Rendering Is Broken

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After a disaster trying to get some tracks i wrote on the tracker into a format so that I can mixdown and release.. I am just posting this here to register my disappointment.

I’ve used the Tracker since it’s release and have downloaded and installed every firmware,

But honestly rendering is so fcked. The tempo each stem is rendered at is

a. inconsistent from stem to stem

b. different to the tempo stated as the tempo for the whole song.

Honestly a song of any length just won’t render properly. All the timing and groove of the song ‘as heard’ from the main outs of the tracker is destroyed when rendering.

The only option is to solo the tracks and record the audio out of the main out..

but wait !! each time the track plays back there is so much tempo variation that the stems STILL do not align.

I just wou;dn’t buy a polyend product again after years of frustration with this product. It’s so close to being perfect but so far from being usable. I genuinely CAN’T use it anymore.. because when I try and export to release it fails. and the audio engine isn’t good enough to not want to export the stems.

.it export also doesn’t work.. what comes out is some weird mess that bears no relation. the notes and the patterns are there but none of the instruments are carried over.. makes everyhting sound like a General Midi File

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In my experience, the best way to get tracks into a daw is via the USB port - set up 14 tracks and just play your track with input recording on. No timing issues.

I see render tracks less as an export function and more as a way to commit or flatten parts so they can be reintroduced as audio within the Tracker itself. It keeps the workflow self-contained rather than turning it into a DAW handoff step.

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This functionality doesn’t exist on the OG tracker

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I use multi-track stems from trackers in ableton with rhythmically complex tracks as a regular part of my process. I put a a blank pattern at the start… then a blank pattern at the end with cuts in the first step of every track as well as zero out the rev/del fx. That way all my tracks are precisely the same length and perfectly aligned throughout. Tails from samples and fx seem to be what can throw things off in my experience.

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That’s not been my experience. The samples don’t align properly. As you say seems to depend how the instruments themselves are set up. adding fx etc seems to change position of sample on the ‘grid’