I’m a later adopter of the og play. Before purchase my initial impressions led me to refer to it in my mind as the polyend random. Still, I could not resist the curiosity to explore the potential.
I’m not sure how I feel about these most recent betas, They certainly align with the Play concept but not being able to record what you play in those modes is meh. Much respect to Polyend for being transparent and showing the work they have continued to put into their devices.
Play gets so many things right. The per track play modes and independent track speeds among many other things are brilliantly implemented. But IMO, as a sample oriented groove box, the lack of modulation options, sample looping and mlr style gesture looping per track are disappointing.
I’ll be keeping it for a while I think. I’m using it mainly as a rhythm machine and midi sequencer. I haven’t enjoyed programming on board melodic content on it as much as I would have liked up to this point. Time will tell.