More glitchy fun !
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This one is especially nice! 
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Iâm in.
Delivery tomorrowâŚâŚ
Tried Mpcâs, Octatracks, Digitakts. Nothing stayed.
Wonât ever sell my Op-1s but I wanted something different to accompany them.
Fingers crossed!
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I tried Electribe 2, Circuit v1, Digitakt and Digitone over the years before selling them all and getting the Tracker. I love it for the generative possibilities and the fact that you can constrain to a musical scale. Sadly Iâm parting ways with mine as I think Hapax is going to suit my mostly modular setup better. If money and space were no object, Iâd definitely keep it for standalone jams. Tracker is so much fun!
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Although I mentioned getting the Tracker to accompany the Op-1s, Iâm more likely to use it standalone. Iâll just switch between the 2 when the mood takes me and hopefully come up with different things per the different environments and interfaces.
New feature with classic drum machine sounds today !
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Aaaaand a last one, using the delay on the external in with the Medusa making nice pads 
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I had a weird screen issue happen today. Using the Tracker for 15 minutes and the screen went into a gray line filled mess.
Power cycled with the button. Screen came back on all messed up. Pulled power cable completely and plugged back inâŚback to normal.
This unit is only 2 months old and not used a ton yet. Has me worried. Anyone else see this type of issue?
Iâve had a couple of issueâs. About a week ago the screen froze, but the music kept playing. Power button wouldnât work, had to pull the power cable. It doesnât happen a lot, but it does seem to still have the occasional bug in it.
Absolutely. Itâs one of the very many reasons I no longer have a Tracker. Still my favorite single box ever invented but if shit like that happened at a show people could be injured.
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Iâve been reading elektronauts posts and following along on this polyend tracker thread for the last year or so. I bought my polyend tracker back in Dec 2020 and just made little sequences here and there until I decided I needed to challenge myself to actually try and write something with it. So during last black friday I bought the samples from mars essentials pack, loaded them on to the polyend tracker and started writing some tunes. I ended up with 8 tracks that I thought were ok enough to move into Reason to add some guitar to finish them off. After messing around a bit in Reason I tossed out 4 of them and ended up with these ones. Wanted to share with a group that might be interested to see how other musicians are using the tracker. Hoping itâs cool if I share with you!
https://eagleseeksthedeepestblue.bandcamp.com/album/fast-blue-optical-transient
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Good job !
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Someone on here mentioned changing up the plug part of the adapter that comes with the tracker and thatâs really helped with freezing issues for me.
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I used mine almost exclusively with batteries. Or âpower banksâ as the kids say. Long story short: While I absolutely fell in love with the interface and deeply miss my Tracker, the first one was lousy with buggy, glitchy bullshit. I put up with said bullshit for eight months because of the interface love. Then about a couple weeks after my first show the thing smoked. I mean literally I was just trackin away and it died and smoke came out the back. Made my office smell like three dozen burnt resistors. Polyend and Patchwerks are both wonderfully attentive companies and through their benevolence I had a brand new Tracker in hand the very next day. Twice as buggy. I fiddled with it for a few days and then returned it. I donât tour for a living or anything but I really like playing shows and I need something I can rely on. Iâve moved on to Octatrack for live rig hub and Renoise for tracking the tracks. I absolutely hate to badmouth this box. It is definitely my favorite thing ever in so many ways and Polyend was lightning fast at doing their best to get me squared away when the shit hit the fan. I guess my dream here is that Polyend see enough financial success from this iteration of the product that they bust out a MK2 that does all the same stuff except in a reliable way. Or that Elektron or some other company I like make a solid tracker hardware product.
I donât know why but I canât seem to get interested in the M8. Iâve toyed with getting into euro a bit to see what the Nerdseq is like but that rabbit hole is frighteningly deep and dark. Are there any other hardware trackers right now?
Renoise 3.4 now supports Raspberry Pi. Might be able to cobble together an interface you like with that? Otherwise I think youâve named everything available
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The M8 is the king of hardware trackers probably by a large margin right now. I think the Polyend is great personally, especially that lo fi sound I can get, but your experience makes me nervous AF.
Once I get my M8 I am going to lock in with it for a month and sell one of the 2. I love things that are fast and portable, plus the crazy muscle memory aspect makes the M8 real appealing.
Polyend Tracker is pretty fast to use as well, no real complaints there, but the M8 clearly goes deeper and appears t be even faster once you get dialed in.
Really awesome times for gear. As long as it doesnât catch on fire of courseâŚhaha.
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Nerdseq is really, really cool, but you are right to be frightened by eurorackâs rabbit hole. Iâve been there.
XOR promised a Nerdseq portable, but I donât know if it will see the light of day.
I donât know much about he M8. What do you mean by âclearly goes deeperâ?
Id suggest just watching YT videos about it. There is actually a guy who compared both somewhere out there. I can say off the top of my head that the M8 has en extra FX lane plus has tables which are insanely deep (high level - even more modulation and more) , plus has (imo) better FX And has built in synths that actually sound amazing.
Im not even hating on the Polyend. The Polyend is a great sampler, its fun to use, it sounds rad crunched down to 12 bit. I just think the M8 is much deeper plus it is truly portable which I love.
Ill do a deep comp when I get the M8 in my hands but I have talked to enough guys lucky enough to have both plus seen some nice YT vids and I am really pumped to get this M8 in my hands.
Iâve just watched it (if we are talking about the same beard Scottish dude).
I saw some people playing the M8, and it seems very cool too.
Its worth a look. Not for everyone of course, nothing is. And yeah the Scottish guy does some seriously deep dives.
I love complex pieces of gear that over time become easy and fast to use. This is why I think I was drawn to Elektron. I spent a weekend learning the sequencer that a lot of people told me was âway too complexâ and its like I can hop on any their machines now and never forget the button presses.
I am hoping for that experience with the M8.