My bass drum could be way better with a compressor/limiter that can actually really be usable or a drawing envelope. EXCEPT! Yes, except that after a few hours I already hit the wall of not having enough options/effects. From there I extract, slice and modify samples to create a drum-kit and some granular and wavetable synth, it's very cool. The embedded radio is an absolute a good idea! I challenged myself to make an entire song from a random spoken phrase. I confirm not having a touch screen isn't an issue at all since almost everything is easily accessible once you passed the learning stage which is very quick (about 5h for me with no background on sampling machines). Well, it's a tracker, and by itself it is very fun to play with! I am using v1.5.0 at the time of the report It is overall a nice machine, with (almost) everything you need. I'm having tons of fun with PT, and I don't see myself switching to anything else as a center piece of my music-making process. Not only it changed my workflow completely, provided me with new ideas and inspired me, it introduced me to a wonderful community of PT users, that is the most friendly, helpful and fun community I've seen so far. I'm very thankful for Polyend for making Tracker. Overall, you can definitely use PT as it is right now, but you have to work around some issues, which is also a bit annoying. With this being said, so far they were providing new features couple times a year, making it a much better product, as well as fixing some major bugs. Software-wise there are bugs, and while Polyend fixes them, they clearly don't have a huge staff, and their priorities were shifted towards developing new products, so bug fixing process is slow at best. Easy fix, with a step by step guide on youtube, but it's annoying. If you don't do it, the jogwheel keeps spinning on the shaft with values not changing, or changing randomly. In order to fix it you have to unscrew it and wipe the shaft from time to time, removing the extra lube. Hardware itself it great, except one big issue that a lot of users experience - excessive lubrication of a jogwheel. So, it takes time to learn, but it can sound good, so 5/5. I'd still export stems sometimes to further mix them in a DAW, but mostly I'm working towards mixing 100% in PT, and only mastering the final mix in a DAW before uploading it. Especially after additional master effects were added, such as Space, Bass Boost and a limiter. It has its quirks, you have to battle gain staging at times, you have to accept all samples are mono only (probably the biggest bummer for me initially), mixing can be challenging, but when you know how to use it properly, it can sound great. For what PT is, I'd say it's definitely 5/5.Īgain, keeping in mind what PT it, sound-wise it's good. Wavetable synth, granular synth, loads of step effects, reverb (huge thanks to Émilie Gillet from Mutable) and delay sends, loads of sample editing effects, etc. Compared to classic trackers, PT is loaded with features, both classic and modern ones. PT is built with a lot of limitations by design, so it's hard to compare with, let's say, Akai MPC, since they have very different philosophy. I wish there were more shortcuts to navigate longer patterns, but other than that handling-wise it's great, so 5/5. It takes time to learn it, but when muscle memory kicks in, everything falls into its place, and your ideas translate into music in seconds. It's not for everyone, but as soon as it clicks, if it clicks at all, tracking starts making so much sense that going back to piano roll feels like a cumbersome and pointless process. I've been using it for a year now, and 100% of tracks I've finished over the past year, I did on PT. It became my holy grail, and I've completely switched to using it for production, and I don't feel like there is a way back, at least in the observable future. Polyend Tracker changed everything about music-making for me. Includes USB power supply, USB-C cable, audio adapter and 16GB microSD card.MIDI input / output: 3.5 mm jack (including adapter to 5-pin DIN socket).
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