Granular Textures on Polyend Tracker

8 voice granular and resonant filter bank... and a lot of reverb

[@nicjab]

This is excellent, by far the most convincing take on granular I've seen on Tracker.

[@alitna]

This makes the Polyend Tracker like a whole new instrument! Really impressive!

[@semyonboyk0]

That is something I would have never come up with myself. Thanks for sharing!

[@jimmac]

Lush sounds out of the fm radio. Ridiculously awesome.

[@shawnfroos]

The latest beta introduces the ability to save and load instruments (not just sounds) which will make this so much easier to achieve. Thanks for sharing!

[@lolf3782]

this is true. one of the things I do already which isn't shown in this video is just keep a template project with 8 instruments already setup. then you can just load a new sample into that instrument and it leaves all the instrument settings unchanged. very fast way to swap out the underlying sample.

[@RayRischpater]

Wow, this is a game-changer for me! Thanks for putting this together.

[@jramosmusic]

Beautifull music and sound design really powerful device

[@lolf3782]

Thank you, yes, with the right mindset the tracker is super inspiring!

[@andyisacsson7503]

Excellent idea...many thanks

[@Plome5000]

What an inventive way to use the tracker! I used it for a sample of my Tibetan Singing Bowl and it sounds amazing. My spouse was entranced! Thank you for sharing!

[@virus2003]

The sound is divine. Thanks for sharing! I love the "free love" feel of the Tracker community.

[@RneubauerBmore]

Super creative way to use the Tracker, great vid

[@DBPawlan]

Really great walk-thru of some cool features and ideas. Thanks..

[@mindf1lter]

amazing tutorial, thank you!

[@elvisminerva]

Very cool, thanks for the sharing of technique

[@KA0T]

Nice technique

[@HieronymusLudo]

Okay this cinched the deal for me, I'm getting this.

[@theelectronicrat]

I love this. Thank you, sir. I'll apply some of what you have taught in an upcoming project.

[@dubbynelson]

Those mechanical buttons sound fuckin' blessed.

[@lowflyingdonut]

this is stellar thanks

[@marcthomas8192]

Excellent!! I'll do this tomorrow and make it a tonal sequence with longer glides on all notes.

[@lolf3782]

cool idea, yes there are a lot of possibilities here. by using less reverb you can also let more of the unique textures come through

[@cosmonaut5292]

Great Video! Thanks🖤🖤🖤

[@michaels5166]

amazing..glad i have a Tracker

[@staalklang]

Really appreaciate the video. Thank you for sharing it.

[@davidrothschild8913]

Beautiful work. I’m considering buying this and mangling acoustic guitar and distortion

[@JohnAlchemy]

Nice trick, thanks for sharing👊

[@TURBONERD]

If only we had another 8 channels for the rest of the song! This would be great for generating pad samples. thanks for the great video :)

[@Polyend]

Second Tracker unit maybe? :D

[@CapriciousBlackBox]

@@Polyend You took the words right out of my......oh wait.....you're @Polyend XD Cheers....I just took delivery of my 2nd Medusa ;)

[@YusakuGod]

I believe you can resample on the tracker so get all this ambient the way you want then resample down to one track?

[@StefanvanderKlooster]

It also works with less tracks, kinda

[@StefanvanderKlooster]

Awesome tutorial. I just got the Tracker a week ago and was looking for ways to do this for an ambient track I'll be working on.

[@njm8443]

Very cool! thanks for sharing

[@100ThingsIDo]

Really great idea :D

[@bjamminsincebirth3494]

Wowwwwww 🔥

[@ModLifeCrisis]

That’s a nice idea. I’m going to try it. Thanks 🙏

[@Dolores5000]

So fantastic

[@ConsoleGlow]

Great!

[@TommyZee]

Useful and delightful!

[@lampsonica7055]

Brutal!!!🖤

[@TerekkiTerekki]

Great idea

[@RitonMachelard]

Awesome! Will try tomorrow!

[@DavidRodriguezb3d]

Genio

[@alejandrogomezvillanueva7327]

Great ❤️ Thanks for sharing 🪴

[@bahutu802]

That's amazing! It never came to my mind to create custom 'chords' using the pattern swap feature on the Perform screen. Just that idea alone would have made this a video worth watching. Combined with everything else covered here, it's pure bliss

[@lolf3782]

Thank you! So... you are right on your guess about the normalizing. I don't know for sure, I haven't measured the levels through every part of the signal path, but my theory is that it is best to keep some headroom at every part of the path. Example: sometimes if you set the resonance high on the instrument filter, you will hear clipping. so I keep some headroom in the sample so that whatever filter or distortion or fx don't peak. Not sure if it is truly needed but I think paying attention to levels is important for a clean sound out of the tracker.

[@bahutu802]

@@lolf3782 Thanks a lot for the answer. Yeah, I noticed that clipping as well with high resonance etc.. Good to know that this might be one building block to avoid it.

[@wilkkick]

smart

[@Watche777]

Exquisite. Can this be resampled from performance mode or would you need to create a specific pattern for one of the chords?

[@lolf3782]

Excellent question! This is a limitation of the tracker. You cannot resample from perf mode (unless you go to external device of course). You also cant automatically convert a performance setting to a pattern (which would be super cool) so yeah, resample = build a pattern.

[@mathieurebacz391]

s it possible to do an Interstellar remix only on the polyend tracker ? I'm looking for a groovebox/sequencer-synth, which could do some cinematographic music, if you know something like that, let me know please

[@yechi5734]

Do you have a tuner hooked up to the tracker or is there an internal one that I have missed?

[@lolf3782]

I was running a tuner off screen in Ableton. It would be great if tracker had one built in.

[@gimmemovieth]

Are you using additional reverb other than the tracker's native one? I can't get mine to sound that good.

[@lolf3782]

All the sound is just the tracker and it's internal reverb. If your sound is getting too muddy, it's all about tuning those levels and filters, and also picking a sample that is a consistent pitch. The reverb settings I am using are at 4:05.

[@SonicVibe]

Sold mine the is was hella glitchy not reliable in live performances

[@tysoncarlson170]

Super early firmware? Strange, I’ve had the very occasional freeze or glitch but it’s been pretty much bulletproof

[@lolf3782]

I've heard of this from others. I've had mine over a year and only froze it once on a beta firmware. ymmv

[@SonicVibe]

@@lolf3782 good to know

[@Confuzius]

mine's pretty stable altough i've had more than enough freezes and stuff... but this is the first version of a new kind of product, so i'm patient. and very happy with what they've managed to do so far. i'm really looking forward to a tracker 2.0 in a couple years time!