Received my new Tracker today, after the jog wheel literally fell off the first one and I couldn’t get it back on anymore.
Unfortunately this second device has another problem with the jog wheel. It has a very uneven resistance and seems to hit something inside the machine when changing the direction of scrolling with the jog wheel. Makes a lot of noise when doing that. (you can hear that in the video).
Anyone else familiar with this problem?
Starting to lose confidence in Polyend quality (control) a bit, as this is my first product. Hopefully it is just really bad luck.
Sounds a bit like the encoder isn’t tight and the whole thing is moving. when it does that does the encoder actually move the step selection on the screen?
You really aren’t having much luck here are you.
Nope. And I so desperately want to make some old school jungle!
When I scroll, the step selection works, but I think I noticed some value jumps too (not sure). Put it back in the box and now waiting for Polyend to reply.
I got my tracker around 36 hours ago and it received a very warm welcome in my house.
My 14 year old daughter was immediately drawn to it, so we briefly learnt it together before she took it to her bedroom and shut the door for about 4 hours. I popped up to see how she was doing and found she’d finished this 8-bit track and was now playing Mario on it. I didn’t even know it had games!
After dinner she showed us her song (was good) and then showed her mum it had Tetris, so my wife got addicted and was playing that for an hour.
Finally I got it back and was just gonna try and start a track when my 17 year old daughter asks if she can have a go. She’s still playing with it now. The kids really have picked it up quick and it seems to appeal to them more than my Elektrons (which I’ve tried to teach them but they’ve never been that interested).
I’ve got a feeling I’m not going to get much time with it
This evening at 18:30 I’ll show you a lot of weird way to do parallel processing with out beloved Tracker.
It’s going to be fun, come say hi, have a chat, a beer, a coffee, or whatever and ask your questions during the premiere!
I see there’s a dedicated Polyend Tracker integration on the Polyend Play.
Does anyone know what this does, can I use the Beatfills from the Play on the Tracker or what gives?
I only got the tracker a few days ago, but I can already see that having everything on one grid does lead you to experimenting with stuff that you’d never really think of doing using a regular sequencer.
Anyone see their new “Try at Home for 45 Days” promo? It seemed intriguing, but it’s really not. You buy the product on Polyend and you have 45 days to return it - at a cost of $49.
So basically it’s a 45 day return policy with a $49 restock fee.
I get it. Restocking and dealing with returns must be a pain in the arse and I know there’s a few out there that rip the pish a bit with return periods and effectively using retailers like libraries at times.
This lets Polyend be upfront about things and likely keep a measure of RRP control by not having to pass on the impact of restocking.
On the other hand, how often could someone take advantage of this? I mean, £45/50 or whatever doesn’t seem too bad for a loaner in my books I’ve lost more buying and selling things quickly in the past that’s for sure!
Has anyone done the self install “encoder support kit” yet?
Polyend has offered it as a solution to my jog wheel issue…
Wondering how difficult it is for someone who isn’t great at that stuff.
Thanks.
