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Cameron, this is really valuable. Thank you for making this video!

@lesjamusic

2 жыл бұрын

+100 - inspiring video 🔥

@VenusTheory

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers! 🍻

6:00 you could have pressed Pattern + Copy and then go to the new pattern and press Pattern + shift + copy. Would have saved a few steps. But you’ve also shown folk how to copy & paste just certain tracks, which is all good too 👍🏼. Great video.

People..If you're not playing with the Tracker,you might be stuck in the same,same,same way of trying to create music.It's probably the best way to invest $600,and you can take it anywhere.It's coming on a trip with me this weekend..I use a tablet,laptop,Zoom recorder to grab sounds,and the Polyend Tracker to create organized noise...

@VenusTheory

2 жыл бұрын

The weirdness of the Tracker is so refreshing when I feel like I'm stuck. Totally breaking that conventional workflow is really inspiring!

@michaels5166

2 жыл бұрын

@@VenusTheory I started with the Ensoniq ASR10,and people said all sorts of trash about it,because they could not get their head around it's so called 'limitations'.I even bought the 16MB RAM update and never installed it,and worked over 20 years with 2MB.It's my baby that runs my live setup on the turntables,with a Roland HS60,which i also run everything through.Since then,I bought Yamaha A4000 I gave away,a Em-u E6400,I have yet to delve into,a JamMAn,and the ROland MV8800,which is another unsung monster.I just recently got the Tracker,and more doors have opened,plus,this time I can travel around with it.I hate the preset mindset,so I am full out Open source,into Reaper,into VCV,into anything that keeps the mind going in different directions.

WE NEED MOAR!!!!!!! seriously tho this was awesome 👌 👏

You just had to sneak your best bud Paul-stretch in there didn't you 😂! Very interesting BTW 👍

That is a really nice notion that something like the Polyend Tracker can be that other collaborator that can inspire and help you to create. Food for thought.

@VenusTheory

2 жыл бұрын

Sequencers can be a ton of fun to experiment with if they offer some degree of randomness available. You can get a lot of new ideas that way because they'll combine (or generate) combinations of stuff you may not think to try yourself!

This is great timing, I've had the Tracker for a year or so and have had a lot of fun with it just using it as more of a stand-alone. I only just recently starting trying to work it in with the rest of my gear, this gives me a lot of ideas

So glad you made this video. Wonderful!

And really cool music, as always :)

wow love that can be great tool for creating lo-fi sounds thank you sharing all that knowledge around !!!

This is great, I'm super impressed with how great of an idea this is!

Thank you for sharing this! The fill feature is far and away my favorite feature of the tracker. Helps me get inspiration when it's hiding from me. Typically I leave it on bass lines, but definitely makes me want to try to leverage it for ambient stuff.

You made me grab my tracker and try this out and the result is just beautiful. I would love to see a more in depth video about the topic as you've mentioned in the video.

The pattern playback selection in the performance mode is so deep; I didn’t even notice it was there. Great video. Instant subscribe here 🤘

Superb Video! Thank you!

Holy crap, I just got my Tracker and there you are with a video on it 😁

Thanks for this! Is really amazing step further for me till im pretty new to tracker and dawless electronic setup 💫 had struggle to configure midi first but after while i started jamming with generative stuff looper and microfreak for hours. 👍 would love to see more tutorials and thoughts of tracker and beyond. the potential of this thing is stunning 🌟

Great video man .

This was not stupid and none trash but very inspiring !!! Thanks for sharing your uncommon ideas 💡

"Fleshy meatbag inclinations" is a sick death metal band name

this is the first video of yours I've seen and you have the best voice on KZread.

Tight.

This was great and I was able to replicate something similar on the polyend play using this concept. i want to try this concept and use a long sample and set random sample position triggers every where across multiple patterns.

Got mine for Christmas & only just started using it. I remember seeing a tracker in the early 90s, when I was just 11-13. Went right over my head, far too complicated for me. All I was able to do was edit existing tracks. Even now I'm finding the polyend tracker+ complicated but I just need time. Kinda feels like I jumped in the deep end as this is my first instrument. It's clearly evident as my regen pattern sounds terrible. Which daw suits the tracker? Would the Behringer crave pair well with this? PS only other music hardware I have is midi controllers.

A lot of people talking about generative techniques talk about how these techniques can create ideas that can be expanded upon to create "a full piece" but I've never seen anyone actually show how they start from generative 'sketches' and produce a somewhat finished work.

@VenusTheory

2 жыл бұрын

Check out the new album Stochastic from Carbon Based Lifeforms! All generative compositions. I would guess though it's mostly due to the fact that the whole process just takes a lot of time, and doesn't make for a very fun/watchable video. Not too interesting to watch people noodle about for hours and hours.

@oddObjekt

2 жыл бұрын

@@VenusTheory Yeah, that's definitely understandable. Some general pointers would be helpful though. I've come across some videos talking about expanding loops into larger pieces and that has been useful but insight into techniques for doing that with generative material would probably be enlightening. Thanks for the music recommendation.

nice, is there an extended version?

Hey there. This is still great two years later. I have the tracker mini on the latest firmware, and I’m curious how a couple of years and some firmware updates might change how you approach this kind of music, or this particular workflow. Thanks anyhow for the video. Super cool

1:38 can you spell that plugin? - Ah I got it - Stochas!

@VenusTheory

2 жыл бұрын

Got a full video on it here as well! kzread.info/dash/bejne/ia2smsWzZ9LefKw.html

You've got a perfect voice, intonation and pitch to be a commentator for a TV channel or a radio station...

Hi Cameron, here Alexi from Colombia 🇨🇴 in South America. As usual fantastic and inspiring vid Cameron. I saw your video on euclidian rhythms using the Torso T1. How do you compare the capabilities of the tracker with the ones find it in the T1? Is t possible to achieve similar results. What are the advantages of one over the other?

If you are into trackers, I recommend checking out Renoise and Redux. Very powerful, mature, and extensible tools.

Can you do this same sort of generative stuff with samples internal to the device? For example, could you use the fill function to generate random slices of a sample recorded live into the device. Kinda looking for something that mimics some of the functionality of Buffer Shuffler in Ableton.

Very cool! And I'm curious, since I am literally >this close< to ditching my current DAW for Bitwig: would it be possible to create something similar in Bitwig's grid and/or the new note FX? Not to recreate this precisely, but get something roughly equivalent.

@VenusTheory

2 жыл бұрын

Yep! With the new Operators update, you can do all this in the piano roll. I may do a video on that in the future.

Is track 5,6,7 & 8 muted? because they also contain pattern 1 in performance mode?

Very nice. Maybe pure DAW version this?

Made in Poland ;)

Really interesting! Is there anything in software that offers similar functionality?

@bricelory9534

2 жыл бұрын

Stochas is a free VST that does probablistic sequencing. He did a video on it to see if it's your jam. Note that if you do go with it and in Ableton, you won't get the layers to work with different MIDI instruments - as far as I can tell, it's just a part of how Ableton is coded. Other DAWs may not have the same issues.

Would love to learn how you could do something like this directly on a DAW like Ableton Live. I think this has potential and is very useful but I’d rather experiment with the concept of randomness first to see if it would be worth the investment.

@arwpal5961

2 жыл бұрын

Look up clips and follow actions, there is plenty of potential for generative process with those.

@ftwinsidia

Жыл бұрын

Old comment I know, but I recommend watching Ned Rush's tutorial called 'ambient plinky plonk in Ableton'. It doesn't cover changing the sequence length like you can do on the Polyend Tracker, but you could do that manually yourself (or using a random number generator/LFO perhaps) once you've resampled everything. I often open up the patch I made following his tutorial and just let it play for hours in the background while I do other things. Generative music can be quite amazing.

gimme all the tracker content please

@VenusTheory

2 жыл бұрын

Love some hot tracker action haha

Now that's a used Tracker.

@VenusTheory

2 жыл бұрын

Haha it's a really fun little unit - usually have it sitting near my desk and noodle around on it throughout the day when I need a bit of a break.

I'm trying to save money and postpone my idea of buying a Polyend Tracker, but this video isn't helping. Damn this cool little machine!

@VenusTheory

2 жыл бұрын

Very fun little box indeed. Hard to put it down - as weird and sometimes infuriatingly limited as it is, it's one of those things you just constantly want to fiddle with and find a ton of inspiration in the process.

Could you make a video on the tracker - without reverb? :P

Cool tutorial. This is an example of how not to make tracker music. Fill option is for lazy ass music makers.