I still have mine (as I got it cheap and I like the idea of having a hardware tracker) but I would agree very much with this statement. It’s probably the worst sounding piece of hardware I own.
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We can only speculate on the motives of flaggers, but I suspect some want to tamp down personal disagreements they see getting out of hand. Comments that are too far off topic might also be flagged, even if they are not “offensive”.
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This one had slipped me by and first I’d heard of it is when you posted it in this thread.
Reading the blurb is sample limit 1 second? Is it easy to lead with samples? Seems focus is on recording
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…björk will stick with her portable, battery powered, handheld music machines by yamaha from the deep 90ies…i’ll go with a dirtywave…meanwhile, we can skip all negative aspects of trackers, since there are simply the obvious limitations that a tracker makes a tracker…
and no, björk’s yamaha pocketeers were no such thing…i know…but holy moly, she nailed a first sketch idea for each of her worldhits on one of those…
and if that ui is actually the real thing, it’s nothing but the fair end of all discussions about right or left hand users…this thing is made for nothing but heavy use of both of ur thumbs…
u hold it like a paperback with both of ur hands, while ur thumbs doing all the move, all over it…
so, let’s hope polyend nailed the tactile feel of the bottons…and if there’s a vertical ribbon strip, we better adept and admire it, since it won’t be the last one we gonna see…
ribbon strips with various backlight response is the future in hardware control options…
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Well, no. But I admire your confidence in posting this — especially considering we’re in a thread centered around a tracker that is not meant to be keyboard driven.
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I noticed the title of the thread of changed but has there been any confirmation that it will be a mini tracker instead of some other portable device?
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It’s Pokémon. Gotta catch them all 
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This is the best of the teasers. I love the little creature. Reminds me of princess mononoke a bit.
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The marketing on this makes no sense to me. It went from claymation objects to line drawings of characters…
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Polyend Voice Shape Light Start Collecting Tomorrow Field.
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Clay – stretch and form simple sounds
Character – use already complex sounds
You can follow the story from video to video: dude got dropped into the wild, plays with rocks, goes exploring and stumbles upon a creature.
Simple and distinctive.
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I am probably not part of the audience they are targeting. To me these video’s are way way too silly.
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What !!?
I would have thought for 51 updates something of significance might have happened … but no … just exponential growth in speculation and digression
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The sound of the Tracker really lacks something for sure, don’t know if it’s the DAC (and somehow the hardware), internally how the DSP is handled, or just the flat uninspiring filter it has. Or all of the above.
It didn’t help that most of the effects required destructive changes to the sample, even for simple things like EQ.
It didn’t entirely put me off the device, but one of the many issues which started to pile up
not gonna lie, the lil forest echo spirit got me too!
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I don’t know the Master 5-band EQ , bass boost , stereo enhancer, and the limiter/sidechain along with all the Tracker FX really makes the sound of the Tracker pretty good in my book. But I get that it’s subjective.
And the effects may be destructive, but only in the scope of the project?
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alright the little line dude is cool and has me wondering what the metaphor is, ya got me back on board polyend.
gps enabled tracker with pokemon go style real world sample hunting ARG lets go
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Looks interesting but its success will highly depend on its price. A steam deck is 400€ and can easily be turned into a sequencer/sampler. And it has a double mic…
I’m not a big fan of the lack of knobs, maybe the screen is touch sensitive but I’m not big on that either.
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I do not like to criticize a product that has not gone on sale; even one that just went on sale, but if the photo in the post is real, the tracker’s jogwheel has disappeared, which I think is the most important element to work with.
I have a tracker and I’m very happy with it, and I don’t know how it’s going to be possible to achieve the great workflow it has without the jogwheel.
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