Ah yeah, good catch! Amon Tobin is exceedingly deliberate with his sound selection. You can hear it in everything he does.
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Might be a good alternative to taking out your SP, MPC and mic in the garden 
Although I’m not sure about the form factor of going around sampling with a book sized black rectangle… I’m not sure that appeals to me personally and would rather use a dedicated field recorder, and keep that process separate. It reminds me of the clunkiness of when you see people taking photographs on their iPads (usually estate agents or your nan). That, or a man of the cloth walking around with a bible.
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Might be a Polyend take on the Chompi which kickstarts for $475, so my guesstimate of the Polyend effort will go to €600.
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chompi was 599 black , and 699 pink if I’m not mistaken
This summarizes a lot of how I feel about Polyend as a company. The products don’t really speak to me, but that is OK, I accept that I am probably not the target market. I don’t see a company necessarily focused on innovation, I see a company that is looking to slowly fill out a portfolio of products and become another well-known option for choices.
The Polyend Tracker supports resampling.
It just doesn’t support sample and play.
Well at least it’s interesting to see the renewed interest for sampling from all these small manufacturers, while big players keep creating sample players that can’t even sample…
Hopefully with the success of Chompi and this we’re going back to quick, easy sampling and even cheap sampling keyboards that have more than 7 second sampling time…
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Benn posted another short on Youtube, sounds good!
Sounds cool. Hopefully those chords are a built in synth… or at least it does polyphony with samples.
I’m tired of mono samplers with 1 voice in 2023 ffs
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it has a render function, but that is not the same… it’s hardware won’t allow true resampling and this cannot be changed with firmware.
Well, that’s kinda the limitation of trackers. Renoise gets around it by allowing tracks to be grouped, with poly spread when recording (and being software, the capability of many tracks), but in the latest bunch of hardware trackers/samplers limited to 8 tracks, I don’t see any way to implement polyphony other than one voice per track.
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Polyend tracker does that when live recording. But it’s not that elegant.
M8 Tracker did it nice. Internal midi routing
Hmm, all the current PE devices exclusively use samples, and the video shows sampling in nearly every frame, I don’t think, they are promoting synth-engines this time.
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I don’t necessarily need a synth engine per-se, but a way to sculpt a sample into a synth would be nice. some nice filters, envelopes, good antialiasing… can get you far.
Looks to me in that video he’s playing the chord and possibly recording into it as a sample, this ain’t gonna be polyphonic is my guess.
I sold the PE Play recently, as I just couldn’t get it to work for me, too limited when it came to melodic stuff, I’m about to buy a used Deluge, it does everything anyone could surely need? and now with the oled screen even better.
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yes, but to quote your words I am replying to: “Hopefully those chords are a built in synth”
On top of that: I was never able to do exactly that with the PE Tracker, that ended in selling it for me.
Agreed, but sadly Tracker had nothing of that… imo of course
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It’s not a good tracker unless it has an antialiasing toggle. Sometimes you need that crunch!
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