I curse the day I gave away my amiga and music software, sampler hardware and 100s of games
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The specifications of the Polyend Tracker seems pretty much oldschool to me if everything is confirmed. As I understand it is:
- 8 monophonic tracks.
- only mono-sample, so it is not possible to re-sample the stereo out
- mod export, which is a big plus for me.
- No tactile screen and a single big knob to edit synth parameters (!). With my A4, it was already a pain to have the filter enveloppe on different page than the filter parameters ā¦
- only two commands per step, which seem to include velocity and pan according to the pictures.
So it is more a super-octamed in a box than renoise, which may be actually very attracting to me. But for a full-featured groovebox, my little deformer 3 or some elektron box may be more powerful,.
Im really wondering how fast/fun it will be to edit a pattern, and if it will be possible to jam on this on real time, with a quick way to mute/unmute track, transpose some of them, jump between pattern .
Polyend seem to be very good at designing device that a
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I donāt know why people work themselves into expecting miracles with no data. It happens with every product release. This is a tracker in a nice looking box. It does exactly what trackers have done for decades. In a box. Itās cool. If youāre not looking for that, cool. I just donāt know how people can be disappointed in it.
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Iāve been using Renoise for a decade, and it worked with stereo samples for a decade.
It is a nice looking box indeed, thatās where the disappointment lies !
I could understand folks wanting 2020 features in it, especially before the price is known.
But yea, I imagine native .mod file compatibility makes those bigger features less probable due to so much development work.
Still, I think for $599, folks will be likely to give it a shot and likely have a good time making music with it. I think of how popular the mono Digitakt is vs the stereo Octatrack. People are certainly getting by. The initial shock is always tough, though.
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Mono samples sound better thru stereo FX. 
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Right. I think even with the shortcomings of the features, Polyend did a fantastic job to create something as capable as this and to fit it in the price range that itās in.
It looks great, fun and convenient. I just need to see the upcoming Loopop video to determine how convenient the workflow is before Iām completely sold on it.
If the box is successful I donāt see why some of peoples dealbreakers couldnāt be resolved in an update or in a updated model down the line. Price for features- this box seems on point though
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The point of the rant is getting them to update the beast, since we know they read this thread 
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Oh yaā¦I was just wanting to control placements in steps. Itās not really a huge deal honestly was just asking
I suck anyways. Having that feature wonāt make me any better
#metoo
for whatā¦an overhyped Honda Dax ā¦ tjaa teenagersā¦
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I can understand peoples concerns with specs, but I donāt share them. Lots of my favourite instruments have limitations and so long as they arenāt crippling and I can make some music that Iām happy with then specs donāt matter.
Iām the type who is more bothered by devices that try to do too much, having too many options, or bad user interface, for me the time from idea to something happening is quite important.
Track count is a funny one, too many tracks (for me) quickly becomes a hindrance, 4,8 or 16 seems optimal to me for most things, and lower number of more flexible tracks (eg sound per step etc) is more valuable than tons of tracks.
Iām not sure if this one is for me, but Iād not rule it out.
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Specs matter a little bit, but for me itās pretty much give me an instrument that meets some basic level of performance, ability, and fun interface, and Iāll make music with it. I love trackers, am not too picky on mono samples vs. stereo as long as I can do some panning in the track. Everything else about this thing looks tip-top. I will be jumping on this as soon as Iām able. I have no doubts that I can make some good sounding music with it. People worry too much, stress out over spec-lists, and if they just took a deep breath, and gave things a try, they might find they like them. If not, thatās cool too.
So its Granular synthesis is fairly basic (we think). So what. Do we really expect a GR-1 on this device? Itās not a specialist device like that. Itās a tracker that also includes some pretty cool features (for a tracker) all packed nicely into a cool little box with an interesting interface.
Oh well. Iām excited.
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Iām liking everything Iāve heard about it so far but only being able to sequence two parameters just doesnāt make sense to me when thereās so much going on within this thing?
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I want this to blow me away, but I wasnāt too impressed with the Medusa when I briefly had it. This is much different thoughā¦
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I wasnāt super impressed with my Medusa either. There were parts of it that I really liked, paired with parts I didnāt like at all, which combined to be an instrument that I wasnāt really into. The quality level was high though, which I appreciated.
Iām expecting the Tracker to be a high quality device thatās easy to use (if youāre into trackers in the first place) with a decent level of power and sample manipulation, but not over the top with complexity. I get the feeling itās going to be kind of like the Digitakt in that itās easy to get good results with. Maybe this or that feature would be nice to have, but what it does have will be very good.
Of course to fully decide, Iāll need it in my hands, but I have a very optimistic view of this thing, but a realistic one as well. I donāt see how it could disappoint me unless it was absolutely broken.
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Yeah Iām curious if it will have a crossfade on the grain or if it is just the simple you can play a moving grain through a sample and if it will be set up more like digitakts granular or if you will be picking grain size speed and how far it moves forward after each grain is played. Maybe it has itās own unique implementation.
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Interested to see/hear it myself. I think even a simple implementation will be beneficial in the ātypicalā tracker environment. Itās just one more flavor of sample manipulation, which is nice. Sure, more is usually better where features or depth of features are concerned, but I still look at this as an approachable, all-around, fun, sort of device. I think if I wanted more depth, Iād want to get an instrument designed to do the task. (like a GR-1 or something) I donāt get the picture that this was the focus of the Tracker. Which is why I canāt be disappointed if the implementation is much simpler. Iām with you though, curious to see and hear exactly what it can do.
i imagine the white pads to be be some kind of āperformance gridā, like the pads on the rytm can be, where you save different sets of parameter values to different pads and then āplayā (switch between) them by pressing pads.
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pre-orders from 18-3-20 is what I understand it will be.
Keep an open mind on price so you donāt feel disappointed if it is more than what has been posted on here.
got confirmation from a retailer that theyāll be $599
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