I toltally agree with that 
Yes, I understand. I like on the OG Tracker all the pads, quick and very useful way to enter notes and values, and great to control performance mode. So I think the PT Mini is a kind of regression regarding this. It’s why I think it could be compared to the M8 since the PT Mini seems to loose the fun workflow that the OG have.
You can only build the headless M8 version yourself. This is a much different beast than the M8 itself.
Whether or not you like it is another matter of course.
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That Polyend reply is borderline offensive. And I’m in total agreement with everything you wrote.
Companies should not fob off poorly manufactured products to punters, and as customers we should never let them get away with it. It makes me very angry just thinking about how TE has never changed the OP-Z and still feels morally comfortable to selling something they know is/can be defective. I’d love to flog mine but who wants to buy a warped piece of tat (regardless of all the wonderful things it can do). ‘Lack of pride’ sums it up perfectly. In TE’s case there is a lot of ego and arrogance. They once replied to someone’s complaints with “We stand by all our products”. Hilarious.
I’ve been scouting through what little videos are up on YT about the Mini, looking for close-up shots. There’s sod all, although in FreeBeats 1st impressions one you can see that the side seams don’t match and there is also gaps around the screen.
So…
please can anyone upload a few close-up pics of their unit, preferably one that is perfect…
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@2.22.
The seam and also the row of buttons under the screen. Janky.
Everything about this looks like a beta tester unit.
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I thought I’d share my thoughts on the Polyend Backstage forum. Nothing outrageous, just a few observations. My account is now ‘temporarily on hold’.
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Thanks for sharing this. In the past Polyend has been quiet aggressive about trying to erradicate negative responses, and I honestly thought it had come to a halt since I’ve been pretty outspoken on their forum as well - I’ve not been suspended, though.
I get that they are trying to avoid too much negative attention on their own website, but it really paints a grim picture when they completely try and silence negative criticism rather than acknowledging the fact that, yes, things could be better, but this is what we’re doing going forwards.
Too bad, really.
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them bendy buttons looks cheap as 
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That is really NOT a good look (whether the hold was from polyend employee or other moderator)
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This may be a glitch as I’ve never posted on their forum before. So I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt for now haha
They are. They sound dreadful, they feel poor and the transportation distance is twice as much as it needs two be. So the perfect combo of poor design (in my book anyway) and poorly produced.
A kind volunteer moderator has PM’d me to look into it:)
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This makes the Push 3 seem reasonably priced. 
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Hi, I’m a volunteer moderator on Polyend Backstage, not affiliated with them. I hope it is ok to post here to clarify a couple of things.
Polyend is promoting Backstage to every Tracker Mini owner. I bet they would prefer negative/critical feedback to be posted on their forum, where they and other Mini users can respond and turn issues into logged bug reports.
That would be awful indeed but this is not what is happening. The only content that has been moderated there has been the type of language that clashes with the forum guidelines and would be moderated in any friendly space. In fact, I haven’t seen any other forum where staff of a company with more than five people is as involved with all kinds of feedback as they are.
About @jim, I reached out and the problem was solved minutes after he reported it here. Discourse (the forum software) had caught their message automatically, believing it could be a spam message (“too fast typing” from a newly created account).
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It may be a little pricey but isn’t the hardware quality?
With Elektron, you know you will have a solid, well manufactured machine.
(For my money, in terms of splendidly solid manufacturing, I’d go with the Toraiz SP-16. I flippin’ adore that machine. It just feels so right, sexy, sleek and modern. According to a certain employee of a certain company there is hardly any profit margin to be made on selling Pioneer gear).
I can confirm this 100% and I was far too quick to be cynical earlier. And also now happier that my typing could be classed as fast (even if I’ve never hit more than a dozy drugged up sloth-speed pace when attempting to type)
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Tough crowd !!
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Nah…you buy a ticket to watch a Billy Wilder film and end up with a drunken projectionist who reels up The Room instead. Which may be equally as funny, but for for not the right intentions.
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