#931

Stupid question maybe but how hard will tracker style sequencing be compared to, say, a DT?

#932

Tracker style is less direct.

The tracker inputs things via a cursor- so on a 4 beat…um…beat, you navigate to the step you want to place a trigger, and you place a trigger there.

On the Digitakt, you just trigger the things you want.

On renoise, you’re working with a keyboard so while you’re working with a cursor that cursor can assign a variety of things all at once(sample selection, note, velocity, sample play direction, retrig).

BUT the tracker can have a higher step count and…(I don’t know the workflow this thing is going to present in comparison to renoise)

Edit: I can’t emphasize this enough. I’m just a beginner, so there are more experienced people with trackers than I am. But I’ve been an elektron fanboy and I just recently jumped ship onto the Renoise/Tracker fandom. If you want to figure things out, Renoise has a 30 day free trial for you to explore

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#933

My prediction was $1,200 USD and I was on the fence about grabbing it early but if it’s $599 I will buy in a heartbeat.

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#934

If they set a price based on maximum profit return they may actually decide to go lower – excitement and demand can actually help make this more profitable at a lower price. It has to do with elasticity in price. (I imagine there are people on this forum that know a lot more about this than i.)

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#935

@Jukka you were once of the first people saying that this might actually be affordable.

If the info from the press pdfs is legit, it looks like you were right.

I’m sorry for doubting you :smiley:

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#936

btw i would go off the press release rather than the checkout. that price in the checkout is the price of the Seq and I figure they duplicated the Seq in their ecom system to create the new product but haven’t finalized the new item yet.

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#937

I like being doubted, it helps keep people on their toes. No yes men for me!
(To bad you don’t know that Donald.)

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#938

So how many times in the press release do they say “tricky tracker”? And “automagically” – you know the person doing the copy is quite fluent – probably a native speaker.

This sort of cleverness in the user interface/functional design makes this a joy to use and a real hit.

I picture this a cool thing to use as a sequencer even without all the glory of the digital sound engine inside.

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#939

Might give the Launchpad a run for its money with buyers with a bit more budget, it cost more of course with screen and all that.

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#940

May have missed it but I wish the release mentioned polyphony per track.

Edit: Also mentions reverb send but no mention of delay :thinking:

#941

Damn COVID-19 came at a bad time. This will most surely be delayed, since Poland is in quarantine.

#942

Unless the suppliers are already in possession of it. Sweetwater is one of Polyends suppliers.

I suggest you stalk the Sweetwater page like I will. Place an order as soon as you can

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#943

Any word yet, if it will even be in a state of shipping immediately after announced. In japan and very interested, would probably buy direct from polyend or maybe american company.
Was wanting another op-1 but since the hardware update prices have skyrocketed. If this is as similar as it seems to me and 599, I’m SO in.

#944

Seeing as you’re the local expert on all things trackers.

What would I gain from using this machine in contrast to using the octatrack. Upon looking on the I/o and UI there seems like the tracker does something’s better and the octa does other things better. But if we step aside from that and focus on workflow. Octa seems to take its legacy from the tracker world. So what can I do in a tracker which I can’t do in octatrack?

As for polyends version, it has some great additions over octa. Mainly wavetable synth and granular synth. Tracker also has 48 tracks, which is huge. So there’s that.

#945

I just tested the 01.04 beta update…

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#946

In the PDF it is mentioned that it supports single grain granular synthesis. That’s not much different than using a short AMP envelope in combination with a LFO on the start point on a single OT track.

The PDF doesn’t even mention if the Polyend Tracker supports stereo samples and none of the screenshots and videos have shown stereo samples in the editor view (mono samples only?).

I don’t think you can compare it to the OT (more likely to the DT). The core strengh of the OT is all about performance: dynamic resampling, scenes and the crossfader, a bunch of encoders, multiple inputs, cue output … there are no clues that the Polyend Tracker does support anything of that.

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#947

Nice, can you tell us if tracking is the only way to sequence?

#948

a ok. Good point. And I guess you can do basic wavetable as well by scrubbing the start position of a looping sample

#949

Did I miss something? 48 tracks? I can’t find any info on that…
48 instruments is something quite different in the ‘tracker’ world.

Anyway, I really hope that the official suppliers already have some in stock…
For €499 this is going to be a no brainer… will be refreshing like a mad man on the 18th haha

#950

To simulate wavetables on the OT you can use slices. This doesn’t support interpolation in between the slices, but with up to 64 slices this should be good enough for the most basic use cases.

It has 8 tracks (as far as any video or screenshot has shown). I guess the mentioned 48 instruments are more like plocked sounds …

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