5 surprisingly powerful Polyend Tracker Features

[@spvidz]

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[@whatsthatnoisee]

To highlight the entire track faster you can hold shift and press up when you are on step 1. If you are somewhere in the middle of the track and you want to get quickly to the top then hold shift and home/insert.

[@spvidz]

Nice, thanks!

[@rorz999]

Great video, as always! I think the 'fill' function is the best thing about the Tracker, it can be used in so many different ways. Something I just wanted to mention for people reading the comments - if you are used to linear DAWs and you think you'd be put off by the Tracker's vertical scrolling, you can switch it to horizontal in the settings. Also, you can sample from the radio on the Teenage Engineering OP-1, but you're right in that not many samplers have this built in. Even with the OP-1 you need to use a standalone antenna, whereas the Tracker uses whatever you have plugged into the audio-out as the antenna

[@spvidz]

I thought about TE while I was watching this back, but yeah still a rare feature! I have tried the horizontal view but actually find that its a bit too cramped and you can't see much. It doesn't take much to get your head around the vertical view and its much better imo! Thanks for watching!

[@rorz999]

​@@spvidz I totally agree - and I had prior experience of trackers (e.g. Renoise) before buying the Polyend, so I'm comfortable with vertical scrolling. It's good to have the option I guess!

[@spvidz]

Nice 🔥

[@LachieMcg]

Thanks I really need to sus performance mode and resample, have never really got it on the mini

[@spvidz]

Performance mode seems really powerful. I need to spend longer with it too. I’m sure there are some secrets to unlock

[@darealdibiase_]

Wish u could sample the video games like u can sample the radio

[@rorz999]

That would be dope!

[@spvidz]

yessir! well there is always the SP for that 😁

[@LachieMcg]

You can sample over usb and aux cord.. am I missing something on the SP? One day but it’s hard to justify with mpc + tracker.

[@darealdibiase_]

@@LachieMcgI meant internal sampling of the video games like the radio sampling is internal sampling no cords is needed.

[@_c_y_p_3]

@darealdibiase_ Would be interesting to take a contact mic to an arcade , not sure if it would work. I could be wrong but I think an SP404 has enough power for a contact mic.

[@charlyreed7474]

No one ever seems to mention that you can turn the anti-aliasing off and get some crunchy sp1200 vibes from it

[@spvidz]

I've heard about that but not tried it yet. Thanks for letting me know. I'll look into doing a video about it 👍

[@primarqo]

Very fun device! 😇

[@spvidz]

for sure! 🙌

[@riddim7774]

Dope. More tracker vids please boss! Lovin my mini. Pity the mini doesn’t have the radio.

[@spvidz]

Thanks for tuning in man! Definitely want to do some more videos about these features that go more in depth 👊

[@Dork2099]

Man I looooooooooove my Tracker. I’m so into it that I constantly consider splashing down half a mortgage payment on a Dirtywave M8.

[@spvidz]

haha yeah that thing looks crazy!

[@w-h-y-]

I’m sure someone mentioned but op-1 since 2011 samples from radio

[@spvidz]

Nice. Its a very cool feature

[@kerosene4751]

Could this replace the SP-404? I mean... is there anything the SP-404 does much better than this? Or is it just a matter of what you like to use better? Maybe the buttons are better on SP ? Or chopping samples is better?

[@spvidz]

It definitely has a couple of things going for it. I love the performance area, and the song mode is a lot cleaner than the SP but overall, I wouldn't recommend someone to sell the 404 and buy this (I assume you are talking about the SP404-MK2).

[@kerosene4751]

@@spvidz I couldn't remember the SP404 Mk2's killer features, but I just looked it up. The looper recording and skip-back among others. I don't think the Polyend has the equivalent of skip-back but I could be wrong.

[@artisans8521]

Turntable needs line level. And the radio needs FM channels. In my country, FM is killed off. Perf mode is the gravy, and the icing on the cake of the PT. But really cool is the faxt that 1.9 id out for the PT now....adding 4 lanes off MIDI to 8 lanes of samples AFAIK.

[@spvidz]

Performance mode is great! I'll most likely do a full video about that

[@CDeering]

Ah yeah ah I'll neva do it again 😂😂😂!!

[@wiggesobk]

Nice video

[@spvidz]

Thanks bro 🙏