Polyend Tracker Tips - Drum and Groove Tutorial

[@imgonnamakewaffles]

These tutorials are extremely under appreciated … this is useful knowledge on any instrument, not just Polyend. Hope these get the recognition they deserve soon. Thank you!!!

[@Aisjam]

Cheers Ian, Glad you think so. I am a tiny channel so its hard to get the messaging out there with the recommendation system so definitely tell your friends. However I just keep making the good content and people will come :)

[@LordHando]

This one is for beginner levels for sure.

[@vineyardrecordingstudio]

The 5/4 lofi tip is gold! 🙏

[@Aisjam]

Its a handy way of adding swing to trackers. Try other ratios too.

[@Sirvolta]

this is the best tracker tutorial i've seen yet :)

[@Aisjam]

Cheers, definitely trying to distill my knowledge of trackers in an easy to follow manner. Still working on the next video trying to not go crazy with melody music theory.

[@RayRischpater]

Excellent stuff. I was looking for exactly this sort of information --- not how to use the UI, but how to make effective beats with the tracker commands. Looking forward to watching part 2!

[@Aisjam]

Glad you enjoyed it Ray!

[@matthewwilson3673]

great videos for the tracker

[@Aisjam]

Glad you like them! Lots to get through still, however it a lot of fun making these.

[@Blarm]

Awesome, just in time! I just got my polyend a few days ago and have been watching all the tutorials. Most of them are pretty samey and I really learned something new from this! Subbed :) Keep the content coming!

[@Aisjam]

Awesome Blair, you are in for some fun i tell you. Make sure you on the latest firmware and get those samples. Still recording the melody vid as the more I go to explain the more i find out that nes music came from a broad set of composers.

[@semyonboyk0]

Cool tricks, thank you for sharing!

[@Aisjam]

Cheers Semyon. Thanks for watching

[@phillytnoize]

Very cool video and much thanks for the free sample pack! The sounds are dope and will be put to use immediately.

[@Aisjam]

Thank you TeeAbrafo, I hope you make some cool tunes with the samples!

[@Polyend]

Nice

[@Aisjam]

Cheers Polyend

[@landslidepurist]

I've been using Trackers since the Amiga days and I recently got a Polyend Tracker, and I must say your tutorials on it are absolutely the best around.

[@Aisjam]

Cheers buddy, glad they are getting you up to speed. think there has been enough updates for a new video soon.

[@BobOscuro]

Thanks a lot for the video!! Very useful!!

[@Aisjam]

Happy to hear. Hope you are following along with the series.

[@ruffark]

This was awesome, thanks for sharing your knowledge. I subbed because of all the tracker videos 🙂

[@Aisjam]

thanks for the sub. there is still more to go.

[@ElginChris]

Great video. I learned a few things. Thanks

[@Aisjam]

Glad to hear it

[@zetrel]

Best Tracker tutorial! Thanks a lot!

[@Aisjam]

Cheers Ivan. Have fun making drums.

[@Ori0987]

I hope you will reply, but I am curious about how you format other time signatures. Most beats are in 4/4, and the spaces needed to make a quarter note for example is obvious. But what if I want to write something in 6/8? I don't know if I articulated this properly, but I just don't know how to format time signatures other than 4/4 in a tracker.

[@Aisjam]

Cheers for the question Cav, this is where a bit of math comes in as we can change the resolution of the beat. The tracker's steps are usually set to be just a quarter note (4 steps to a beat). you can adjust the spacing. I''ll need to check in the menus where you can move the lines that is every 4 steps, however if you want the lines to represent 8th notes, set the value to 2 with a 2 step beat resolution or double speed the bpm to get 8th notes with 4 step beat resolution. You see a lot of trackers go at double speed to get more resolution. now to get the 6/8 bars you need to count out the step beat resolution. so with the double speed example you need 4x6 which is 24 steps per bar. keeping 4 bars to a pattern you would end up with 96 steps per pattern. this can be a bit to get started with however i really enjoy playing with odd timings with trackers. you can also use the tempo effect to make complex swing patterns. Hope this helps

[@AeonHorus]

Absolutely love your channel mate... Any chance you can go deeper into the granular Akai effect? It is something I would be very interested in...

[@Aisjam]

Cheers Philphy, I have done more of and overview here kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJW4fqGMatZshs0, this video focuses on break beat goodies with the Polyend Tracker.

[@alien_brain]

polyMETER

[@wariusgaius]

5:15 I appreciate the tip but adding that recording of rain in post was an especially nice touch.

[@Aisjam]

adding noise loops always adds some spice :). Have fun using it.

[@bengineer_the]

Aww yeah.. thank you ever so much! (particularly the blending samples tip!) :D

[@Aisjam]

No worries! Its why I made this series for. Have lots of fun with your tracker :).

[@oluxezer]

Thanks a lot for your tracker tutorials! So improving my knowledge of this instrument

[@Aisjam]

Happy to hear that. Hope you are having fun with your Tracker.

[@aki_gong6271]

Great content. Let's start the ride ;) Thanks for sharing🎉

[@Aisjam]

Any time!

[@JohanVandekerckhove]

Very clear tutorial ! Thanks! I'm considering the tracker more and more

[@Aisjam]

Cheers Johan, Its is a lot of fun, however I am probably not helping your wallet

[@Beautyoutofruin]

So if I spent a little bit of time, I’d be able to create something similar to a drum part found in Tools music?

[@marcoheinenbackstage]

you making good stuff!!!

[@Aisjam]

That's the plan. Hope it helps.

[@atlantisrelaxingmusic294]

thanks really useful tutorial

[@StudioOOMZ]

thanks man!

[@Aisjam]

No problem :)

[@fern6956]

One of the most informative video ive seen! Thanx a lot

[@drd8974]

I've had this thing for a few weeks and I'm like "WHYYYY can't it do an evenly spaced number of slices? WHY?????" then 17:57 happened

[@Aisjam]

Don't you like it when some obscure nugget of information pops up 17:57 into a video and everything just clicks :).

[@ArmandoDiCianno]

Hey! Thanks for these videos. Just working through them now. I wanted to note -- the downloaded sample pack is somewhat different than in the video. The available percussion samples are different, and the Breaks are missing entirely.

[@Aisjam]

Cheers, Didn't realised I changed up the sounds. I just copied what is have on my Polyend Tracker and uploaded it to Gum Road. Happy tracking.

[@unrat666]

Yeehaaa. that got me thinking...thnx!

[@Aisjam]

Cheers Unrat666, Lots of stuff in this. Gimme about an hour and you will be getting a sound design video.

[@77377]

Subscriiiiibed!

[@Aisjam]

Thank you Aleksei.

[@shatteredsquare]

THIS IS WHACK

[@Aisjam]

Ba dum tiss