I started making tracks in Impulse Tracker starting back in 96 and stuck with it for a long time but started to drift into modern DAWs by about 2k2… when this thing came out it was like going back to those young days as a kid discovering the fun of making music all over again. I love my Polyend Tracker, my favorite piece in my studio atm.
The short "beat&synth" at 15:30 fragment is insanely good!!! With the voice and other radio sample it is still very good (and the phrase "get connected" fits indeed). Your song creation power on a device you claim not knowing so well show here is inspiring. Respect!
At 7:36 or so, the first column on Fill indicates where the fill is gonna go. So you were trying to tell it to fill wherever there was an FX but there weren't any FX on the track yet. For example, if you picked No Note, it would fill wherever there wasn't a note.
I bought it, sold it, regretted it, and bought it again! It's one of those pieces of kit that causes you to think outside the box and inspires creativity like no other device, this paired with the Roland 707 or Akai MPC is just ridiculously powerful, there's literally nothing else you need for endless creativity with professional sounding end results, I never thought I'd be able to completely eliminate my CPU & DAW, but the past few year's have delivered so many standalone unit's and affordable hardware groove boxes, it's so hard to choose what to keep and what to sell 🤷🏾♂️ but I definitely won't be getting rid of this again, my little studio felt empty without it.
You should totally try the Perform mode. It's the best thing on the tracker. Just create 2 patterns and mix and match them in Perform and add variations to selected tracks.
For me the most important thing with trackers is the semi-realtime note entry, where I can enter the melodies, basslines and rhythms I have in my head at my own pace, alternating between note and empty/silence with arrow down key or delete or whatever. It's like recording, but without actually recording. I control the pace.
Nice way of putting it. I've been using a lot of different trackers through the years, and it's a completely different way of working (and thinking), especially with melodies.
Great video, loved it! Tracker is a gamechanger ❤️ I loved the get connected sample too lol, got some major early 2000s broadband internet advertising vibes
I've totally got a love/hate thing with the Polyend Tracker. It can be so much fun using it, and it can do things no other piece of gear I own does BUT the crappy jog wheel, crappy file management and other quirks can get to me. I sold one, then ended up buying the Pete Cannon version 😂 I've kinda accepted my issues with the Tracker, and try to keep focus on the unique things it can do. Being able to sequence drum lines using the Euclidean fills is immense, still blows my mind sometimes how quickly I can put together dope sounding drum lines. I especially love how it sequences kicks in a way I never would. Got a track from scratch video on my channel which gives you an idea of how I use it. Also I love sampling from the radio, although it's usually the static 😋
@@madguy228 well it's already happened to quite a few people on forums that I've read. Also the manual talks a few times about the jog wheel and how you have to be careful with it, and not apply any downward pressure on the wheel. Akso kinda puts the blame on the user if it breaks which I think is shady. I did see someone on modwiggler talk about repairing theirs with a better quality wheel though, so guess that'll be our lives in the future when our wheels break 😂
when you select "fx" with the fill menu it means it's going to apply the fill to every slot you already have an fx parameter set. If there aren't any fx set on the track it won't fill anything. It's hard to remember but the base fill menu is stating what events to apply the fill to, not what parameters you want to affect. If you select "note" it would only apply the fill to slots that have a note set on it, but the fill can affect fx or instrument or anything else.
Doooooddddddd I just fell in love and bought one. LOVE YOUR VIDEOS! You are such a blessing to the audio community. And shoutout to the Polyend geniuses! 🙏
This video makes me want to consider this over the elektron digitakt based on what you can do with samples. Ricky knows he is cutting masterpieces effortlessly, so Saludos!
Nice. This is the first time I've ever seen anyone actually use one of these things. It actually looks pretty cool. I like the layout of the hardware and the calculator-click buttons look solid. Of course, I wouldn't be sure about the jog wheel unless I actually touch one for myself. However the hardware LOOKS well built like it would last for years.. The workflow does look like it will be a steep learning curve and take some getting use to, coming from an MPC background. However, I'm pretty sure it would be a very fast machine to work with once you've gotten familiar with it. The thing that impresses me the most is how quick and easy it is to sample from the radio. Also, that big screen is lovely. The waveform display in the sample editor is so clear and detailed that it reminds me of Adobe Audition. Overall, it definitely looks like a nice piece of gear that can be a great source of inspiration for new ideas. With that said, if I wanna sample from the radio, then I just need to hook a radio to my MPC One and go to town. Besides that, I don't think there is anything else the Polyend Tracker can do that I can't achieve already with any of the new MPCs I already have. Yeah, I know, trying to curve my GAS for it, Lol. Funny, but true. The spending money part is NOT funny when it's not necessary. Ok, I'm trying HARD to convince myself not to even think about buying one of these BECAUSE I DON'T NEED IT!!!!!! but it sure looks nice! Great video!
That machine is amazing. Hugely expensive for this poor boy but wow that’s fun. This may be my favourite video you’ve done in quite a while. Get connected!
It's so intriguing... a few hours before now I didn't really know trackers even exist and I was looking for a very intuitive groove box like the Circuit Tracks. Now, having seen a few Tracker videos, I think a tracker is the way to go for me... which is really paradoxical because trackers are like the absolute opposite when talking about a smooth intuitive workflow. What I discovered is that that kind of tracker would give me the fine-granularity which I always missed on the MPC for example. I mean, you can do a lot of that stuff in Step Edit mode on the MPC, but the Tracker interface makes it so much easier and then in a way again very intuitive in its own way (combined with all the shortcuts like fill, randomization and so on). And I guess with trackers one might be able to do things which are almost impossible on a 'normal' groovebox, like editing all those parameters of single steps, cutting off notes / samples exactly where I intent etc... By the way: As I understand you can disable to record micro-timing in the record options, so all notes will quantized by default.
I've been watching tons of videos on the Tracker and Tracker+ trying to figure out if I want to choose this over the Digitakt 2 and this video did it for me. I'm buying the Tracker+ tomorrow.
Tip: when you filled the volume and decided you wanted to adjust it down, you already had the column selected. So, you could also have used the jog wheel to adjust everything down while you listened.
Super inspiring! Thank you! You might wanna get the current beta firmware, lots of bugfixes and they added an arp. (: Its love amd frustration with me and this thing, but its deep enough to keep my interest kindled.
I'm gonna go broke watching videos like this. I got a WaveState a few weeks ago, and now I'm looking at old Maschine Studios and now this. Doomed, I am.
Totally feeling the frustration (about the extra tracks being taken)... I like the old-schoolness of the tracker but sometimes... it's a bit too old-school... Great machine tho (I love it and hate it... as anyone should)!
I’d love to see what you could come up with using this in conjunction with your 404. Something about the rigidity of the Polyend and the free form of the 404 seems really interesting, even if you just used the 404 as an FX machine. Good video as always, you tha man!!
I've been having the same thought..cause fx on the tracker are booboo...n sequencing on sp404 is also booboo....the two balance n compliment each other
I love trackers and use them a lot but for a hardware instrument there are just too few outputs on that thing. In the mid 90s when DAWs to become really usable I used export tracks one by one in from the trackers to get stems.
I totally agree, it's one of the things that annoys me about it. Not only too few outputs, but crappy small jack output 😫 but at least they fixed the stem exports
The first video or so I saw of you with this I really thought it would be out of your studio in a week or two. So surprised to see it's still there! You seem like someone who really loves it. You just seem very frustrated by some things with it. I hope polyend makes a tracker 2.0 and consults people like you who have a "love don't use" relationship with it lol.
I bought myself the polyend tracker for Christmas and I love it it's a great modern sampler. I'm still digging into, I also bought the sonicware lofi but sadly I had to sell it. That being said my issue is with it controlling daw. I started making music on trackers like sunvox and renoise (I might have a sesh tonight.) I see that they're releasing the polyend mini, but no news on polyend collabing with any software companies. I would love for polyend to collab with the two. For a nice link/sync of hardware and software. If they do that so many people would tear the door down for this piece of gear. But hey the resale price on reverb has gone down so that's a plus.
This thing is the coolest god damn unit. But damn i hate trackers. But like, the keyboard keys, the radio, the auto naming 😂 so many incredible ideas. I honestly want them to make a different kinda unit, but like the same. Also, when you got that synth sound from the radio, and then shortened it up, we all had the same stank face. Like daaaaamn hahaha
Your most inspiring videos of those I've seen. I recognize the love, don't use relationship with this thing. :) I think what you do here is where the Tracker shines. Sample, mess, jam, repeat. Now, where did I put my charger?
Your videos sold me! Most fun and inspiring lil thang I've ever purchased. I found one on Reverb for $500, it arrived with a ding in the bottom left corner...definitely got dropped...but no worries cause it's built like a damn tank. I'm immediately addicted. Did you see it can load OG Nintendo ROMS?!
I have always had a similar problem as you with all of my MPCs ever. Banging loops, but could never “finish” or create a song directly on it. I’m similar to you with the Tracker, but I tend to create additional couple parts outside of the main loop (hook, bridge, change-up), and then export to Live.
I dunno brah I think his videos and his music would benefit from actually learning to use his gear properly lol. It was kinda painful watching this because he really doesn't know his way around the instrument
So I coulda got a Polyend Tracker... but I decided to grab a DIGITONE instead 😁🥰 and save the tracker for another day... 🤷♀️ But anyways in other news... looking at the pile of synth stuff across my room, I'm pretty sure I died and am commenting from heaven.
Amazing when you feel the vibe of a loop each time, I am laughing so hard. I want to buy one as I am searching for a device that samples radio on the fly since a long time now but didn't know any beside the OP-1 which is too expensive, but I read everywhere that it has so many bugs that it's just impossible to bring it live for example, is that true? Thanks in advance.
The Polyend Tracker is going to become the new hipster instrument. It's an incredible piece of equipment, but I can totally see some turkey buying this, bragging about owning it, and returning it bc they don't like the vertical arrangement or the workflow.
If people have said this already then I apologize but shift + rec lets you arm / disarm tracks for recording. that "pushing the note to the next track" thing bugs the hell out of me too
Sad that they didn't make it a default or a quicker shortcut. I guess you'd have to repeat that each time you wanna record. Which makes like clicking 8 buttons or so to disarm all other tracks, instead of just having a quick shortcut like 'disarm all other tracks'. Good to know though! Thanks!
Hello, I come from the world of Protools and am having a hard time getting used to this format. I bought this Polyend Tracker recently because I’ve become severely disabled and I really wanted to find something like this that doesn’t need a DAW that I could produce music ideas on. My past sampler experience was on the Roland SP-808 where I was easily able to produce a record years ago. Any more intro to tracker production videos that you can make would be fantastic! I can follow you easy which is not the case with many of these tutorials that I find on UA-cam.
I loved that drum beat you came up with. Honestly I think with just a tad bit more familiarity, especially in tracker note spacing and timing, you may end up falling in love with how insanely fast the tracker workflow can be. Once you have the skeleton laid out, the strength of the tracker is in adding variation by changing "instruments" with the notes you already laid down. Think like sample locking in the digitakt, but easier to visualize since you can see where each note is and what each note is on the track without searching too hard. 👍 enjoyed watching
I started making tracks in Impulse Tracker starting back in 96 and stuck with it for a long time but started to drift into modern DAWs by about 2k2… when this thing came out it was like going back to those young days as a kid discovering the fun of making music all over again. I love my Polyend Tracker, my favorite piece in my studio atm.
Protracker was my start. On the Amiga. This device looks amazing. Wish I could afford one.
SAME!!
Loving the ”stank face“ @15:35. That’s a sure fire sign that a track is kicking
I was about to say lol
Dude when you pointed at the camera and said "Yes - Get Connected" I had a good laugh, I was like fkn GOLD. You made me want to get one of these.
Without fail when I watch your videos I always end up being inspired to start working on some music. The genuine enthusiasm is awesome!
This screen and the way it sequence takes me back to Fast Tracker 2 for DOS back in the early 90s. 😊
The short "beat&synth" at 15:30 fragment is insanely good!!!
With the voice and other radio sample it is still very good (and the phrase "get connected" fits indeed).
Your song creation power on a device you claim not knowing so well show here is inspiring. Respect!
Single cycle waveforms on this thing are a blast too. Set playback to forward loop and away you go.
15:40 your face..thats the white eyed love groove. Great vid
I’ve always loved to sample off of the radio with the OP-1, so I can imagine it’s super fun on the PT too
At 7:36 or so, the first column on Fill indicates where the fill is gonna go. So you were trying to tell it to fill wherever there was an FX but there weren't any FX on the track yet. For example, if you picked No Note, it would fill wherever there wasn't a note.
15:22 "and if I go back..." and then it slaps so good!
For all of us that grew up using Fast Tracker 2
I bought it, sold it, regretted it, and bought it again! It's one of those pieces of kit that causes you to think outside the box and inspires creativity like no other device, this paired with the Roland 707 or Akai MPC is just ridiculously powerful, there's literally nothing else you need for endless creativity with professional sounding end results, I never thought I'd be able to completely eliminate my CPU & DAW, but the past few year's have delivered so many standalone unit's and affordable hardware groove boxes, it's so hard to choose what to keep and what to sell 🤷🏾♂️ but I definitely won't be getting rid of this again, my little studio felt empty without it.
You should totally try the Perform mode. It's the best thing on the tracker. Just create 2 patterns and mix and match them in Perform and add variations to selected tracks.
For me the most important thing with trackers is the semi-realtime note entry, where I can enter the melodies, basslines and rhythms I have in my head at my own pace, alternating between note and empty/silence with arrow down key or delete or whatever. It's like recording, but without actually recording. I control the pace.
Nice way of putting it. I've been using a lot of different trackers through the years, and it's a completely different way of working (and thinking), especially with melodies.
Great video, loved it! Tracker is a gamechanger ❤️ I loved the get connected sample too lol, got some major early 2000s broadband internet advertising vibes
15:34 made my day 😂 just amazing again !!!
I've totally got a love/hate thing with the Polyend Tracker. It can be so much fun using it, and it can do things no other piece of gear I own does BUT the crappy jog wheel, crappy file management and other quirks can get to me. I sold one, then ended up buying the Pete Cannon version 😂
I've kinda accepted my issues with the Tracker, and try to keep focus on the unique things it can do. Being able to sequence drum lines using the Euclidean fills is immense, still blows my mind sometimes how quickly I can put together dope sounding drum lines. I especially love how it sequences kicks in a way I never would. Got a track from scratch video on my channel which gives you an idea of how I use it.
Also I love sampling from the radio, although it's usually the static 😋
Did they fixed midi - audio latency? I’ll buy it back next minute if they did.
Does it do AM?
"oh, each....sure" lol that was funny dude. happens to me all the time tracing my steps back to a mistake
bought one of these a couple of weeks ago, incredible piece of gear
just be careful with that jog wheel 😂
@@syedali2943 oh man i read it could fail but i’m assuming it’s likely to fail then?
@@madguy228 well it's already happened to quite a few people on forums that I've read. Also the manual talks a few times about the jog wheel and how you have to be careful with it, and not apply any downward pressure on the wheel. Akso kinda puts the blame on the user if it breaks which I think is shady.
I did see someone on modwiggler talk about repairing theirs with a better quality wheel though, so guess that'll be our lives in the future when our wheels break 😂
@@syedali2943 yeah i saw that i the manual which made me a bit worried
@@madguy228 same, and how fragile it feels sometimes when turning it!
the random name generator is a really nice touch
15:34: best moment on this channel for me, we all agree on this as apparently, Thank You for all the sharing Enrique!
fuckin lo key meme.
It's been a long time since I've laughed so much with a video, I felt the same as Ricky.
AGREED!
You rock Ricky!
I've been sampling from 91.5 fm in LA. Nice classical music to sample from .
when you select "fx" with the fill menu it means it's going to apply the fill to every slot you already have an fx parameter set. If there aren't any fx set on the track it won't fill anything. It's hard to remember but the base fill menu is stating what events to apply the fill to, not what parameters you want to affect. If you select "note" it would only apply the fill to slots that have a note set on it, but the fill can affect fx or instrument or anything else.
Thanks for the explanation 💯
Probably the best showcase of Tracker in whole life of this instrument.
I'd like to see an opinion of Dr Mix about it.
Doooooddddddd I just fell in love and bought one. LOVE YOUR VIDEOS! You are such a blessing to the audio community. And shoutout to the Polyend geniuses! 🙏
I love my Tracker so much, it's such a cool bit of kit
Hardest wub since Azido Da Bass 😤
I enjoy my Polyend Tracker. Have you had a chance to check out the Dirtywave M8? I’m liken what I’ve seen so far,
This video makes me want to consider this over the elektron digitakt based on what you can do with samples. Ricky knows he is cutting masterpieces effortlessly, so Saludos!
Well, you can just mangle samples on the DT, that it its specialty.
Always one of the best parts of a Saturday. Thanks for the video :)
Thanks for rolling through :)
Nice. This is the first time I've ever seen anyone actually use one of these things. It actually looks pretty cool. I like the layout of the hardware and the calculator-click buttons look solid. Of course, I wouldn't be sure about the jog wheel unless I actually touch one for myself. However the hardware LOOKS well built like it would last for years..
The workflow does look like it will be a steep learning curve and take some getting use to, coming from an MPC background. However, I'm pretty sure it would be a very fast machine to work with once you've gotten familiar with it. The thing that impresses me the most is how quick and easy it is to sample from the radio. Also, that big screen is lovely. The waveform display in the sample editor is so clear and detailed that it reminds me of Adobe Audition.
Overall, it definitely looks like a nice piece of gear that can be a great source of inspiration for new ideas.
With that said, if I wanna sample from the radio, then I just need to hook a radio to my MPC One and go to town. Besides that, I don't think there is anything else the Polyend Tracker can do that I can't achieve already with any of the new MPCs I already have.
Yeah, I know, trying to curve my GAS for it, Lol. Funny, but true. The spending money part is NOT funny when it's not necessary. Ok, I'm trying HARD to convince myself not to even think about buying one of these BECAUSE I DON'T NEED IT!!!!!! but it sure looks nice!
Great video!
That pitching of the hihat sample at 4min sounds awesome. Cool man
Around 15:35 Ricky is almost as excited as if he was using PRO LEVEL CHORDS 😄
Wow, this really reminds me of Fast Tracker and Buzz.... takes me back.
man! when that low pass kicked in on 15:34 I did the same face you did!
oh yeah! 17:27 sounds so much like AKUFEN! I love your channel, sir!
I've had so much fun working with the tracker, it's such a deep instrument
The final part in the end of the video 🤘🏻😾
That machine is amazing. Hugely expensive for this poor boy but wow that’s fun. This may be my favourite video you’ve done in quite a while.
Get connected!
The tracker is such a winner, I love it!
Too soon, too far... you're in deep! hahaha
That "Get Connected" sample straight up sounds like a Mr. Oizo sample
It's so intriguing... a few hours before now I didn't really know trackers even exist and I was looking for a very intuitive groove box like the Circuit Tracks. Now, having seen a few Tracker videos, I think a tracker is the way to go for me... which is really paradoxical because trackers are like the absolute opposite when talking about a smooth intuitive workflow. What I discovered is that that kind of tracker would give me the fine-granularity which I always missed on the MPC for example. I mean, you can do a lot of that stuff in Step Edit mode on the MPC, but the Tracker interface makes it so much easier and then in a way again very intuitive in its own way (combined with all the shortcuts like fill, randomization and so on).
And I guess with trackers one might be able to do things which are almost impossible on a 'normal' groovebox, like editing all those parameters of single steps, cutting off notes / samples exactly where I intent etc...
By the way: As I understand you can disable to record micro-timing in the record options, so all notes will quantized by default.
It is like the Impulse tracker in the 90s
I've been watching tons of videos on the Tracker and Tracker+ trying to figure out if I want to choose this over the Digitakt 2 and this video did it for me. I'm buying the Tracker+ tomorrow.
15:34 THAT'S what I was waiting for XD
Yo! Loved this! Now I want a tracker again. That radio sampling is just too cool.
Tip: when you filled the volume and decided you wanted to adjust it down, you already had the column selected. So, you could also have used the jog wheel to adjust everything down while you listened.
I had a feeling it has to be easier
whaaaaaat!! that's insanity
"I have yet to make a full song on this thing"
I finally feel like I'm not alone. Unfinished jams rejoice!
Like 95% of the users on youtube havent made a complete song
@@prototype9000 that phenomenon isn't unique to the tracker. It has everything to do with the self-discipline.of the person using it
You should get Skillshare to allow you to sample lessons from there so you don't have to worry about copyright strikes.
I've been craving one of these since before they were released.. Just so much other stuff I needed to buy.. Some day... Some day it will be mine.
Super inspiring! Thank you!
You might wanna get the current beta firmware, lots of bugfixes and they added an arp. (:
Its love amd frustration with me and this thing, but its deep enough to keep my interest kindled.
This video makes me consider getting a polyend. Thank you.
man... those thumbnails are amazing!!!
These sponsor cutaways are awesome
I'm gonna go broke watching videos like this. I got a WaveState a few weeks ago, and now I'm looking at old Maschine Studios and now this. Doomed, I am.
Totally feeling the frustration (about the extra tracks being taken)... I like the old-schoolness of the tracker but sometimes... it's a bit too old-school... Great machine tho (I love it and hate it... as anyone should)!
time to pick the tracker back up.... THANK YOU RICKY!
Synth sample at the start sounded like Justice. Good stuff dude.
I’d love to see what you could come up with using this in conjunction with your 404. Something about the rigidity of the Polyend and the free form of the 404 seems really interesting, even if you just used the 404 as an FX machine. Good video as always, you tha man!!
I've been having the same thought..cause fx on the tracker are booboo...n sequencing on sp404 is also booboo....the two balance n compliment each other
@@M27UNDERGROUND yeah, the effects on SP's are great!
I love trackers and use them a lot but for a hardware instrument there are just too few outputs on that thing. In the mid 90s when DAWs to become really usable I used export tracks one by one in from the trackers to get stems.
i always think this! imagine if the tracker had 8 outputs... maybe in a MK2
I totally agree, it's one of the things that annoys me about it. Not only too few outputs, but crappy small jack output 😫 but at least they fixed the stem exports
The first video or so I saw of you with this I really thought it would be out of your studio in a week or two. So surprised to see it's still there! You seem like someone who really loves it. You just seem very frustrated by some things with it. I hope polyend makes a tracker 2.0 and consults people like you who have a "love don't use" relationship with it lol.
Ricky Tinez is a legend and we love him.
I bought myself the polyend tracker for Christmas and I love it it's a great modern sampler. I'm still digging into, I also bought the sonicware lofi but sadly I had to sell it. That being said my issue is with it controlling daw. I started making music on trackers like sunvox and renoise (I might have a sesh tonight.) I see that they're releasing the polyend mini, but no news on polyend collabing with any software companies. I would love for polyend to collab with the two. For a nice link/sync of hardware and software. If they do that so many people would tear the door down for this piece of gear. But hey the resale price on reverb has gone down so that's a plus.
Upvote for him to do a Digitakt 1.30 Review !
This thing is the coolest god damn unit. But damn i hate trackers. But like, the keyboard keys, the radio, the auto naming 😂 so many incredible ideas. I honestly want them to make a different kinda unit, but like the same. Also, when you got that synth sound from the radio, and then shortened it up, we all had the same stank face. Like daaaaamn hahaha
"I honestly want them to make a different kinda unit, but like the same"
U wot m8?
@@rorz999 yea it doesn't make sense
Your most inspiring videos of those I've seen. I recognize the love, don't use relationship with this thing. :) I think what you do here is where the Tracker shines. Sample, mess, jam, repeat. Now, where did I put my charger?
This looks like so much fun.
There's something satisfying about pressing buttons rather than a touchscreen. Might pick one of these up on payday
Anything I own with a touchscreen can also be controlled by buttons and encoders.
just ordered mine..cannot wait..
that synth/bassline you made is too fire
Your videos sold me! Most fun and inspiring lil thang I've ever purchased. I found one on Reverb for $500, it arrived with a ding in the bottom left corner...definitely got dropped...but no worries cause it's built like a damn tank. I'm immediately addicted. Did you see it can load OG Nintendo ROMS?!
I have always had a similar problem as you with all of my MPCs ever. Banging loops, but could never “finish” or create a song directly on it. I’m similar to you with the Tracker, but I tend to create additional couple parts outside of the main loop (hook, bridge, change-up), and then export to Live.
Nice groove there! :)
You were literally riding on the Metro. I gotta take some time to play with my tracker too.
It dawned on me the biggest thing I learn from you isn't how to use hardware but how to move past the 'eh' and follow the groove
I dunno brah I think his videos and his music would benefit from actually learning to use his gear properly lol. It was kinda painful watching this because he really doesn't know his way around the instrument
@@rorz999 I hope dragging the legendary Ricky Tinez helps ease your buyer's remorse.
The op1 should have this screen and design
So I coulda got a Polyend Tracker... but I decided to grab a DIGITONE instead 😁🥰
and save the tracker for another day... 🤷♀️
But anyways in other news... looking at the pile of synth stuff across my room, I'm pretty sure I died and am commenting from heaven.
Amazing when you feel the vibe of a loop each time, I am laughing so hard.
I want to buy one as I am searching for a device that samples radio on the fly since a long time now but didn't know any beside the OP-1 which is too expensive, but I read everywhere that it has so many bugs that it's just impossible to bring it live for example, is that true? Thanks in advance.
The Polyend Tracker is going to become the new hipster instrument. It's an incredible piece of equipment, but I can totally see some turkey buying this, bragging about owning it, and returning it bc they don't like the vertical arrangement or the workflow.
So what. It’s a tool. Use it.
I doubt there's gonna be many returns on this
nice work, looks like fun
damn you for creating GAS for yet another device :-)
This looks awesome Ricky. ♥️🤘🎹
Man this is fucking amazing
Alternatively: This man is fucking amazing
I got the sp404 recently and this makes me want to take it back.
I love this! I love your content and your channel. You are amazing and very talented. 😊
If people have said this already then I apologize but shift + rec lets you arm / disarm tracks for recording. that "pushing the note to the next track" thing bugs the hell out of me too
Sad that they didn't make it a default or a quicker shortcut. I guess you'd have to repeat that each time you wanna record. Which makes like clicking 8 buttons or so to disarm all other tracks, instead of just having a quick shortcut like 'disarm all other tracks'. Good to know though! Thanks!
Watching this and now I need a Polyend Tracker. No way I can afford one - dreams.
Looks like lots of fun
Youre so CRAZY fast - "Tricky Ricky". Insane ! ;-)
Hello, I come from the world of Protools and am having a hard time getting used to this format. I bought this Polyend Tracker recently because I’ve become severely disabled and I really wanted to find something like this that doesn’t need a DAW that I could produce music ideas on. My past sampler experience was on the Roland SP-808 where I was easily able to produce a record years ago. Any more intro to tracker production videos that you can make would be fantastic! I can follow you easy which is not the case with many of these tutorials that I find on UA-cam.
Anyone know the song for the second sample at 13:40? I cannot remember the name. EDIT: got it, it's Berlin - The Metro
Hahaha the "face of filth". You know shits good when it's got you pulling that face...
this is awesome, I thought I hated those pads but it’s just a fretboard? I don’t know why I didn’t put that together before
Awesome stuff, homie
Did you get another one? The buttons look like the newer ones. I love this thing!
One of my favorite groove boxout there but sold it because of MIDI-Audio latency…
I loved that drum beat you came up with. Honestly I think with just a tad bit more familiarity, especially in tracker note spacing and timing, you may end up falling in love with how insanely fast the tracker workflow can be. Once you have the skeleton laid out, the strength of the tracker is in adding variation by changing "instruments" with the notes you already laid down. Think like sample locking in the digitakt, but easier to visualize since you can see where each note is and what each note is on the track without searching too hard. 👍 enjoyed watching
Nice video as always, Ricky. What's your take on this vs. the Digitakt? I know you love your 'takt... Or how about throwing the M8 into the mix, too?
Did you create those MPC60 hits or grab them from somewhere?