![]() Some users have already tested the emulator with. ![]() Includes an NES game emulator, as a nod to the history of trackers. because it doesn't force you to work with virtual knobs that turn the opposite direction of your finger swipe or other silliness associated with virtual knobs. It also has more responsive UI on IOS than the majority of other softsynths, DAWs, etc. It can even record a linear sequence - meaning it'll keep recording MIDI as long as you keep playing - unlike most other pattern sequencers, which require you to set a pattern length before you can record. SunVox is mature, lightweight on CPU, and more powerful than a lot of other MIDI sequencers on IOS. SunVox is free for desktop computers and $6 for IOS/Android. I don't have Renoise experience myself, but I've played with SunVox so that's why i see some possibilities for myself. OTOH, you waste less time moving a mouse around and the info you may want to see is more immediately viewable. So on the one hand, trackers don't look as pretty as Ableton Live, colored pad grids, etc. I guess for Ricky, having those hardware buttons with nice labeling makes a big enough difference over the standard QWERTY keyboard historically used for trackers. In his video, RickyTinez says his buddy the Renoise expert tried for years to sell him on Renoise but he could never get on with the Renoise UI. The people who are most enthusiastic about Polyend Tracker are the ones with previous experience in Renoise or other tracker software. Most people who buy this thing will probably load it with the usual - samples from Roland 808 and 909 drum machines, and so on - which, again, is totally fine. ![]() Most of the time the samples I work with on the OT are either recorded in realtime from my violin or guitar playing. I do have some 3rd party sample libraries in the OT, but they're samples of circuit bent noisemakers and Buchla synths. The majority of people who buy the Tracker are going to use it like Ricky, which is fine - nothing wrong with that - or just make the stereotypical chiptune music, which is also fine. I chose to start the thread with his video instead of Ricky Tinez because I thought he's using it in a way that I think would be closer to how I'd use it. Seems like a lot of the regulars here are guitarists who like to cross over into electronic music making ear, so I'm not surprised people are focusing more on Knobs - who has an established reputation for demoing mostly pedals - than on Polyend Tracker. It's amazing that no matter the pedal or gear he’s given he manages to turn out the same musical product. He’s branching out into synths and samplers b/c he’s on that endless content generation treadmill and he’s got to feed the beast. I get the feeling that this is just the latest thing to review now that he’s kind of run out of ideas for pedal reviews. “He I am taking my theme loop and using the Tracker to automate and then generate the same sound you’ve already heard me create with a pedal in almost every video I’ve made”. He’s not a synth guy, and it shows in the review. With that in mind it makes no sense to me he’s reviewing the Polyend Tracker. Knobs has convinced many of us that you don’t have to buy a pedal for a specific reason, but instead buy a pedal for a “feeling” or a “vibe” as opposed to it’s actual application. Or am I just going to sit around on a Sunday, play a chord, twiddle the knobs, play some more, and then put it away again and never use it again because it’s not made for songwriting or performance? The tail is wagging the dog.īut I’m always wondering can I write a song with it? The Blooper is his high point, a pedal made by a content creator for making the exact kind of non-specific music he makes in his pedal demos. Instead it’s all about making a sound come out of every device and how cool that sound might be. He never addresses what something can do for an active musician, ie someone who is writing/performing/recording. Love the job he does, love the art and approach to his videos but I always stop and ask how/where does this device apply to what I need?
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