Hi there.
I’m an old school Tracker boy, started in the early nineties with OctaMED on Amiga, in 1997 I’ve printed my first vinyl with a track made on Fasttracker2. Old good times.
After so many years, I had a “backfire”, like we use to say in Italy.
The Polyend Tracker is outstanding, not perfect but absolutely a marvel of technology that I could only have dreamed of as a child.
That said, the lack of SPEED parameter is a downside for me: let me explain.
I’ve seen a lot of posts regarding “FX TIME”, It’s cool, but far from what SPEED is.
For example, I’m aware that a 120BPM track to play as i want to need to be set at 240BPM, but everything connected to the tracker would be affected, and this is a total mess.
This means I can work only at 1/16 resolution, and for my perspective It’s a huge restriction.
Hope this make sense, I’m new to this Tracker, but seems there are no functions related to SPEED.
Any help will be appreciated, and an upgrade would be awesome.
I second that a clock divider of some sorts would be awesome. I would use it to change the behaviour of the Roll Fx and make it more usable for my taste. Totally worth to create a wish for it
yes. I would like to propose another fueature to add: to be possible to change rows - note/instruments/fx1/fx - via arrow keys as well, not only via dedictaed func buttons - my muscle memory from times when i was using fasttracker is still on and i am sometimes accidently jumping to row but in another channel.
Has the addition of a speed parameter or Renoise-style ‘lines per beat’ ever been posted as a wish? This would be such a great improvement, I often like to have more resolution without doubling the BPM.
@Sandroid I believe I read somewhere on this forum that you have a Blokas Midihub. Do I understand correctly that the Midihub’s tempo divider could be used to circumvent the lack of a speed parameter in the Tracker? In other words: have the Tracker running at 200BPM, feed that into the Midihub, and have all other gear responding to the 100BPM that the MIDIHub is outputting?
Thanks! Then I’m getting one for sure. Just the tempo divider is reason enough to get it, but it has all kinds of other neat tricks that might even render both my Kenton USB-to-MIDI and my Quadra Thru useless.
It’s super versatile. Just the presets alone are super useful.
This way i can choose what device in the chain should be the master on the fly.
I’ve added a CME WIDI Thru6 BT into the mix as well, allowing me to bring Bluetooth MIDI into all of this as well. Thanks to the filtering/routing on the Blokas, you have lots of possibilities.
Then I’m getting one for sure. Just the tempo divider is reason enough to get it, but it has all kinds of other neat tricks that might even render both my Kenton USB-to-MIDI and my Quadra Thru useless. 