3 Ways To Use The Polyend Synth

[@danwentz]

Looks, sounds very inviting. Will most likely grab one soon. Thanks for making this video!

[@craigwilliamsmusic]

You’re welcome, thanks for watching.

[@ConductiveIRL]

Great video as always. It’s crazy to be living in this timeline with all the choices and price ranges for synths.

[@MatthewChristianMurray]

And with how accessible it’s become to record your own music.

[@craigwilliamsmusic]

$500 is a great price point for what you get.

[@LoomSync]

Has anyone tried to integrate this into a Maschine MK3? Can't seem to join it up to that device. Any help is appreciated!

[@craigwilliamsmusic]

You should be able to connect the midi out of the mk3 to the midi in on the Polyend and then connect the audio cables.

[@TheLastHalf88]

Can you share individual parts with a DAW somehow? Seems like you can’t but it’d be pretty sweet if you could

[@craigwilliamsmusic]

There is no way to bring the parts in on their own tracks, you would need to record each of the parts individually.

[@MatthewChristianMurray]

If you’re playing with a MIDI controller and have all three sounds set to the same channel, will it just function as a layer?

[@craigwilliamsmusic]

That is 100% correct. You could make a little multi layered instrument doing it that way.

[@MatthewChristianMurray]

@ - sounds like a great idea for bass and lead patches. I’ve already made a bass scene with each engine being duophonic. It would just be a matter of figuring out which tones mix well.

[@craigwilliamsmusic]

I would start with ripping through some of the presets and see what works. It’s always good to try some presets to try and get those happy accidents.

[@MatthewChristianMurray]

@ - thing is, this is SO easy to program. I’ve set up a bass, a lead, and a pad layer already, and I think 8 of the 9 sounds among them were programmed from scratch. (One of the bass sounds is a slightly modified preset.) Last night I made a pad that includes a monophonic FM steelpan (arpeggiated by default but obviously that can be turned off), a 3-voice PD brass sound that can be turned into a metallic noise via aftertouch, and a 4-voice VAP string sound. I’ve played them together manually, but obviously I will need to use a controller to get a better feel for how they work together.

[@TheLastHalf88]

Can you sequence chords? Like have a chord progression and then have the other two synths follow them?

[@AlexFainDj]

There is a lot of white noise in background, is the instrument?

[@zemax0618]

Nope! Sound is pure without any artefacts. Probably coming from the Mixer or audio interface.

[@craigwilliamsmusic]

I can 100% say that there is no noise coming from the Synth.

[@MarcBrugger-k9w]

Can I mix this with my drumbrute impact, model 15, korg monologue and moog dfam? So mix analog and digital?

[@paulmoss6759]

Can you program this with the play I can't find any videos.

[@judddredd8617]

Looks like a ton of menu diving and button clicking. Looks like it needs a touch screen or more knobs per function

[@BrockDavisson]

Nope, not much of a menu diving synth. Some pages but nothing like roland.

[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

The menu diving is pretty light. It’s designed with live performance in mind.

[@craigwilliamsmusic]

Once you get a scene or instrument set up there isn’t much in the way of menu diving. You can also set the Macro’s to control multiple functions. That’s how I have mine set. I can just reach for a macro to open a filter, increase the release for a build in a song.

[@va941]

Looks menudivey

[@craigwilliamsmusic]

To set up a scene there is a little bit to get it going but once it’s sorted it’s pretty hands on.

[@Rondoggy67]

What's with the really loud hissing background noise on this video?

[@craigwilliamsmusic]

I will have to check my connections and see what was causing this. I can 100% say that it wasn’t the synth.