Best bit of kit since the Mduw and mono machine.
Love it.
I never would have expected the easy of use.
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I ve question about samples. If i load a sample from my sd Card and want a copy of that sample i search on my sd card. Sometimes sd cards are a Bit unorganizedā¦
I want e.g. Have a sample With 2 Bars different start points. (I know i can do this With the slicer mode, thats Not the point)
How can i dublicate samples in the sample List?
Copy and paste works on the instrument list. You can also import the same sample twice into different slots.
If you want to duplicate the sample file on the SD card, you probably need to use a computer.
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To Name Tracks and pattern is an awesome Feature. Songs will be tidy.
I am just wishing they would steal some page from the Elektron arranger 
(mute track by pattern and not globally, repeat pattern x times, different starting point on the pattern).
It is almost there and could be solved by copy/pasting pattern. I just wish that the perform mode option of switching specific tracks in a pattern would be possible in song mode too.
But honestly, it is so easy to copy/edit variation etc. that it is okay. Just need to be a bit more organized. This is so easy to end up with a 3 minutes rough draft of beat/song/exploration.
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Render Performance mode as sample or as pattern would bring the PT to another Level.
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Yeah that would be pretty remarkable
Ä° would love to see a tool to make themes or a way to have User themes and user fonts.
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1.8 pretty stable so far? Anyone here put it through the ringer yet? Will probably update today and can also report back.
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I havenāt used 1.8 much yet. Encountered a freeze in sample import (selecting a part of the sample, adjusting start/end, keep hitting preview). Managed to reproduce it just now, hope I remember to report it to Polyend. Apart from that, they fixed some issues related to snap to zero I found really annoying.
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Yeah Iāve found it be very stable personally.
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Got my tracker out and was reminded how very good it sounds. I canāt point to why but everything sounds so good on it. However, more notable - I have surrendered and am going to use song mode. Before now I had given up as mutes are not supported. It seemed very ānot funā to have to make slight variations of patterns for what would normally be done with a mute (ie. drop the kick, etc.). This will also stop me from using the Tracker as a big box of patterns that I mess with but never do anything with (finished productions). Iāve decided to use the following workflow:
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1 project per track. I might make a bunch of patterns but once I find an idea I like I save to a new project and erase the rest.
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once I get something I like, copy it to pattern 25 and start building up from there. For pattern variations Iām experimenting with using the patterns āaboveā and ābelowā the source pattern. ie. if I have a pattern in 28, the pad below it (40) or above it (16) for variations. I donāt know how well this will work but Iām giving it a try. I also intend to put the āmainā pattern in the middle of the grid (maybe pattern 30) and then to the left but the build-up patterns and to the right the break-down patterns.
What are you methods for working with song mode?
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I treat each column of pads as a pattern and variations, e.g. pad 1 is a primary pattern and pads 13, 25, and 37 are variations of pattern 1. I typically donāt need 12 primary patterns, so Iāll work backwards from pad 12 (column-wise) for any one-off patterns I may need.
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Iām still quite fresh to Tracker, but what I really like about song mode is copying and pasting entire tracks between patterns. So to emulate a mute, you just insert a blank pattern and copy over the tracks you want to hear without ever leaving song mode. And, of course, since you have created a new pattern, you can introduce some slight variations without messing up the originalā¦
It works, but generally I also find it annoying that minor variations require new patterns. An effect like āplay only after the second passā would help here.
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are you on 1.8? im regassing for one of these guys and i could see myself down to try again if the clicks arent as much of a thing these days
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Hey guys, would you rely on the Tracker as a master midi to change program to other devices such as the Octatrack and Ableton 11?
The PT is so great but It really lacks the external program change option! I thought Polyend could add this on next firmware update
Iām asking for that on the official forum time ago, but nothing. Iām afraid that it will not implementedā¦ but there is a wish for thatā¦ if youāre registered please vote :9š
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Maybe I am not following but Program Change can be sent but not received.
It may not be straight forward how it works but Section 11.8 of the manual covers it.
Configure CC#129 into one of the midi CC slots (A-F) and then use that within the FX of a Midi Step.
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I thought the same. The method you describe is how I send program changes to the Digitone.
Which Portable effect unit can you all recomment?
And btw how do you fix the midi send (cc) issue??
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