I feel like if someone memorized all the short cuts on the Tracker and was making a banger in a coffee shop, people would think they’re hacking into the government! Awesome stuff!

@justinmccamish9059

4 жыл бұрын

Gar Hoover They are. The hardware’s just a cover. How do we know the radio circuitry is receiving only? Huh? Huh? Prove me wrong!

@MidiFister

4 жыл бұрын

Honestly using renoise on a laptop in a coffee shop kinda had that feeling all the time. I've been finding it hard to justify this over just a laptop with renoise since I can see how renoise is faster for a lot of this stuff, plus the vsts and other crazy abilities available. However this would be nice to just boot up and not worry about what problems windows or my sound driver might decide to have

@inf0tr8r

3 жыл бұрын

@@MidiFister no wifi, no emails, no interwebs... just glorious sound & spreadsheet goodness

@donaldpriola1807

Жыл бұрын

Great comment, man. :)

This is basically making a song using Excel... I must own this...

@zeusdeux

2 жыл бұрын

you speak my language Caleb

@PlanetNinetyTwo

2 жыл бұрын

😂🤣So accurate.

@MrMissingReel

29 күн бұрын

I hate exel 😂

Thanks for the video Ricky, I think you hit the nail on the head - the complexity, unpredictability and the fun! I switched to Renoise about 4 years ago and never looked back! Trackers take time to get a fluid workflow (I guess like anything) but once it clicks, it’s just crazy how powerful, interesting and fun making music becomes - especially on just a laptop and headphones. My advice to anyone is don’t try to make you’re usual stuff at first but instead experiment to learn the fx commands and general workflow then it will just click and you’ll have the power! I expect the Polyend tracker to be much the same but more immediate than Renoise, with added bonus of creative limitation, performance features, that fill mode and a radio! I'm so happy this thing exists, can’t wait for mine to arrive!

@ollerich32

4 жыл бұрын

This should be in the top comments so all the naysayers get some hint on how and why to overcome their reluctance.

“This is a cardinal sin of EDM right here.” 🤣🤣 When will we ever stop seeing this, deadmau5??

@ChickenChipotleSandwich

4 жыл бұрын

@dewdubee they will be when i get the new moog just wait

@bilirubinator

4 жыл бұрын

dewdubee He’s joking bro

@spanishflew

4 жыл бұрын

“This is a cardinal sin of EDM right here.”

@justinmccamish9059

4 жыл бұрын

Øystein Rivrud Actually, a new Moog may have been leaked just hours ago.

@rwalden87

4 жыл бұрын

Deehhhnehneehhhhhh

I started off with Renoise about 12 years ago as my first daw. It takes a while for it to "click" but man, the amount of control it gives you is absolutely insane.

Folks who used trackers in the late 80s and early 90s will certainly get it. I think it’s great. I used to write/publish Amiga mods back in the day. This seems like a natural fit. Thanks Ricky. 👍

@UncleBoogieRF

4 жыл бұрын

Same here. Too bad I won’t be able to afford this. The live sampling is awesome!

@user-or3ce4gt2r

4 жыл бұрын

Amiga times 🙌

@HenleyBailey

4 жыл бұрын

I spent tons of time in Scream Tracker 3, looks a lot like that. Liking it.

@Roomer645

3 жыл бұрын

@@UncleBoogieRF No worries ... get yourself an ipad and use the App Vivid Tracker ! Your all good. Much much cheaper than this option and there are 1000's of mods online from the amiga era to get started and have your instruments. All you will ever need and fully standalone.

Man, this takes me back to my tracker days. I was a little late to the scene for the C64/128 and Amiga stuff (plus I never had an Amiga), but I was hardcore into modedit on the 386! This totally has that feel- and that crunchiness you're talking about is exactly how I remember those old .SAM and .VOC files. I'd love to hear some of those late night, different head-space jams sometime, btw ;-) Cheers and stay safe!

Love the physical interface of this tracker, looks really natural and to use. Seeing you using it made me smile just seeing how easy it is. Try a tracker in a computer and you'll spend days looking for stuff.

Trackers are very intuitive to use! My setup uses a BeatStep Pro as master clock/MIDI sequencer for standalone synths with an XOR Electronics NerdSeq for my eurorack synths. It's a very powerful and versatile combination!

@mitchellborne7428

4 жыл бұрын

dude yessssss. I have a Motu Midi Express XT driving all my hardware being controlled by renoise. Its like living in a dream......

Back in the days, when we used Tracker on the Amiga 500. Damn. Now i need this hardware version. Thanks for the video.

Really enjoyable to watch because you have the basics down but you’re making the rest up!!! Which is exactly how most users will be when they first get one. I’m getting one to take away on holiday this summer. Just need a battery pack and I’m good to go 👍

John Tejada is One Legend of Electronic music! Loving this channel! Inspiring, clear... Everything you want !

We need more tracker videos especially now the firmware has progressed so much, let’s see you use it with an mod or some synths!

Man great Vid. I really dig how you show you learning it, making mistakes, making cool discoveries. It’s real and raw and it gave me a good idea of how it really works. Also, cool groove you got too.

the keys of this thing sounds satisfying and it gives me asmr

I love your videos. This has been on my hit list ever since they built the prototype. Cheers dude!

I adore Renoise! I am glad that trackers in general get more love after all these years. First with the NERDseq and now the Polyend.

Preordered. Want to see this in the future. Keep up the great work.

BTW that moment where you removed the plastic from the screen was WONDERFUL

@ShaighJosephson

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao... That was the highlight for me too... 😂

I really like this Machine , more content on it please Ricky!

This Tracker has been my best purchase this year! I like learning new stuff. I'm an O.G. and learning new things might keep the aging process at bay.❤

@Niko80s

3 жыл бұрын

i agree, great little beast that's full of capabilities, and advantage of regular firmware updates/upgrades :)

Thanks for sharing these vids, very grateful for your help in learning this new instrument. I watched a couple of your vids can’t remember which is the one you mentioned about the note data spilling into spare tracks when real-time recording. You can prevent this by just arming the one track you want info entered into by holding shift>rec. that way, sounds will just replace or choke what’s in there instead.

Would love to see another vid on this honestly, weirdly inspiring workflow

oh hell yeah, i've got one preordered and i'm so excited to get my hands on this thing! would be verrry interested in seeing some more videos from you featuring the the tracker, would make the wait for it a lot more bearable lol also curious as to wether it has any kind of resampling, as that could be used to somewhat get around the 8-track limit on it, not to mention that using that in conjunction with some of the granular/wavetable-y capabilities of the device could get very fun very fast

@whheaattzmayne3183

4 жыл бұрын

I nearly preordered one as well.... but I needed a recorder for little sample stuff so I got the h6 and figured by the time this touches the shelves I'll have more zzounds stuff paid off and I'll be able to finance this

Thanks for making this Ricky. I like your calm, chill vibe. I might be in the minority with this one, but I'd actually love to see a much longer video of you developing this song - either within Tracker, or in a DAW. It would be nice to know the abilities (and limitations) of the Tracker in the hands of a more accomplished artist such as yourself.

Love this. I got my start back in the 90s with a tracker. Scream tracker and impulse tracker.

@jeremybrainard9902

3 жыл бұрын

Same! Was in an industrial tracking group called 7YNIVf... Started by some ANSI artists from ACiD

@HenleyBailey

3 жыл бұрын

Still got a ton of my .s3m files :D

@ryangilmore5676

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeremybrainard9902 Some of your old tracks, and some of Oned's, heavily influenced me. That scuba something song by oscillate still randomly pops up in my head. Good stuff, thanks for reminding me.

@jeremybrainard9902

3 жыл бұрын

@@ryangilmore5676 thanks man! I really miss those collaborations. Oned is still around, making amazing and complex ANSI art. He goes by the name ungenannt with the Blocktronics collective. Check it out! And good to hear from you man!

@nosebeareatsfudge3275

3 жыл бұрын

hey man, in impulse tracker, do you remember how to record while the pattern is playing? so that you csn enter notes while it plays back the tune? i still use schismtracker to make my music. same as impuöse tracker back in the day. thanks

nice.. looks like old school IMPULSE TRACKER, thats why ive considered using Renoise but haven't yet. Great opening line man! Subscribed

Would love to see more on the synthesis side of this thing!

Beautyful shoot of the product, the good taste in this guy is remarkable. The content too, but visually it is more aesthetic than the official videos of the Polyend channel. Thanks for the good job!

Only experience with a tracker was years ago using the Milky Tracker. Didn't get far with it but it was fun! This has piqued my interest for sure.

Whether I get one of these, this made me learn renoise. Still deciding if its a net positive. Enjoyed watching you learn the tracker mode, I learned a lot.

Absolutely, gimme more of that polish powerhouse!

I'm in the same kinda new "Feeling Dop(amine)" zone too. With the Push2. Been peeking alot on that Trak. Pretty funny cuz I've been waiting for u to do this video for the last few months. Cuz u know I wanna Push2 the next level ;) Great vid Ricky!! :D Divine Time...

Tejada is an inspiration to me too! I got so much vinyl of his.

Looks like a fun box and the UI is awesome!

As someone that grew up with Scream Tracker and Impulse Tracker I am extremely tempted to get this. Thanks for the review.

As an old Octamed and Fasttracker user this is really my thing! I do use Renoise now together with an MPC and some Roland Boutique synths, but I think this piece of gear will really shake my studio up once again. Plus, a tracker in hardware format? What's not to like?

This is such a powerful machine. Hopefully Polyend makes a Tracker Pro with a built-in battery, stereo sampling, increased sample memory capacity, rgb lighting on the pads, and other things that I can't think of at the moment

@phoenixvette

4 жыл бұрын

A Laptop?

@ifyouseekade

4 жыл бұрын

@@phoenixvette with CV in/out

Hah, this makes me feel better about my tracker skills. Keep doing something every day, It'll be interesting to see how quickly you improve.

indexing from zero is turning point for the electronic music world 🤯

I really love the fact you can sample FM radio. Honestly probably wouldn't use that feature that much, but the fact you can do it is still sweet

@RickyTinez

4 жыл бұрын

That’s exactly what I said, but every time I turn this thing on, it’s almost the first thing that I do to kind of get the creative juices flowing. And most of the time I end up not even using that sample but it’s the catalyst for the song itself

@whheaattzmayne3183

4 жыл бұрын

@@RickyTinez that's so dope. That's exactly what I imagined. I try to do similar things with the 404 and random spotify/youtube but it's not as smooth as I imagine this

@daniel_dumile

7 ай бұрын

There's a radio tuner built into MPCs these days Shame AM radio has such interference everywhere

Great video! Love the shots and edit! 🔥🎥🔥

Hi Ricky! Cool video as usually... If you had to compare the Tracker vs Octatrack MKI, witch one for you give the best for sampling edition& midi seq?

This is how I use to work in the 90s from time to time.. DROVE ME NUTS!! I can see why this piece of gear is for a particular type of artist. Seems like a workflow killer..

It's really cool that there are standalone hardware trackers now. In many ways, it's a big upgrade from software trackers. But in many ways, it's also a downgrade. It'd be really difficult to work with just 8 tracks, especially since they're monophonic and shared between samples and midi. I know there are tricks people can do to fit more notes into less space, but they're all just workarounds and aren't necessary when using other tools. More generally though, I've spent a lot of time using trackers, and although they're really nice in some ways, trackers are also a big part of why I stopped making music. It made music feel too much like work. I didn't get back into music until I found other tools and other workflows which suit me better. So I'm happy to see a new hardware tracker, but I have no plans to get one.

@GLI00M

4 жыл бұрын

Mostly the limitation makes for more need in creativity tho

Hey Rick, you've just sampled Fela Kuti from the radio, such a happy accident ;)

@randomaztec2208

4 жыл бұрын

One of my all time favs, Tony Allen and himself are big inspirations

@zeusapollo8688

4 жыл бұрын

Rip tony

@nathanfreebery8778

4 жыл бұрын

Woke

Love the groove you made! Got mine on pre-order! 😀 👊

such a beautiful piece of tech

I really enjoy your videos. Every time

I learned a fun little trick with this yesterday. I set up multiple tracks with one of the pad sounds. Then applied different volume LFO FX to them and created this amazing Detroit gated pad sound. I’m going to try and make a video about it and post it on KZread. I have never done that yet other than uploading GoPro footage of my snowboard trips so it may take a week or so. If anyone is interested I will link in this comment. ❤️

John Tejada - The Open, is one of my absolute favorite tracks

Can’t wait to receive mine off that pre-order! Can you do a video showing sample slicing and playback?

Hey man love the video how about tracker using iPad or controlling vst?

Heyo, love your videos! Super informative and easy to follow. Just a quick question, how would you compare the Digitakt to the Polyend in terms of functionality and usefulness in a DAWless setup if you were only going to have one?

Amazing stuff!! Thanks for sharing. I need that shelf you have back there. Can you share the info on it?

Hey RT, why won't the PeT be a part of your "big main studio?" It seems to be an insane sequencer at the very least. I know you're a big Digitakt guy, but it's limited to just 64 steps. I'm just kinda wondering because I just ordered a PeT to replace my BeatStep Pro.

The quotes at the beginning always keep me coming back

Great video. Cant wait to see what you think of the Deluge as well when/if you get one.

You mentioned we wouldn't want to see a video of a complete start to finish song construction, but that would be an absolute dream to watch you go from nothing to finished song

Hey Ricky! Awesome stuff!

sincerely hope there is an option of quantizing the performance FX mode! iow needs quantized performance fx play and also unquantified performance fx play/triggering....

Damn, those buttons be CLICKY.

@BillyBatsonMarvel

4 жыл бұрын

just like the Digitakt.

Legendary intro

As a long time tracker user, this looks really cool. And I like the beat in the beginning! You should fwonk it out proper more often man.

Will this slice a recording and assign those slices to the pads kinda like the OP-1 does?

As a Renoise user for 12 years..... its a cool peace but Ima stick with renoise. Its a really intense daw, takes a lot to learn BUT when it clicks..... holy shit man. Although BIG UPS to Polyend for making a hardware tracker!

@Multifobb

4 жыл бұрын

As an old tracker user my self I actually got back into music production thanks to Renoise. (After a break of ~ 10 years) I released an album this year and it's all thanks to Renoise! m.soundcloud.com/fobb/

@burprobrox9134

4 жыл бұрын

Agree Mitch

@dylangauthier418

4 жыл бұрын

Renoise is for Chads

@LoveMeBack

4 жыл бұрын

Still can’t get into renoise after all these years.

@bitumenboyy

4 жыл бұрын

I dont get whats the advantage of a tracker is. Its seems to me that its just more complicated than a regular daw. Can you tell me why you use it?

Can it be connected directly to amplifier with speakers or active speakers to listen? What I need is the unit like MPC Live or MPC one but with different workflow.

Tight demo track! Thanks✨🎶🐉

Pre ordered it day one, very pumped for it.

My first sequencer was a tracker octamed with an amiga 600 to sequence boss dr 550,juno 106 and akai s2000

Good demo! I want one! Used to make music(noise) on a tracker called FastTracker2

loved the video makes me wanna get one and i probably will in near future

the reason I use renoise is because it's simpler than regular DAWs, not the other way around 🤷‍♂️

Dope video Ricky! I also wanted to ask, and I know you generally try to stick to DAWless setups and that you really like the Digitakt, but I was wondering if you've ever had any hands-on with the Maschine Mk3 at all? I would love to hear your thoughts on this!

you alluding to Kotler was spot on! That, right there, is the key

Dope track, love it!

Can it warp samples like Ableton, or do you need to record them at the bpm you want to use them with?

So Ricky one question, I may have missed this. The tracker uses mono samples but my library is mostly 44.1 stereo, does it convert samples to mono on the fly as it imports them to a project or do you need to pre convert to mono?

4 жыл бұрын

aikighost yes it does convert to mono while importing from sd

@aikighost

4 жыл бұрын

@ Thanks for letting me know. This makes a purchase more likely.

I keep eyeing this device. I'm still on the fence, but your video highlights some of the things that I like about it. Namely the fill workflow, as well as the random chance feature. FM radio is a nice touch, too. How is the build? When I heard the case is aluminum, I got excited. Does it seem like the kind of thing you can put in a backpack without worrying about every step you take? How about the big wheel? Cheers, keep doing your thing.

WHAT?! I've been tracking since I was 13yo and wondered if they'd ever make a hardware tracker I can use. This seems pretty powerful! I'll have to compare it to OpenMPT

Big fan, you’re an inspiration, and knowing that Tejada is an inspiration for you i know I’m the right place! Btw I’m still a beginner producer and thinking of going for the Novation Circuit, i dig the Dawless world, any thoughts?

Excellent and hoping for more, and did I hear correctly, you can create it there and then upload to your DAW? Thanks!

I'm not sure I'm feeling the work flow on this but i do like the beat you made. i love that style of music.

This tracker is amazing. Since the latest update I really considering to buy one...

This looks so dope. Just looked at their website but can’t seem to find is disk streaming is a thing. Do you know if there is any sample size and storage limitations

@ToyKeeper

4 жыл бұрын

It doesn't do disk streaming. Total sample size per song is limited to what will fit in RAM, which IIRC is about a couple minutes worth of sample data. Ricky mentions it at about 18:40.

My first impression on this: Lot of menue diving, which is my flow killer. This screen is big enough for graphic based UI and Touchscreen.

@johansmolinski

4 жыл бұрын

Glad we are blessed from the touchscreen! This thing builds upon muscle memory which requires tactile feedback on everything. A touchscreen cannot meet that requirement. By the way, there are tons of good trackers for the iPad if you want a great touchscreen experience.

Every screen grab of your videos is a beautiful picture.

Ricky, thanks for mentioning and linking the book you quoted. Sounds interesting, I'll get it 🤓

10:23 The word you seek is "conventional". :) Good overview. I'm warming up to this crazybox bit of gear.

Over my head but, I do appreciate your content. Thanks.

I know these are super different, but since the OP-Z is another groove box at a similar price point, which would you choose if you had to?

@harveytherobot

4 жыл бұрын

I have the OP-Z and after a few days it clicked with me and it’s super fun. The only problem... it’s too damn small.

Great Video as always! I think the Tracker of the Tracker is fairly cheap for all the functions. But on the other hand it seems very complex to me and not very much like jamming out with myself and the machine.

Whoa, I knew nothing about trackers before watching this - seems like a very engineery workflow. Definitely seems like trackers would make you think about music more.. logically? Awesome vid as always, Enrique!

@EnCrypticon23x

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely! I used trackers for a very long time before moving over to the typical daws you see today. I like Ableton, but I don't click with certain things like I did a tracker. My workflow, no many how many tricks I learn, will never be as fast and fluid as it was on a tracker (Modplug Tracker was my weapon of choice). Maybe because I learned how to make music on them before I ever touched a real synth or professional recording software..?

The idea of having an entire DAW in a small sleek box like this is super appealing, but I also know from many previous attempts (and watching this video) that I _do not_ get along with the tracker workflow. If they could figure out a way to cram Live into this form factor, I'd be so happy.

Hello friends ..I have a tr8, tb3 and sh201and i have not PC ..i am looking for a workstation to produce .. i am seeing only the mc 707 and polyend tracker..i love house and techno music..what hardware do you recommend me? Thanks ;)

It’s certainly fascinating, but not for me. I’m most productive on the Elektron sequencer, but I loved the video and appreciate you helping point out how unique this thing this.

Man I can relate to that late-night weirdness

Please make more videos of the Polyend Tracker!!! I’m still debating if I want to get one and hearing more things that you come up with using it (and its workflow) would help a lot :) Great video as always!

Love this thing!

This is such an interesting, fresh approach to making music. Really opens up programmatic possibilities I haven't thought of before. And I absolutely hate it!

@harveytherobot

4 жыл бұрын

Lol