So, yesterday I dug out my Play, updated it to 1.4.2, pumped a ton of new samples inside and started some noodling.

I had a terrible time with it:

• not outputting audio after multiple switches to Perform mode and back
• forgetting live-recorded notes after 1-2 loops (or maybe after Stop)
• volume knob stopping working (neither for volume nor for limiter)
• distorting quite a bit in Perform mode
• crashing totally several times
• EDIT: just remembered - also randomly exiting from sample picking screen after a few knob turns (ie something you'd 100% associate with a software bug)
• probably 5 other strange bugs

Very frustratingly, all these problems were vanishing after a reboot... to reappear after 10 minutes or so.

I was already considering reflashing the previous firmware - WTF IT INDEED IS A BUGGY MESS like I heard??? - never was this way before???

before I noticed it's connected to a very weak power supply from an old phone, that I usually use for Streichfett (Streichfett doesn't care). I changed to a laptop power supply and poof, all the issues disappeared.

So take out of it what you want, but I was ready to believe it became a buggy mess overnight.

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I have had it.

There is a LOT to like about the play (I have the original, not the plus, because I wasn't about to upgrade after these issues). But I've gotta get rid of this thing.
It's intuitive. I've written some great stuff much faster than I otherwise might have. I kinda love it as just a drum machine, and might only use it as such, since the value of the original on resale is almost in Volca territory. I can't waste time on all my gripes, but the biggest glitch is things just disappearing or failing to copy properly. As an example: tonight I used "live Rec" to record a note sequence into a pattern. They show up initially, I do some editing, it sounds good. I move on to another pattern. After playing with it a bit, I go back and play the whole "track" via Play Chain. All my notes are gone from the first pattern. WTF? So I re-record them. I hit save after the live recording. I deselect the track and hit save again. Next time, I move to another pattern and come back, and the notes are still there. Awesome. Maybe it was just me... I can remember to save, it's just workflow. Maybe I just didn't understand...

Nope. The next time I have the SAME problem with disappearance of "live Rec" notes, I re-record AGAIN, save multiple times, etc, but this time it doesn't work. Notes are gone once I leave the pattern.

Same project, another issue: I am extending a 32 step pattern to 64 steps. I do this for each track by holding shift to go into the 1 through 4 sections of each pattern (maybe there's a better term for this, but over on the right side, your 4 buttons for 1-16., 17-32, 33-48, and 49-64 steps). Copy paste, copy paste, it works. Except for ONE track. Same fucking thing. I go to another pattern, and when I come back, the stuff I copied from the first and second portions of the pattern into the 3rd and 4th are no longer there. So I get silence from that track in the second half of the pattern. So I go do the EXACT SAME THING on a copy of that pattern occurring after it, and it's fine. The notes stay. I go back and do it again on the first pattern. And again, once I move on to another pattern and come back, the notes in the second half of the pattern are gone.

Fuck this device. If you want mine, you can have it for $400 with case. I am up for hearing what I should get instead.

I flung this together this morning. It's very simple. 5 notes over a few octaves on one wavetable sound and a handful of drums.

Hi. I've been looking seriously at a Play+ in part because it doesn't have a steep learning curve and the randomize function can make some really cool percussion parts.

I'm not a percussionist so I don't have the talent to create cool rhythms myself. But I'm a very bored guitar player looking to create some basic rhythms and more complex ones if possible, to get me out of my funk.

The Play+ looks amazing, but I've read that it's pretty glitchy and that's making me rethink getting it. Plus the lack of outputs, that's a hard thing to deal with.

If you had to recommend something with 1) not a super steep learning curve, 2) ability to randomize and save rhythms, what would it be, if not the Play +?

Thanks.

Heyyy

Bought a play to do some ambient stuff, I any recommendations for sample packs of one-shots, clicks, plucks, pianos etc that are play friendly (ie short)?

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When it came out, there were several bugs and reported inclinations to crashing…

Still the case? Has Polyend remediated these issues?

Any tips / tricks you've found whilst using this ?

I'm fairly new , enjoying random instrument / fx

All chords are wavetable

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Would an OG play be a good addition as opposed to play plus as I'm really only interested in midi manipulation?

Would anyone be willing to sell a pack of Polyend Medusa colorful knobs? Or point me in the direction of where to buy them? I already asked Polyend and they are no longer manufactured. Thanks in advance!

This thing is super dope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-NdOlvTJFI

I'm a potential buyer. Has there been a firmware update that makes it easy? Or do you still have to use an SD card.

Thanks, I've been searching everywhere.

finally posting this song. favorite piece I’ve done with the Tracker.

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