trkr_Trm : Portable Hardware Groovebox Tracker

waldemaR · 2024-02-10T14:33:47.507Z

Hello Elektronauts,

perhaps this has already been mentioned here.
It looks very exciting.

Have a nice weekend

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monsterism · 2024-02-10T14:43:36.863Z

dear god, navigating using touch on a desktop app looks horrendous. I like the idea but implementation seems clunky at worst.

schoolbabyboy · 2024-02-10T15:23:43.693Z

im always hearing how renoise is best navigated using the keyboard alone, can you really get away without any mouse use at all? if so, the touchscreen doesnt seem too bad, kinda forces you to improve your keyboard navigation. i like this idea, interested to see where it goes

monsterism · 2024-02-10T16:09:10.423Z

He was having problems using touch to select item from menu at 59 secs. While I love people trying new ideas, but the UI needs a rehaul before attempting anything like this. Look at how small the text, UI icons, and everything is at the beginning. I can’t see this being cheap, and it be hard to recommend against the m8.

schoolbabyboy · 2024-02-10T16:13:33.559Z

its just running Renoise, i dont know if they can change any of the UI. maybe if the physical controls like the knobs are somehow integrated as mouse control, but i dunno if thats possible

Mumdad · 2024-02-10T16:15:08.034Z

schoolbabyboy:

im always hearing how renoise is best navigated using the keyboard alone, can you really get away without any mouse use at all?

Theoretically possible but I feel like people overstate this quite a lot, at least these days with it pretty much being a full DAW. Within the pattern editor and solely working with samples in quite a limited way it’s just about viable though.

GurtTractor · 2024-02-10T16:26:44.560Z

It looked like there were was another tracker software being run on the device later on in the video btw, not just Renoise unless it was just a simplified UI mode for it.

pidgeo · 2024-02-10T16:28:31.075Z

with these things ui is paramount.

I love the look of the hardware, but yea that touchscreen is not ideal with a regular renoise ui.

mtts · 2024-02-10T16:29:25.642Z

Neat. I think shrinking down a laptop into a Renoise appliance like this is a really good idea. Not sure about the performance of Renoise on a Raspberry Pi, though. Anyone know?

M8 headless is pretty useless, though, as it can’t / won’t record audio in. Also, you’d be throwing away one of the major benefits of running a Pi over a Teensy, which is that there’s enough RAM on board to play samples from memory (while it’s nice that M8 can play samples straight from the SD card it’s not so nice, IMHO, that it has to).

Anyway, like I said, I think it’s really great to see more and more music appliances being developed, especially ones that implement the tracker paradigm, and I’m interested to see where this goes.

monsterism · 2024-02-10T16:43:26.187Z

At that point rather just run it on a laptop

monsterism · 2024-02-10T16:44:12.068Z

mtts:

though, as it can’t / won’t record audio in. Also, you’d be throwing away one of the major benefits of running a Pi over a Teensy, which is that there’s enough RAM on board to play samples from memory (while it’s nice that M8 can play samples straight from the SD card it’s not so nice, IMHO, that

My man gets it

Doesn’t matter how powerful it is if the user experience is painful.