I don’t do the amen break music on Tracker.
I play sequences and use song mode.
I mix it with AH, DIGITAKT and TIMETOSSER
I really like this machine.
I’ve been there from the start and wanted to see how tracker was playing.
Many creativity here…
Here is my last lead, opinions and suggestions are welcome.
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Needs more Amen.
Jk. That track is great. Good stuff.
I can understand that a lot of people are selling it.
From making Tracker music ‘’ without enjoying it and letting it go.
Tracker Tasks, is to play with the effect board and Mixer window.
It’s great for creating the game, and that’s why it’s perfect for loading and unloading samples. So speedy! This is the alpha dial and I am an AlfDia lover.
It’s my way sorry ho
Was time tosser released ?
Oh yeah!!!
I hesitated for a long time, betweenOTO the blue boxes. Then, when I saw dj with modular, I’am feeling good about it.
Also a French guy had advised me the Zoia unit:The design was not for me!
At first i was very interested when Dave M. introduced it.
So,
It turns with and without, midi, it’s a treat.
** I prefer to play without the midi clock.
** 6 actives scales!
Yeah you can recognize it on my. Last track.
A kind of earthquake before and after the measures in time, or 8, if you know a little music theory.
Timetosser is the Swiss army knife of cutting measures
Very good friend
It’s not wasted money!!!
Hey Trackerfam,
Just came on here to vent. DLed the latest stable firmware and beta, popped the SD card out of the Tracker and put it into a card reader on my pc, dropped them both on the SD card. Ejected the card (properly) put it back into the PT. Booted up. “PLEASE INSERT AN SD CARD”. Uh oh. Powered down, ejected, put SD back in PC. “YOU MUST FORMAT DRIVE D: BEFORE YOU CAN USE IT”. Shiiiiiiiiiii
So, basically all my data is gone. I tried data recovery software but no luck, file structure was borked. Luckily I have a backup, but I haven’t done it since February, so I’ve lost about 2 months of work, some good tunes too. Moral of this story? Make more backups. Anyone know some good windows software for making incremental backups?
Same here. I’ve used SD card adapter, copied some new sample folders, put it back in Tracker and got “Please insert an SD Card” on Tracker and “You must format drive” on computer.
Fortunatly I found TestDisk TestDisk - CGSecurity (open source data recovery tool), a little bit nerdy (text terminal) but it worked. It recovered my SD card (minus one broken sample folder but I’ve got all my projects, other samples and firmware back) it’s all good now.
I guess my problem could have been the way I’ve connected everything:
SD Card > Card Adapter > USB HUB > Computer
Now I’m using SD Card > SD Slot on my computer and so far I didnt notice any problems.
excuse my ignorance, but doesn’t performance mode cover what timetosser can do?
can someone else chime in about the 15-20ms midi out latency the tracker had when sequencing gear? i find this is pretty much gone in 1.4.0b1, which is huge for me ! but admittedly i haven’t used the input of the tracker to monitor my synth, i just connect it to another input in my interface, so i’d like to know how it’s doing on that front.
Interesting to read everyones comments, especially those who have had the PT for a while, or coming back to it. It’s clear the PT is definitely an awesome black box of joy :). I know I would have a ton of fun using it… I just don’t want to start hitting a wall with the limitations, or getting frustrated with the seemingly many bugs.
the upcoming M8 is ticking the synth box, but as much I’ve done a bit of lsdj gameboy tracking in the past, sequencing full tracks and songs on a handheld device may be just that little bit too fiddly.
While waiting for the Polyend to come back in stock I’ve been getting into Renoise. Wondering if there are any Renoise users here and thoughts on the Polyend Tracker? Obviously the PT has the selling point of freeing you from the computer, but Renoise seems to have so much of what a good tracker has.
Just don’t want to be disappointed, if the PT seems like a scaled down version in a box, when 90% of the features exist in Renoise.
As far as I can make out, the granular and wavetable doesn’t exist natively within Renoise, and also it lacks the excellent pattern Fill the PT has. BUT Renoise has unlimited tracks, stereo sampling, and a ton of effects, plugin support, etc. all at a fraction of the cost.
If PT had a synth engine, stereo samples, or more in terms of built in FX (does anyone here feel it’s lacking in effects?), or less buggy. I think I’d be more inclined to push the button. I may still, but the benefits have to stack up now, against both Renoise and the M8.
Any thoughts appreciated.
I was doing the same thing as you, and understood the power of Renoise immediately (I think most people do), but using the QWERTY keyboard was a drag for me. I spend all day typing on a computer, I don’t want to do that during music time.
After trying Renoise I thought to myself, this would be amazing with a hardware interface (sorry, tracker purists, I know how absurd that can sound from some perspectives!). The power to manipulate samples on a per step basis was, of course, more than reminiscent of the Octatrack and Digitakt.
Ultimately, I think it will come down to whether or not I click with how the physical interface has been designed. Won’t know that until I get my grubby hands on it and try it.
tick tock, tick tock.
The pads, maaaan. Nothing beats those 48 lightning-fast pads for creating music. Even if my setup expanded way beyond Tracker, I want those pads controlling my input, regardless of if that’s other hardware or software. They’re the shit!
ha, sounds like you’re in the same boat as me, more or less. I was originally looking at grooveboxes etc to take me away from the screen… now I’m on Renoise all the time 
trust me I’m no keyboard basher, but yea the tracker purists / Renoise geeks are all about the keys and shortcuts, it’s how they can work so fast.
heard it said that PT is pretty much one process at a time and once up to speed on Renoise of other trackers you’re flicking through multiple things) and handy to draw an envelope etc when you need to. Like I say I’ve no doubt I’ll get on with the hardware, just wish it had some more synth oomph, and fx, so I’m not looking at other boxes and even hooking it up to the computer to track stuff - which defeats the point a little.
PT has a nice clean interface while Renoise is complete visual overload, for me anyway.
You’re not alone. You’re describing a dichotomy as old as DAWs.
There’s nothing you can do on an Octatrack, for example, that you can’t do a lot more of for a lot less money and with fewer bugs on a DAW. If you can be creative and happy on a DAW, that’s obviously what you should do! It’s a no-brainer.
Same with renoise. If you can make music with it and be happy, you should do that! It might not have the granular effect, but while I get a kick out of it, it’s not worth getting a Tracker for. And for the US$500 you’ll save, I bet you could buy a whole lot of granular plugins (that support a lot more grains!)
The Tracker (and 
gear and Roland grooveboxes and MPCs and…) are really only worth it if there’s something about the DAW setup that’s getting in the way of your music. Then embracing the limitations feels good and like feature rather than a bug.
But I don’t know. Personally I consider it a flaw that I can’t just get down to business with a laptop. I’m really thankful that people make gear that help me bridge that gap, but if I could choose to be happy with Renoise, man I would in a second. I say ride the software train as far as you can take it!
Okay … this will be a weird story … but short … 
For me tracker was something out of the 80ies and too strange even to try. But after seeing some interesting videos about the PT I had to admit that I had developed some interest. It was about two weeks back, when I decided on a Sunday morning to get Renoise to check, whether a tracker would work for me … ordered PT the same day … delivered on Thursday … love it.
But be warned … Renoise is nearly a DAW with many options the PT doesn’t have and will never get. Get the Demo of Renoise and if the general way of creating music is to your liking, you will be happy with the PT as well. If not … well … trackers may not be for you.
This is true … but Renoise can run all of our plug-ins … that’s quite the contrary to the usual minimalistic way of trackers. It also allows to use and create custom made multi-sample instruments and much more.
Renoise Redux anyone?
