Really the stuff I like about the Polyend is a lot of stuff that shouldn't be exclusive to it its firmware choices the designers made that I think make it stand out over the physical buttons/workflow. You can get a syncopated, groovy bassline in seconds without any thought I love it. I like it for the speed I can lay down an idea, with fill, random note, and scale options. If you have the money and space, and/or see a good deal, go for it. Are the ergonomic/workflow pros enough to outweigh the power/memory/track limitation cons? What do you think it brings to the table, compared to say, Renoise on an OK laptop? (I don't own a laptop at the moment but surely will at some point here). The Polyend keeps tugging at my attention. I wish there was a dedicated controller for it with macros, level sliders, etc, but still.! I've been getting more and more into it, and the overall power of it is just astounding. Question for all you Polyend Tracker users.: I.e suppose I have a sample on step 1 with FX1 being velocity 50, if i put a sample one step 2 will that be velocity 50 even if i don't specify it as such? So if you set e.g velocity/cutoff/resonance it will set that parameter for the track? Situations like this are why I use hardware instead of software the limitations create interesting sounds. Now if I still want to mod the filter, I can put the filter cutoff effect in the slot on the next step, which actually creates some nice dynamic movement that wouldn't have happened if all the FX were dropped in on the same step as the note. So I have to make the decision on what I do need: say it's volume and probability. Like, do I really need to specify this note's loudness, timing, filter cutoff, and probability all on the same step? Not likely. Personally, I like such limitations because it forces me to think more critically about what I actually want to be doing. I see that velocity, pan, slice, microtiming takes an FX slot each, so I feel like you would run out of these (two!) pretty fast.ĭoes this not end up being that limiting in practice? How limiting do people find the max 2 FX per step? I'm interested in one of these as a potential foil to my Digitakt and have been watching a couple of vids and had a question: Octatrack does seem very deep and worthwhile though! But mainly only looking for easy sequencing with extensive generative capabilities. ![]() Yes I agree with you, the Tracker seems like it would be more immediately productive for me as well. Thanks for your input! I really appreciate it. Tracker is very easy to use, and I’m a lot more productive on it. One thing to consider, tracker can’t playback and record audio at the same time- not really important to me since I’m not performing with it. Other than that comparison they are very different. They are definitively different UI, the only reason I made a comparison was because we were talking about the trkr fill vs octa arp. Do you have both of them? Is there one you would rather keep over the other?Ĭurrently have both. Oh that's good to know! Thank you! It isn't cheaper than the Tracker, but I've been very interested in an Octatrack. Slightly different implementation, but can get similar results. The midi arp on the octatrack can pretty much do this. Does anyone know of a cheaper alternative that has these kind of features? Hardware or software. It seems like a truly indispensable way to jumpstart ideas. ![]() ![]() Honestly - I'm very interested in the Polyend Tracker for the random 'Fill' features, especially for notes and rhythm within a scale. ![]() seeing why so many people are bouncing off these!Į: wait, it's saying the MIDI is before the sample, not after? that seems workable, like, 10-20ms of midi delay is not hard to introduce by accident, and I think e.g. Feels backwards but maybe it doesn't wanna be a brain after all. Oooh I *hate* this! I did end up grabbing a Microcomposer this week on fruitsnake's reccomendation so maybe I could just do it all through there w/ the MC as a master or something. Or work either with just samples or with just MIDI. How's this work as a studio brain? Coming from an MPC 8 tracks for samples AND midi feels loThe outgoing MIDI is out of sync with the internal sound engine at the order of 20-30 ms, so you'll need to monitor everything through a DAW and set up delay compensation for all the MIDI tracks to keep your sanity.
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