Play + Plus Review: The Autechre Machine?

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Play + Patches:
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[@TracklogMusic]

This is one the coolest things I've seen in so long. Such a beautiful and timeless song and very epic to see on the play.

[@alexiwiedemann]

Nice vid 🎉. I am so happy to see videos on the play+, 😊 there’s a shadow over the play+ based on the hype around the TI KOII. Good to see good content on this marvelous gear.

[@ToastedGhost]

Yes I understand the shadow… people paid full price for machine that now has in built machines… but that then reduced the orignal price to £450 the price originaly £800 to upgrade £400 ouch, though the new synths sound wicked

[@drakemccomas2346]

I need a full series of play plus videos from you

[@RonCavagnaro]

This synth engine sounds really cool ! Will be getting upgrade

[@DoctorRevers]

It’s a real nice machine. Very cool that your patches are in there. 👍👍

[@theunfrailhale]

Always enjoy your videos, and love seeing you show ways to recreate some of my favorite music. Thanks for your content 👍

[@jfg09]

This box sounds very good!

[@bradzerivitz]

Wow, your Kaini Industries cover was spot on.

[@soltec6704]

Play OS - even after several updates - has a deal breaker issue and CONFIRMED that it exists in the Play+ as well. When you grow the project to a bigger size the save and load time is impacted. So much that if you make a project with several rows of patterns the load and save time can be more than 45 minutes. This is a horrible bug that is easy to reproduce and any original owners of the Play can easily confirm it (and have.) Polyend confirmed the issue weeks ago in backstage and has still not solved the issue. 1. Make a few audio tracks and a couple midi tracks - nothing elaborate - save to a pattern. 2. Copy/duplicate the pattern to the next pad in the row. (To copy a pattern, press and hold the source pad and select the destination pad slot by shortly pressing it.) 3. Repeat #2 til you have 32+ patterns duplicated. As you continue to duplicate patterns each successive copy takes longer, eventually taking 45+ seconds and even longer as you continue copying. 4. When you have about three rows of patterns (48 pads) you should attempt to save the project. The save will take a very long time, likely as much as 45 minutes, so get out a timer and start it after you begin the save.

[@radfaraf]

I thought the bug was also related to using variations quite a bit, and isn't so bad without them?

[@Farold_Haltermeyer]

Have I got a different chipset? Haven’t had this problem and I’m creating some pretty hectic stuff. Maybe there was a hardware change?

[@radfaraf]

@@Farold_Haltermeyer it only happens if you use a bunch of variations and not normal patterns and it still happens on the play+.

[@Farold_Haltermeyer]

@@radfaraf I’m variation heavy...but I switched out my sad card for a faster one and that seemed to stop any freezes and save hangs with larger projects...BUT I use it as a drum synth essentially so maybe I’m not a typical user

[@radfaraf]

@@Farold_Haltermeyer I got a faster card too and it doesn't make a noticeable difference. After I got my play+ I did a quick test of just a simple drum beat maybe 4 sounds max, maybe about 3 variations. Then paste the same pattern thing over and over again in the track view or whatever it is called. By the time I get to 2-3 rows worth both the copy pasting and saving are extremely slow as compared to just a few patterns, and if I go quite a bit past 3 rows starts to get into unusable territory from how slow it is. So other guy found that bug, and a bunch of us who all tried it also ran into the same results both on the original play and the play+. Play+ should have the fastest hardware, but it doesn't seem to make the issue go away, seems more like a bug.

[@tblv9300]

they were smart to send you one

[@iamYork_]

Great sounds... brings me back... Makes me want to undust my favourite mono paperweight for some clicking...

[@Unifono2012]

great sounds.

[@praveensharmanyc]

My favorite apex track!

[@xopsuey]

Amazing video! Please some tutorial Step by step for BoC or Aphex? Thank you and congrats

[@nalaeel219]

Man, you do really good with these polyend stuff. Does this multitrack record?

[@EZBOT_]

It does!

[@nalaeel219]

TY good sir :D @@EZBOT_

[@villaribabambule]

Nice to see your Patches on the Play Plus 👍

[@b1ist3rs]

I'm real glad I'm paying off $650 for the old model used and if I had waited another couple weeks I could've gotten it new for $500.

[@TracklogMusic]

You can upgrade for cheaper through the official site

[@squarelanguage]

Thanks for the great patches. The audio over usb seems like a really good feature, curious to know if it records effects too from a performance

[@NH-gz2kh]

me too! still dont know if it does

[@NH-gz2kh]

stem export on play og def does not ofcourse. but with the plus tracking live?

[@denniseldridge9266]

ohtastic!

[@saardean4481]

This looks and sounds great when someone uses it this way. For me personally seeing this is like having my tr6s with even more menu diving. Its one of those cases where i enjoy seeing others use something i dont feel like using if that makes sense

[@jdoodah]

Another great video! Will you be doing any more tracker tutorials? Would love an autechre style tracker project to play with! Thanks Patrick! (I’m on your Patreon but had to cancel for a few weeks, I got scammed and need to reset all my banking info)

[@jdoodah]

Also, would play projects open on tracker by any chance?many thanks. Recently caught AE live in Dublin and would love a tracker or ableton vid (just got live 11, have to learn it!)

[@Digiphex]

@@jdoodah They don't work on Tracker unfortunately. It is two different paradigms for making music.

[@jdoodah]

Sorry, yeah I actually didn’t know how different it is from the tracker when I asked lol my bad! I thought they may open in some form. I’d love if you did another tracker vid in the future but all your content is amazing and love what you drop on the Patreon, I really appreciate all the patches and samples etc. I use them a lot! I’m hoping to get back into using the tracker and was wondering if maybe you have some more projects you might drop on the Patreon? I learned a lot following your tutorials and your vids are the reason I got one to begin with! Happy new year bro and hope it’s a great one for you 🥳

[@andycordy5190]

Personally, the exhaustive process of patch editing renders the synthesiser inaccessible and irrelevant for me. In comparison to the workflow of the original Play, which can render a beat very quickly, depending on one's speed accessing the sample storage, this looks very clunky.

[@harveytherobot]

If they can add an update to allow external controllers to change parameters through midi then I think it would help a lot. Or a software editor. Either would be an improvement.

[@SixteenVoice]

Very educative. Thank you.

[@thelemetric]

the engine sounds excellent. boc on point.

[@hut48]

How do stereo samples sound compared to mono on the original, worth the upgrade?

[@Digiphex]

It's up to you to decide but there is a huge improvement in having synths, USB audio and stereo samples.

[@gummo187]

❤❤❤❤

[@radfaraf]

omg hi

[@dalek604]

Are you gonna do the mono -stereo bit?

[@villaribabambule]

I 'm really interessted in your patches. How could I get those ?

[@Digiphex]

Link in description box.

[@villaribabambule]

Thanks a lot 🙏

[@jaffa7290]

hi sounds fab, how much is it in pounds, do you know

[@ToastedGhost]

£800 same cost as the original Play was

[@dmg9544]

Where is autechre? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Digiphex]

Eutow you see in the close up 2:06 maybe the second patch is one of their biggest songs. Then following that I play Eutow using the patch Drukqs. And then the example with tuned drums 8:50 is Crystel.

[@pirateradioFPV]

"As you can hear, ----- patch is a generic low passed oscillator sound that you can get by twisting the LP pot by yourself in about 1/5th of a second" . . apparently it's too much work for you to come up with original sounds, too. Enjoy your free Play.

[@Farold_Haltermeyer]

Miaow!