Currently Tracker+ and Mini 2.0 have 3 polyphonic synth slots (8 total concurrent voices between them), along with the standard 8 sampler tracks. A nice enhancement would be to allow users to slot into 1 or more of the synth voice slots a “sampler” which would act functionally like one of the synths in both the pros (macros, midi chord/arp support, overlapping notes, etc.) and cons (limited performance FX, lack of synth mode/midi CC control, no step patch switching).
What is the problem?
Tracker+ / Mini is hard-limited to 8 sample tracks (polyphony) per project. An easier way to implement additional sample voices without fundamentally refactoring the instrument architecture would be add an additional “synth” which is a PTI instrument sample player borrowed from the core tracker instrument engine. This instrument would behave like the other synth engines in regard to handling sequencing and its voices, the only difference being that it would playback samples similar to the core tracker section.
What should this feature achieve?
Additional sampler voices with a lower level of development effort over adding a true 16-voice sample tracker mode.
Are there any workarounds?
Putting a second tracker into midi synth mode, sequencing it with the first tracker on midi channel(s).
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