ll be surprised if it deviates from all the other elektron boxes). So unless the Tracker is a USB host this won’t work.
Does the tracker product page or manual mention anything about this?
Pretty sure this is correct. Without extra boxes you are limited to MIDI.
So… Where are all the reviews of this in the real world? Is it still out of stock or are people not buying this thing?
Sweetwater just shipped mine a couple days ago so I think they’re slowly making their way out there now.
What an odd way to release this. It’s like they deflated all possible hype to the point where I thought it was already out and people just didn’t seem to like it. You never want to give an impression your product has flopped without it even being released…
I think companies small or large need to start learning from the apple way on this. For the most part, they announce a product, they do preorders a few days later, product is released starting the next week or 2. Ableton did something similar with Push 3. They announced it and it was pretty much ready to ship. And I’ll be honest, had push 3 been announced and ready to ship 6 months later, I eventually would have over thought it and chickened out. But it was available, I got caught in the hype and bought it. With the tracker mini, I was ready to pull the trigger when they announced it, now I’m over it and happy with an M8.
Ableton and Apple are much bigger companies.
I imagine this isn’t what Polyend wanted to do I expect they just got screwed over by something in the manufacturing, or supply chain.
Making small volume hardware is really difficult. Just think how it’s really hard to even buy a Micromonsta or M8
For real. I would have expected a few of the usual review channels to have gotten one by now but I haven’t seen anything (not that I bothered looking, as I unsubscribed from many of them).
I think they might be trolling, especially since they chose Bad Gear for release review (remember their comment about attracting trolls?). If that is the case, I kind of like their sense of humor 
I don’t think the m8 is unobtainium anymore. I think supply has caught up with demand, or perhaps demand has plateaued, because the latest preorder has been open for a long time now, the first units from the latest batch are about to ship out, and the preorder window has not closed.
I know because I ordered one in early August and have been tracking it compulsively, hanging on every crumb of non-existent news. 
Free Beat got one from Polyend, and put out a few videos with it, so there’s probably not any kind of ban on people talking about it. He has an hour long stream poking around with it, and he compared it with the SmplTrek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aim3oolG25c
It’s probably tough to find people to give early builds to who will actually show it off. Or very hard since none of them have.
Mine arrived. I’m out of town though and it’s in its box waiting for me to come home.
I certainly find the YT silence un-nerving. It’s the polar-opposite from the Play when almost everyone was bombing it with videos. Would any YTber give us an insight to what’s been going on?
I’ve read a few comments saying that the screen is sub-standard, the buttons are mushy, and most worryingly of all; one user sending their’s back because the back was warped! Flippin’ red flags flying full-mast at the mo for me!
Could it be that Polyend aren’t shipping to the usual suspects as the product just isn’t ready yet?
Sounds more dnb than rave to me 
i just picked one up from BopDJ this week.
and I have not enjoyed using it at all!!!
going to be returning it.
For those interested my main points of unhappiness are …
I’m hearing divided opinions about it, to the point that a reviewer or two have decided to wait a little and see how things develop.
That Jordan fella’s unbiased endorsement didn’t help either, I think.
That was a biggie for me with the PT when I had it. Got to the point where I just didn’t go there at all with it as it just interrupted the flow way too much