nice! 
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More journeys with the PT:
Per usual, nothing fancy. I sampled randomly from the radio and got a slightly morbid snippet of a lady talking about her gran whoās passed away.
Still finding it a little tough to use more than 5 tracks and not have things sound muddled but thatās on me. Fill + Random FX can be a hell of a lot of fun though listening back I can tell I shouldāve dialled back some of that randomness! Using it probably explains some of that muddiness I mention.
Anyway, still finding it a lovely device. I donāt think Iāve had a bit of hardware that has generated so many ideas so quickly. Maybe the OP-Z comes close.
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My V1 Tracker arrives back from Poland soon, kinda missed it! The the jog wheel was knackered and it wouldnāt process external audio in stereo (even the radio) so hopefully those issues will be fixed as it cost a fair bit for shipping. Amazing Polyend repaired it for me at no cost at all, especially considering it was second hand.
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Thatās what this place is for buddy!
I plan on sharing some tracks too eventually.
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After getting more acquainted with Renoise there are actually a few things I miss about Tracker while arranging :
Auto Fill modes: just so helpful and fun.
Fill every: convenient.
Track FX: seem more well implemented although limited to 2 lanes.
Hex: I just donāt like it and Tracker letās me disable it.
Microtone: seems unavailable on Renoise.
And to Elektronās credit: I miss p-locks 
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Yeah man! Sounds great. I saw that hip hop battle, looks interesting. I havenāt participated in an Elektronauts battle yet but have curated two over at op-1 forums. Thereās one going on now that I put together that lasts until the 17th, if anyone uses an op-1.
I had to respond to this. First of all, itās very cool heās talking about the Tracker again and I like the way he uses it. I have to slow his videos down because his button pressing just gets way too fast and it actually causes him to make mistakes sometimes and then you get the whole āoh no, what did I do?ā thing going on. Itās funny because for the first time ever, I know more about a piece of equipment than a YouTuber
Sometimes all the fumbling around is hard to watch but again, really cool heās still using it and he always creates something, which is the point.
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I have this with most octatrack youtube videos 
Very funny sometimes.
But totally understandable considering how complex can be
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He does this all the time. I guess itās charming and more like a first-time user faffing around, but it annoys me that he hasnāt learnt it properly or is giving out false information sometimes. A lot of it can be attributed to all the different gear he has been given by companies and always switching things up just to make more videos. And, I gotta say, having to talk about it while doing it must be quite difficult! I certainly couldnāt do that!
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I donāt think I could do it either without a ton of āuhā and āumā going on. So yeah, props to him for actually doing it.
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Hi, just tried to find my way through the Performance Mode - which is really great. Love the preprogrammed transpostions of selected tracks! And you can choose tracks from different patterns with different lengths to play along! That feature however, sometimes gets a hickup and it is not easy to select that track on spot (dial turning necessary). Sometimes a track does not play - that is resolved by going quickly to pattern edit mode and back. I am a bit disappointed that the parameter list of the Performance Mode does not include delay time or feedback and that all tracks get unselected once you switch to instrument edit in order to change the filter cutoff of an instrument or so. There you go: 
Does anybody know how do increment/decrement paramters by 1 (not 10) like in the delay time menu?
Your songs are motivating, you should definitely continue to post themā¦ they are great!
Just a side note for the users worried about build quality: Iāve had a MKII tracker for almost a year now and Iāve used it so much that the printing on some the keys has completely fadedā¦ and the printing on the other keysā¦ only a matter of weeks before itās gone.
Anyways, Iāve been using it on average 3-6 hours a dayā¦ often more. I donāt have a ton of hardware: just the tracker, sp16, virus, tb03, and a couple 90s rack samplersā¦ so the tracker gets like 80% of the attentionā¦ I also really didnāt have much of a life in 2020ā¦ still donāt lol, so outside of work, spare time isnāt a problem.
With some quick napkin math; I would guess that Iāve put around ~1500 hours into the Tracker and, aside from the keys fading, I havenāt had a single issue with it. I know people have had build quality problems with their trackers, but I certainly do not think itās common enough to worry about it. The Tracker is built extremely well imo.
also, thanks darenager for that mouser encoder linkā¦ Iām gonna buy a few of them so Iāll be ready if mine needs to be replaced.
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I put in a request for more control over delay time (performance and step fx). Hoping this will be an option in the future.
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Hey wondering if anyone has the Pete Canon model? Iām looking for the complete sample pack, it looks so good.
Welcome to the forum! Iām not sure if you can get all the samples but definitely the projects and their associated samples here:
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Thanks! I saw that! Iām really, really hoping polyend releases the full pack for regular tracker havers. Iād pay good money for it, in fact.
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Maybe send them an email to see what they say?
Yeah Ricky is kind of known for his faux pas āwhat the hell?ā moments, but I really enjoy his style, he is so chilled out and easy going.
But yeah watching videos of his with gear I own with often results in me kind of eye rolling at his clumsy fumbles and sometimes the wrong things he says, but TBT Iād rather watch his stuff than most of the others, as he tends to approach his gear reviews from a using it to make a track perspective, rather than a dry rundown of features, a bit like Cuckoo but without the wackiness and a bit more succinct, if not as in depth.
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I guess for me itās like a bedside manner thing with the you tubers, I donāt make the kind of music he makes so what he does is not so much a draw for me from that perspective as him showing the list of features a particular machine has for us to see (still like his music though).
I like that his videos are good quality visually but that he doesnāt go ham with it like his podcasting career is on the line if he doesnāt use every video edit known to mankind, and I like that he doesnāt take himself too seriously but does take himself sincerely, heās not going to say he likes something that he doesnāt like, and heās going to say what he doesnāt like about something, I actually get the feeling he has a hard time letting the stuff he doesnāt like slyā¦ unlike someone whoās name rhymes with can drew sang but shall remain nameless because I wish him no illā¦I do think he makes YouTubing look deceptively easy
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Iāve been really getting into the history of trackers. I find it fascinating. I guess because I was so busy with guitars and bands during the tracker/demo scene heyday. I think itās amazing what some of these people did with such limitations. There are some entertaining, informative videos out thereā¦
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