What are MOD Files?
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Why canāt anybody make a hardware with proper treatment of multiple, long stereo stems for live purpose ? Octatrack has only one stereo output, MPC liveās song mode seems pretty awfulā¦
The trackerās way would suit perfectly for this application, Polyend wasted a major opportunity here according to me
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I love this. But now, Iām totally out. But I love it all the same.
MOD is a format consisting of four mono tracks, created in 1987 for Amigaās tracker. It must have been revolutionnary back in the days, but nowā¦ You can convert them easily in Renoiseās file format ( xrns ) which allows stereo samples, polyphony per track. They just needed to make Renoise in a box, with live mangling possibilities according to me. And for the moment, they seem to have failedā¦
Making such a product is a pretty ballsy move from Polyend, and Iām glad they did, but it makes me crazy that they curbed it that way.
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Blackbox might be what you need!
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I have it indeed, but the handling and workflow of long samples is pretty dull for the moment ( you canāt have more than 16 samples loaded at once, and when you change them it interrupts the sound ! ).
They are the better contender for now according to me, if they fix these points in further updates.
However I donāt have an Octatrack, becausethe lack of multiple outputs annoys meā¦ However I have an AR and LOVE it, so I may try to couple these two bad boys someday. I was waiting to see what Polyendās tracker had in its stomach.
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I asked about price on loopops post but no answer. Fingers crossed for the lower one
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two.
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Iām down with the mono samples personally, I prefer it. I do a lot of sound design with reason/Reaktor and breaks, and I bounce everything to mono, throw it all into my hardware and then mix it to stereo. I personally always loved how the Amiga handled mono samples, the digitakt only handles mono aswell, for percussion based music this is a plus, but everyone has their thing. I guess Iām so old school lol!! That everything Iāve seen so far from this release is properā¦itās an Amiga running Protracker/OctaMed with a dash of Renoise in a portable and streamlined format. Thatās a win for me at least lol!!
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Great ! I didnāt know, thanks 
Do you feel using it with long stems for a 1h30 show, along with the AR, is a good idea ?
I would say āyesā. Many use it this way, but of course it depends completely on what you want to do exactly.
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Yes I totally understand, lofing mono samples with something like the eSPI and reworking them in Polyendās tracker should be loads of fun ! I was just hoping that this release would fulfill my own and selfish needs better. And if it can attracts more people into tracking, Iāll be very happy !
Another downside I saw on Loopopmusic is no timestretch unfortunately. Maybe they will fix all these things in further updates ?
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But can you jam on a tracker?
The happy accidents or improvised bits can be the most interesting or take an idea in a diff direction.
(I know nothing of trackers)
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It depends on the hardware being powerful enough for such features (especially timestretch). I wouldnāt count on it.
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iām not entirey sure why the lack of timestretching makes me happy, but i love old school sample/tape behaviour so much more, always come up with better music that way
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Something like old school AKAI S900 timestretch would have been great I think, and maybe pretty light on the computer
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may be possible scanning through a sample with the one grain granular engine on the polyend?
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traditional trackers, noā¦but with Renoise, yes. Renoise is the most advanced modern tracker available (there is Radium aswell, which was designed by the kat that created OctaMed/Med studio, I havenāt messed with Radium, mainly because Renoise is simply brilliant and you donāt want for anything once you learn it a bit) I highly recommend Renoise (itās the best sequencer available in my opinion. Hands down) it also pairs well with the Elektron boxes without a proper arranger mode.
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trackers arenāt hard to learn, step sequencers and piano roll arenāt either, theyāre just more prominent due to the fact that their easy to use and conceptual their what most people find comfortable to write with. My suggestion is donāt let the aesthetics of a tracker discourage you, the hardest part is conceptually applying the vertical sequencing format to writing (which for me makes way more sense than piano roll or step sequencing). for me trackers helped train my ears, I wasnāt looking at waveforms, eq curves and the multitude of visual GUI processesā¦I just focused on writing, arranging, and actually hearing the result and getting better feedback in the process to help develop my sound etc. you donāt have to be an old tech nerd, like some of us to get used to a tracker environment, believe me their far simpler than they may appear.
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Iāll bet this thing would be great paired with Renoise, actually.
Bouncing audio and fumblings between the two back and forth.
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