oh dear. GAS rising
it looks super thin and tiny
Any speculation on whether this will be purely sample-based or will feature synthesis? The translated blurb would seem to indicate the latter, but Iām not seeing any dedicated buttons for it (unless it all falls under āinstrument parametersā). Perhaps it creates instruments from sampled sounds granularly?
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It looks like the yellow button says āInstrumentā. And then there are 8 square pads under the screen, along with the grid, and the scroll wheel. So, some built in instrumenting could be possible.
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Looks like I picked the wrong year to quit buying equipmentā¦
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2021 is your year for sure!
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My guess is the āinstrumentā button, along with the other three colored buttons, are for entering the per-step parameters, like you would do with the keyboard on a traditional tracker. Something like: navigate to a step with the arrow keys, hold down ānoteā and either turn the knob or press a grid key to enter a note value. Then similarly, you would hold down the āinstrumentā key to choose which instrument you want to play the note. I would expect that the eight track keys are just to quickly select which tracker column youāre on (and then you can quickly scroll through the steps with the knob.)
Iāll actually be very (pleasantly) surprised if thereās internal synthesis that is not just sample based. Polyend is a small company and theyāve never done a synth before, other than Medusa which was a collaboration with Dreadbox.
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It would be lovely if each track had 4-note polyphony and you could use it as a synth with the sample source as your oscillator.
Wow, leak, leakā¦ Thanks LongShoreDrift
Posting this again so we donāt need to scroll up all the way 
I am very curious what this Standalone audio workstation can do. Actually I wanted to get a Organelle M soon, now I have to wait for the details of this thing. What is that pad saying next to āinstrumentā left?
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Cheers mate
After seeing the price I now wish I didnāt know
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Real punks track their tracks on a TI-83!
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I didnāt know what a Tracker was. Just looked it up and it made me wince.
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Final specs will be critical. At first glance, it looks good. The form factor is nice, that big display is nice, and it still has plenty of buttons and that knob. Iām curious. This group definitely comes up with creative gear.
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Price?
I think he was talking about the prophet desktop.
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Covid, interesting typo tho
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Looks really promising! Definitely keen to find out how big/heavy it is if its battery powered.
Either individual outs. Or multiple ins with ability to bounce to a DAW to properly master then itās a buy.
Lacking that. Pass.
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Damn this looks really interesting. Twelve buttons per row. Definitely not xox style here. If it is really tracker/note/event style Iām thinking they lean on the screen more heavily and maybe the buttons are for clip launching/scene selection. Moar specs!
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Lol, is this a mashup of a DT and DN into one slim box?
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