Polyend Tracker Standalone Audio Workstation
Polyend Tracker is a unique take on a retro form factor aimed at artists who break patterns on a daily basis. Don't let the classic look fool you: Tracker is equipped with powerful modern functionality, effects and the forward-thinking creative tricks that Polyend brings to all of its highly regarded instruments.
Polyend Tracker is an innovative, inspiring and immediate tool for making music. It functions as a sampler, a synthesizer and is equipped with a powerful and creative sequencer. Tracker has a large screen, ergonomic keyboard and a big encoder knob for fast and easy navigation. With bi-directional MIDI control it plays nice with other gear. It's also standalone and portable – everything you need to produce music anywhere you are.
- Large screen, ergonomic keyboard and a big main encoder for fast and easy navigation
- Standalone and portable – everything you need to produce an album wherever you are
- Sampler, wavetable and granular synthesizer, FM radio for limitless inspiration
- Powerful step sequencer and song arranger for finishing your piece in a flash
- Performance mode lets you creatively break, mangle and augment your patterns when playing live Bi-directional MIDI to play with other software and hardware
Tracker incorporates the quintessential characteristics of a classic tracker. The vertical timeline, the powerful sequencer and the mechanical keyboard combined with a newly designed input interface enable you to make and perform your music in a new and intuitive way. After a quick glance and a few minutes with the Tracker interface, you'll soon realize the array of tools that are at your fingertips.
Polyend Tracker is slick, light and portable. It also goes easy on energy consumption so you can use it with any USB power source. Its sturdy and compact form factor makes it a great companion for music creation wherever and whenever you feel like it, no matter if you're in your studio, on the run or at a gig.
Tracker works great with other instruments too. Thanks to its bi-directional MIDI implementation you can use it to sequence and control external gear. It can also be used as a sound module controlled by any external MIDI software or hardware devices.
Tracker features an 8-track sequencer. Each project you create can hold 255 patterns with up to 128 steps each. Every step on each track has dedicated slots for inserting notes, instruments, and two effects slots.
Use song mode to arrange different patterns together to create a song, or use perform mode to mangle, remix and apply global effects parameters to individual tracks in your patterns.
Every Tracker project can be loaded with up to 48 sample-based instruments that can be played on any step in each of the eight tracks. Load your WAV files, record from the line or mic inputs or sample from the airwaves using the onboard FM radio. Each individual instrument gives you control over parameters including volume, tuning, panning, rilters, reverb send, ADSRs and LFOs to craft a sound from any sample.
Choose among seven playback types for each instrument: 1-Shot, Forward Loop, Backward Loop, Pingpong Loop, Slice, Wavetable and Granular Synthesizer.
Tracker can save individual instruments with all their settings, including envelopes, automations, filter, effects and other parameter settings, so that you can import them into other projects you're working on. You can even share instruments with other users and download new instruments that Polyend and others are creating.
Use the sample editor to alter and render new samples from your existing ones right on board the unit. You can crop and reverse sections of samples and apply effects like delay, flanger, chorus, compression and limiting.
Full-blown wavetable synthesis with variable table length makes it compatible with the most popular standards, including Ableton Wave and Serum.
Choose the granular synthesizer engine to create out-of-this-world sounds and textures. You'll have all the tools you need to craft something new and interesting out of your tired old samples.
Tracker allows you to manually slice your samples or use Tracker's auto-slice feature to cut up your samples into up to 48 slices. Play individual slices with the grid controller. You can also choose to automate precisely – or randomly – which slice plays on a per-step basis.
- Vertical scrolling timeline allows for streamlined access to your tracks
- Each project holds 255 patterns with up to 128 steps each
- 8 tracks per pattern
- Each track has note, instrument and two effects parameter locks per step
- Fill function automatically fills steps, notes, instruments and effects data, based on conditions you set
- Over 20 'fill FX' types to choose from, including MIDI CC and Program Change values
- Invert function allows you to flip whole tracks or selected steps
- Step function allows you to add notes, instruments and effects in increments of 1-32 steps
- Use Tracker's 48 pads to play your samples, slices and the synthesizer engines
- Customize the pad layout to play scales
- Use the grid to choose notes, effects or patterns
- Record your patterns live with the grid
- Use the grid to trigger performance options like step repeater, pattern play modes, reverse playback, panning, filter cutoff, etc.
| SKU | PLY-TRCK |
| Vendor | Polyend |
| Analog Digital | Digital |
| Built In Speakers | No |
| Included From Manufacturer |
16GB micro SD card Micro SD to USB-A adapter 1/8" to 5-pin MIDI adapter 1/8" stereo to dual 1/4" adapter USB-C cable USB-A power adapter Dust cloth |
| Midi | In, Out, and USB |
| Mono Poly | Polyphonic |
| MPN | PLY-TRCK |
| Onboard Controllers | 48-button pad grid Large main data entry encoder |
| Effects | Performance effects including reverb, delay and multi-mode filter Sample processing effects including amplifier, overdrive, delay, bit crusher, chorus, flanger, EQ, limiter, compressor |
| Audio Inputs | 1/8" stereo line input 1/8" mic input |
| Audio Outputs | 1/8" stereo main/headphone output |
| Product Weight | 2.65 lb |
| Sampling | Built-in sample recorder and editor Import samples via SD card |
| Sequencer | 8 tracks and 128 steps per pattern 255 patterns per project |
| USB Port (to Host) | MIDI |
| Voices of Polyphony | 8 |
| Width | 11.02" |
| Depth | 8.15" |
| Height | 1.3" |
Polyend warrants this product, to the original owner, to be free of defects in materials or construction for one year from the date of purchase. Proof of purchase is necessary when a warranty claim is processed. Malfunctions resulting from improper power supply voltages, abuse of the product or any other causes determined by Polyend to be the fault of the user won't get covered by this warranty (standard services rates will be applied). All defective products will be replaced or repaired at the discretion of Polyend. Products must be returned directly to Polyend with the customer paying the shipping cost. Polyend implies and accepts no responsibility for harm to a person or apparatus through the operation of this product. Please go to the Polyend website in order to start a return-to-manufacturer authorization or for any other related inquiries.
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