Polyend Tracker

What was all the FM hubub about? No radio or fm synth? I asked loopop as well

The press release says there’s an FM radio for sampling

There’s almost certainly an FM Radio

Wish it had an fm synth like the deflemask tracker. I’m still interested though.

Impressive and beautiful piece of kit, wouldn’t mind getting my hands on this.
Also super curious to see how the workflow feels with that singular knob.

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not so sure about digitakt killer, if anything it’s more like a Blackbox killer imo

Polyend’s Tracker shouldn’t kill anything that you love to make music with, it’s just a take on a classic approach to sequencing…familiar to some, new to others, but definitely unique in the hardware world. Polyend as it appears now have simplified some of the confusing aspects associated with trackers in this release, so that should encourage those unsure of the platform a bit. For me personally I prefer Trackers over any other sequencing platform, they just make sense and enable me to get my ideas up and running faster. if you’re unsure if trackers as a writing tool is right for you, but you’re curious…download a demo of Renoise or protracker (which is free) and try it out. If it’s not your thing, keep rocking what works for you

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Can be powered with an external usb battery. Press release mentions this. Low power draw for external battery powered use.

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Alpha Juno! :wink:

Done right, a single-encoder workflow can be ver fast and intuitive. It’s all about being able to quickly switch to whatever parameter you want to focus at any given point.

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Bummer :confused:

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At least it’s a good excuse to pair this with a pyramid. This will be ace with a drum machine a mono synth and a poly perc

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All tracks are mono, according to loopopmusic answers on IG ! They wasted SUCH a potential… With multiple stereo outputs, polyphony, and stereo tracks, this gear would have been phenomenal !

As a long-time Renoise user I had high hopes with this thing, but now it won’t be better than a Digitakt…

I’m crying, big salty tears

I was planning on pairing it with the Torso T-1 :smirk:

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Wait we know that it’s monophonic in terms of voices, have we confirmed that it only allows mono (i.e. single channel, not stereo) samples as well?

Tasty :yum:

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stereo samples confirmed from the leaked press release I believe

edit: never mind I was mistaken!

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No it is not confirmed, but since it will convert songs to MOD files, and according to loopopmusic answer, it now seems pretty clear to me that it will only allow mono samples

Where ? I didn’t saw anything going toward this direction ? I would love to be wrong

apologies, I remembered it incorrectly