Bro we all have different viewpoints /life cycles styles / I’ve explained this as ‘‘making fun’’ but you still received it with bad reception ..
To tailor to your state of mind: I understand the ‘‘dated’’ thing, I have cycles of friends that where it’s all jokes, I also have friends where I dont use this type og humor .. I wouldn’t say it to the stranger at the bank,.. so I understand that my pun may be out of place … is that cool ? Can we move on .. as Im not apologizing as harm was never the intent.
What puzzles me is how the tracker gets all the attention when the Play+ is the first of the 5th Gen of groove boxes far ahead of what a tracker is and still has the potential to compete with the best of them (XY TV) if it included sampling engines capable of, slicing, FX and modulationwith the ability to render into a folder or onto a track or into a sampling engine
I’m tempted to get the headless and connect to a super cheap handheld that runs Linux. But I don’t wanna miss out on the sampling and built in microphone, midi i/o and also the performance isn’t the best apparently.
I had a chance to get a dirtywave m8 for. £360. If it’s that much sense worthy.
One thing I also don’t understand is the massive restrictions with the polyend trackers engine, the granular and wavetables are so basic almost not those things at all but just a sampler. Then they added synth engines but you can only have 3 working at once?!
Dirtywave can have 128 different instruments I believe… so I could have 8 synths playing at once. Also no restrictions on the sampling memory as it’s streamed from the SD card.
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The M8 hardware is a potato. I’m not sure what chipset the Tracker uses, but it has more memory (you load samples into RAM, after all) and I think a more powerful CPU, but I absolutely could be wrong. I think the M8’s synth engines are actually simpler in design for the most part, but they are quite robust and tweakable (esp with the use of tables). The Tracker synths are different architecture, I think more of a modern synth engine with more focus on being unique and emulating certain sonic characteristics.
Anyway, that’s my way of saying that using 3 synths at once actually is a hardware limitation for those types of engines more than it’s “less powerful” device overall. I’m completely okay with the device’s restrictions. I would like for the Tracker to have more synths or more tracks or more samples, but I’m okay with how it is – I bought it knowing it had those limitations. There are probably good reasons for the restrictions (you only need to see how much flack the Synth gets for not getting full polyphony with certain synth types because they let you push the CPU to its limits, which IMHO is a good thing, but others really don’t like it, even getting dragged for it on Bad Gear, although Florian hates everything unique or unusual so take that with a grain of salt). Something they could actually increase would be maybe letting you quickly switch to different presets on the fly for synths, or loading more samples (RAM allowing). I’m also okay with not supporting disk streaming because I think that can be a real headache (look at how much trouble the S4 is having with disk streaming and they are running a full Raspberry Pi stack internally, which is quite powerful chipset for the embedded system synth space). RAM based samples also have the potential for more effects and manipulation, but that gets back to the point of this thread where there hasn’t really been any feature enhancements for a while.
If there’s any takeaways from this topic it’s that we need to either post feature requests, or bring our conversations/frustrations to the ones already existing. If you’re vocal about how the feature would improve your workflow, it might encourage others to also vote and get it on Polyend’s radar.
On the other hand, I do miss some kind of predictable feedback loop from Polyend’s developers on the requests posted. Even some of the top voted have been around for years and most have been heavily discussed. But there’s no formal indication whether or not they are even attainable, or if they are in any way part of Polyend’s intended firmware rollout.
