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Polyend Tracker Standalone Audio Workstation Wavetable Synthesizer & Sequencer
$359
$550.00
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Sweetwater Audio has Polyend Tracker Standalone Audio Workstation Wavetable Synthesizer & Sequencer for $359. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member Selman for finding this deal.
Features:
- Note: Includes Sweetwater's Free 2-Year Total Confidence Coverage Warranty
Thanks to community member Selman for finding this deal.
Features:
- All the essential software tracker elements plus more in a sleek, portable hardware device
- Large display screen, mechanical buttons, and an intuitive interface
- Vertical column configuration is an efficient and fun way to compose and arrange
- Each project allows 48 instruments and 256 patterns with 128 steps per pattern for building massive tracks
- Upload samples via microSD card or capture them on the unit through its mic and line inputs
- Includes a radio receiver for grabbing samples off the airwaves
- Manipulate samples in limitless ways with pitch-shifting, envelope generators, filters, one-shot, reverse, and ping-pong modes, and reverb
- Wavetable and granular synthesis offer deep sound design capabilities
- Performance features let you take the Polyend Tracker live
- MIDI-equipped to sequence hardware devices or to receive MIDI commands from your DAW or an external MIDI controller
- Export projects to a microSD card as master stereo tracks or stems
- USB bus-powered
- Polyend Tracker
- USB‑A power adapter
- USB-C cable (2 m)
- 3.5 mm to 2x 6.3 mm adapter
- Minijack to MIDI DIN adapter
- 16GB MicroSD Card
- MicroSD to USB-A Adapter
- Manual
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Edited April 24, 2024
at 07:21 PM
The Polyend Tracker is back at $359. You can get it for this price at Amazon too, but you get a little bag of candy from Sweetwater which sweetens the deal. Sorry.
https://www.sweetwater.
- Type:Sampler with Sequencer and Wavetable Synthesizer
- Internal Sound Engine:Wavetable Synthesis, Granular Synthesis
- Screen:7" LCD Screen
- Pads:48 x Backlit Silicone Pads
- Sounds:4,000 Preloaded Samples
- Polyphony:8-voice recording
- Sequencer:8-track, 256 Patterns, 128 Steps per Pattern
- Sampling:2 minute Sampling, 1-shot, Forward, Backward, Ping-pong, Automatic Slicing
- Effects:Normalizer, Reverse, Overdrive, Delay, Bitcrusher, Chorus, Flanger, 3-band EQ, Compressor, WT Smoother, Timestretch and more
https://www.sweetwater.
Created 04-24-2024
at 07:03 PM
by Selman
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I've been a Sweetwater customer for years. I've got a single phone call, not directly related to an order, from my sales rep in this time. He knows I don't engage, so he leaves me alone. I'm very happy with everything, every time. If you can buy from a smaller music shop, do it, but saying Sweetwater is the same as Amazon isn't true.
This is a fun device but I haven't put enough time in yet to really be productive with it. I've also seen people selling these locally for less recently, and the Tracker Mini for a similar price. The Dirtywave M8 is under $500 used these days, and is preferred by many people (check out Red Means Recording on YouTube).
My comment from the last post:
A tracker is like making music in a spreadsheet filled with hexadecimal codes, which is pretty obscure at first glance.
However, plenty of kids started making music on tracker programs in the 90s, so there have been beginners who found success with a similar interface. It probably depends on how your brain works. One advantage of the interface is that a lot of information is visible on the main page, once you understand what you're looking at.
I'd recommend watching this video to get a sense of how it works but remember that Loopop has years of music production experience, and you won't be able to make stuff that sounds nearly as good without lots of practice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQufJBV
(Watch up to 5:04, then skip to watch 42:50 until the end, then watch the middle if you're still interested)
Another good tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXu5254
You can also download a demo for Renoise, which has a similar interface although it's more powerful and probably a bit harder to learn. https://www.renoise.com/
If you're interested in a groovebox (an all-in-one hardware device that can make beats and melodies, i.e. a full track) like this, I'd consider the Novation Circuit Tracks for a similar price. The Roland MC-101 might also be good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq3yveN
It's really cool to create a piece of music, and then throw it in perform mode where you can trigger reverb, delay, bitcrush, and a bunch of other effects on a per track basis and just chill. I've got tons of instruments to mess with when I want to play, but the more passive style of this is really chill to use in bed getting ready to sleep.
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You don't really need the number pad, but I bought a cheapo one on Amazon and popped the keys to mimic the M8's layout. At the time, I really wanted to mimic the M8 as close as possible (in case I bought one).
Official github has a decent set-up/how to guide linked here: https://github.com/DirtyWave/M8Do...ssSetup.
If you run into any trouble, between the M8Tracker subreddit and official Discord you're in really good hands. Fair warning: the Discord gives me major GAS (gear acquisition syndrome).
You don't really need the number pad, but I bought a cheapo one on Amazon and popped the keys to mimic the M8's layout. At the time, I really wanted to mimic the M8 as close as possible (in case I bought one).
Official github has a decent set-up/how to guide linked here: https://github.com/DirtyWave/M8Do...ssSetup.md [github.com]
If you run into any trouble, between the M8Tracker subreddit and official Discord you're in really good hands. Fair warning: the Discord gives me major GAS (gear acquisition syndrome).
This is a fun device but I haven't put enough time in yet to really be productive with it. I've also seen people selling these locally for less recently, and the Tracker Mini for a similar price. The Dirtywave M8 is under $500 used these days, and is preferred by many people (check out Red Means Recording on YouTube).
My comment from the last post:
A tracker is like making music in a spreadsheet filled with hexadecimal codes, which is pretty obscure at first glance.
However, plenty of kids started making music on tracker programs in the 90s, so there have been beginners who found success with a similar interface. It probably depends on how your brain works. One advantage of the interface is that a lot of information is visible on the main page, once you understand what you're looking at.
I'd recommend watching this video to get a sense of how it works but remember that Loopop has years of music production experience, and you won't be able to make stuff that sounds nearly as good without lots of practice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQufJBV
(Watch up to 5:04, then skip to watch 42:50 until the end, then watch the middle if you're still interested)
Another good tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXu5254
You can also download a demo for Renoise, which has a similar interface although it's more powerful and probably a bit harder to learn. https://www.renoise.com/
If you're interested in a groovebox (an all-in-one hardware device that can make beats and melodies, i.e. a full track) like this, I'd consider the Novation Circuit Tracks for a similar price. The Roland MC-101 might also be good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq3yveN
Thanks for the M8 tip. Got one via OfferUp for $500.