Polyend Tracker - 5 Tips For Instrument Creation

Now the Polyend tracker isn't really known for its sound design and its instrument parameters look simple. However it can be a little powerhouse for making some really good sounds. I wanted to highlight some lesser known things you can do to get the most out of the tracker workflow.
00:00 - Start
00:26 - Creating looping samples and Single cycle waveforms
03:11 - Single Cycle waveforms
04:41 - Adjusting instruments to hit song time
07:42 - Granular TimeStretch
10:07 - Stealing
12:35 - Understanding how numbers relate to make more dynamic instruments
14:53 - FX commands and stacking
16:22 - LFO Phase Shifting
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[@iiaaiiaannaaiiaaii]

This was great! I'm exactly the kind of goofball that found your LFO phase trick stimulating. I just hadn't thought of using the Fill option as a dedicated automation lane shortcut and had been awkwardly punching in values by hand. My first go was to double a sound and use Fill to automate the fine tune and got a really cool hard sync right away- love that! Then I started getting weird with granular and sync- very cool! Excited for future content from you. Thank you!

[@sinewaymusic]

Very useful, thanks!

[@FranckMaintenay]

Thanks a lot for this tutorial. You shows that the PT isn't a simple "samples player" !

[@Aisjam]

That is the plan. Still a very under rated machine

[@vvlvmusic]

Nice one, great ideas for sound design on the PT! Huge fan of the granular timestretch. Makes me want to finally get back into some Tracker jams. Thanks.

[@Aisjam]

Cheers buddy, It can be a bit glitchy but the granular synth has some awesome sounds in it too. Also do it, get the analog pocket out again.

[@larskrismes2999]

Great tutorial. Very helpful for total beginners in making electronic music like me. Thank you!

[@marysia_c]

Wow, I must try your unique solutions 🤩

[@dustyaudio]

Some great tips, especially the steal one. Something I just realized was using small amounts of 1 step-Random LFOs on fine tune & volume of my drum samples, trying to give some more live feel to them. This may be obvious to some but helps get me the sound I’m going for! Thanks for all the information you put out for these trackers! 👍🙏🖖

[@Aisjam]

Cheers buddy, That is a good use for the automation of finetune.

[@dustyaudio]

@@Aisjam yeah, I’m realizing the volume one is much more of a creative change

[@brainbox9219]

Good idea, gotta remember that one

[@chorochronos]

Thanks a lot 🙏 very helpful

[@Aisjam]

Glad it helped.

[@aki_gong6271]

All great info, as usual ;)

[@Aisjam]

Cheers, Try to make the good content.

[@brainbox9219]

I had to go back to 1.6 firmware because it’s way more stable than the current firmware, I should be able to do much of this on the older firmware I’m hoping?

[@allgonewrongful]

Do you know of any app/program, that can let you create instruments, save them as a pti. File and import them into the tracker? (For drum kits, synth stabs, vocal one shots etc, to play in slice mode). I tried a web app someone created, but it came out a bit glitchy.

[@Aisjam]

I only know of 1 that can generate .pti files. Usually I will have sessions of sound design with Reaper and then sessions on the Polyend Tracker just making instrument files. I have a lot more control with well prepped samples to begin with.