I thought it was going live today, according to Polyend, but it's still in the "pre-order, first come first serve" stage. Here's the official word from Polyend: "The preorders have started on the 18th of March. We've started shipping the firstly preordered units to private customers/stores/distributors with the last days of May. This is a constant process. I think we'll be sending them for a long time before the Tracker will be available "in stock". Anyone can order at their retailers or directly at polyend.com but we'll be shipping the preorders on a "first come first serve basis" until September 2020 I think."
@@chiboreache also 'atmospheric dnb' // some classic comps you can find on yt like the one mixed by Aphrodite ru-vid.com?search_query=atmospheric+drum+%26+Bass+vol+2+aphrodite
This gives me flashbacks to when I'd spend hours and hours laying out a drum track in Impulse Tracker or the like. The tracker workflow was always fun to work in but I kind of don't miss it, all the same.
bought one today and I love it already. I've been using Renoise for 10 years and Buzz before that. Of course, you can't expect it to have as much modulation options as in Renoise but still, just the performance FX section is awesome. Instead of using song mode, I switch the patterns in realtime in Performance.. I layered a 7/8 arpeggio on top of a 4/4 and it worked. And what's also cool is that when you select and deselect a track in performance, it retriggers the pattern from the top! It's a bit like ''phrases'' in Renoise!!
It's the sixth time I watch this video since it was published, that DnB and the whole review is so amazing it cheers me up everytime I see this, saving all the money I can to buy one * 0*
Pre-ordered and excited. Can't wait to sample some of my guitar playing with it. Also, love your content - I am new to digital music making, but your stuff is accessible and very enjoyable.
Gear Acquisition Syndrome triggered heavily. The only way I’ve ever been able to create “music” for more than a few seconds was with a tracker, aeons ago. I just can’t get over the font difference between the GUI and the buttons... will have to live with it probably :-(
Someone knows his genre here :) I got weak in the knees when I heard the bass and carrying pads comin' in 1:10 in Jeremy's DnB track - just a "logical progression" I guess, getting weak in the knees, I mean, hihi - it reminded me of my "best" years - I turned 50 last week, hihi! Perfect "demo" track!
Funnily enough, I've just been fiddling around in Renoise - excavating a track I made ages ago in Octamed on the amiga which I managed to convert to .xm, and handily the Akai programs/multis that it was originally triggering are able to be converted easily enough in Kontakt. But it seems so alien now, having to kind of hold the song structure in your mind rather than seeing everything linearly on screen...
I noticed that you haven't posted about the tracker since around the time this video was released. Did you stop using it and move on? I just started getting interested in trackers and crunchy old chip tune stuff (hobby not pro). Your video was very helpful with many excellent tips and tricks for a beginner. Do you have a favorite tracker program? Is there a program that best-matches the relative simplicity of the Polyend tracker? I have been playing with SunVox which is much more complex in terms of its modular instruments (amazing that it is free). Renoise also has much more complexity.
Thank you for that demo! As much as I like glitch and other stuff, most other videos about the tracker were just too experimental, too special and too much for most beginners. A Basic drum and bass / jungle style demo is way better for grasping the basics of a tracker :)
In the trackers I used to use "Cut" would stop the note completely while "Off" would keep playing and move the envelope in to the release stage. Not sure if it is the same in the Polyend - mine won't be here for another few days!
Great demo - and the device looks cool - I’m thinking though with all those prepared wav files would it not be a lot easier building the track in a daw
Was waiting for Conrad to put a few words in at about 3 minutes! Nice oldschool feel. I am a little worried about the 16bit 44k sampling on this thing. How have people found sampling direct into it? Headroom etc is hard to judge on youtube
Hey @Red.. I know this video is pretty old but by any chance do you plan to make a Polyend Tracker Mini video (of course if you got it)? Thanks for the amazing content!
I have no idea on how to use such a cool device but I so urgently want one. My inner kid who used to spend hours playing Music2000 on my PSX is excited.
Hi Jeremy, I like your Polyend Tracker walkthrough. Not got my hands on one of these yet... But I did get the OP-1. You've inspired me to create my own OP-1 Song. Let me know what you think
What a wonderful review! Thanks a lot! I just have one question: what about SQ? is it any good? is it old-fashioned (like the Octatrack)? does it lack of good compression?
"smack my b*tch up" vibes 🙏😂 For the Polyend information being displayed in the video, did you just zoom in on the screen or is there a way to display the info via some sort of VST
How are you getting around the removal of the reverb send? Are you just using delay or is there reverb available when processing samples on project import?
Nice video and great track, I'll be running my breakbeats a bit slower most of the time but I imagine I'll speed up to jungle tempos too! I have a question for you that I've been dying to know if you have the answer, can i record a sample while either running the pattern to sequence external gear, or maybe send midi out to gear with the pads while recording? I am really really hoping to sit this next to my desktop blofeld and use just those two. BTW it's nice to see a video on this from someone who clearly has a lot of tracking experience, I can't say for certain but i don't think I've seen people make much use of the sample start position effect which is one of the best parts of tracking in my opinion.
I hate laptop keyboards. This seems way more ergonomic to me, and i understand the renoise thing but at the same time i don't, if i was going to use renoise then I'd just use bitwig, which i do.. for tracking i like it a bit more limited. I like 8bitbubsy's ft2 clone. If only protrekkr was stable and couldsample. Bam! This is closer to what i just wished for than anything else!
Yep, I thought about getting it but it's essentially a substantially weaker system with severe limitations and the control scheme looks obtuse as hell.
I made a mistake of buying Digitakt after watching your videos... Now I know I just don’t have the talent or patience, so I should not really be buying this one as well :)))
I hope they add DAW/Hardware controller mode in future firmware, with track levels/parameters feedback on its own screen. Would definitely multiply its footprint justification on my desktop, somewhere near the mouse :)
wanted to ask... if you put noteoff event on track, but instrument has long "release" of AMP envelope, and next note on that track comes - does it cut unfinished release of previous note, or release ends correctly even through nee nite is already playing ?
Hey Jeremy ! Great demo and track ! I really like its workflow (I'm used to trackers thanks to Nerdseq), how it is organized and performance capabilities. What do you think about using it in a live performance situation ? Would it be useful to make pre-prepared remixes of tracks for live performance ? Cheers !
hm that chord pad sounds like it is stereo - so it is possible to use stereo samples ??? i think in beta reviews was mentioned it supports only mono samples
I'm properly gutted that they removed the reverb, even if it wasn't a very good one - having one as a placeholder during production is useful. I probably wouldn't have pre-ordered the Tracker knowing this and waited to see whether they implemented a reverb later on. Meh!
WHEN ARE THEY ACTUALLY GOING TO RELEASE THIS DAM THING !? all websites that sell it including polyend all just say “preorder” and we’re nearing Sept . now ! sick of waiting guess ill just get something else at this point.
