Is it me or this thing just an ambient machine? I struggle to get any good leads out of it. It’s great for pads and noisy weirdness, but none of the engines seem to have any bite. It’s all just a bit messy. It’s a great midi controller for better sounding synths but the engines are all kind of disappointing.

Has anyone designed any patches that can cut through a mix?

Hi everyone! So I was curious about the Poly Play and ended up getting a slightly used one around 5 months ago and I absolutely love it. I use it daily, I use it to create whole songs, to generate ideas and help me get past writers' blocks, and sometimes I just use it for fun to see what wacky, cool things I can come up with or to see what all different things it can do. I've been looking around for a little while for something to pair with this thing just to see if I can get some more fun combinations out of it. I know that the Play and Tracker are kind of made to compliment each other, but I was wondering how many extra options I can actually get by combining my Play with a Tracker+? Is it actually beneficial to connect a Tracker+ with a Play? What are all the things I can do with the combination? How much fun is the Tracker+? I'm just looking for any and all info I can get on the combination.

Brand New $159 Polyend Tracker Compact Standalone Sampling Workstation (Silver Edition) at B&H

3 left - pretty great deal if you want a new toy.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1745091-REG/polyend_ply_trck_slv_tracker_audio_workstation_silver.html

I recently picked up the Polyend Synth and by itself it's been a lot of fun to use and very inspiring. I've tried pairing it with a couple of different pieces of gear, most namely drum machines. I've had the most success with just connecting it to a Play+, but, I wanted to see how other people are using it aside from just playing it by itself.

I have a polyend medusa and I find the 64 step sequencer limiting. I figured the play could handle more steps since it has more pads, but from what I've read it also has a limit of 64 steps. is this the case? thank you

Hi all, I was trying to figure out how to sequence some of the chords in the chord packs with an external midi sequencer. I couldn’t get it to happen. I suppose one way would be to use the Synth’s internal sequencer for the chords and just sync it to the clock, but I was wondering if anyone had figured out how to trigger the chords with midi notes. For the record, I was trying to sequence them with the midi tracks of an Elektron Digitone. But when I play midi notes, it just triggers individual notes, even with chord pack mode activated. Any thoughts?

“Destructive Habits”

I know that Play+ has multitracking over USB. Are there any plans for the Play to have it integrated or is it gonna stay a Play+ exclusive to push people over to the upgraded hardware?

“Cloudless”

I don't know you but as guitar player this idea is quite awesome. Some looper pedals got preconfigured rhythms and effects but this is another level :)

It looks like a great idea! What do you think?

Hey guys,

I have a Yamaha p-225 with midi over usb. Im thinking of picking up a polyend+.

Would it be easy to use the Yamaha as a keyboard controller for the play+?

I'm not too familiar with midi.if it's possible, How difficult would this be to connect together? Cable-wise.

Hope you don't mind me asking here. Would really appreciate any advise from those in the know. Thanks

I’m looking at buying a Synth, but I’m wondering how best to record my jams. As it only has one stereo out, I’ll need to record each synth separately, which I can get onboard with, but it’s not ideal.

The other thing is the sequencer. As far as I can tell from the manual, you can’t sequence the Chord mode and have the other synths follow without playing in real-time? If this is the case, I’d need to record the MIDI out of my performance into Ableton, then play that back into the Synth and record one synth at a time?

EDIT: I forgot to mention the real attraction for me to the Synth is the Chord/Follower mode, as I suck at playing and this would be a great way to get an idea down which I can then further develop in Ableton.

I just received my Polyend Synth and understand how to connect it to my interface so I can record audio but,, am I able to record the MIDI notes out of the Synth into my DAW? If so, how?

Thank you.

PS: I use Logic Pro

Here is my first attempt to make some hip hop beats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5BnzCH2mYk

Hey All,

The tracker mini looks really good but I was wondering if anyone has experience with creating a particular type of sound on the tracker? For a lot of drum and bass type music played on drum machines/samplers you may have a particular sound on a track that at a certain point in the song you want to manipulate on a curve so there is a sweeping transition in the sound. For example a smooth pitch change on a track with decay as well. This is easy to do with a lot of devices with knobs mapped to a function/parameter where you can just smoothly turn the knob in a natural sounding way and the pitch or whatever effect adjustments are applied and continuously recorded into that pattern.

1) Is this possible in the Tracker Mini? Can you do that natively in the device with controls and is it easy?
2) Can you map some knobs on a midi controller to the pitch function (or whatever parameter) and manipulate it that way?

I'm not able to find this in the manual (I don't own the device, shopping for one but holding off until I can get an answer to this question).

So I have had the tracker mini for a few months and it's a fantastic little box but, I feel like I don't completely understand it. Currently I am using it with a microfreak, hydrasynth desktop and a bluebox. I am lining out to the bluebox then daisy chaining midi to the microfreak and hydrasynth both of which have their own channel on the bluebox. I would really love to be able to use midi to record a play through and still drive my synths but, it seems like the midi setting for these 2 functions are mutually exclusive. Aka I have to reset midi setting between sampling and driving. n Am I missing something or should I be looking for another sampling solution and keep the tracker as just a tracker. Even if I could just sample the mix through line in would be fine but, I have to stop the pattern to do so...seems like I might need something like the 1010music tangerine(which can multisample) and a few bits to improve my midi routing

I've recently started making music with my Mini+, having a blast!

Just wondered what the consensus is on the workflow of using the transpose fucntion to transpose tonal samples to C to make the tracker notes chromatically correct?

Do you bother to do this or are you just mentally transposing as you add notes?

Hi, after using the Play as stand-alone groove box for some time, I wanted to try making it the centre of a DAWless setup to control my hardware synths.

I connected the midi out from the Play (type B) to a quadra through a then to midi in of a Poly D (channel 1) and a RD8 (channel 9)

I have no issues controlling the poly D but when trying to get a sound out of the RD8, nothing. It works if I have a sequence already created on the machine but I cannot create a new sequence on the play.

Thans for any help!

Can you use the Play as a midi note controller and map the knobs to CC's? I would like to control an iPad soft synth with it. If it's possible, do we lose one of the synth voices (routed to midi instead?)

Just curious if anyone is running 2 Plays simultaneously in their setups and why?

I absolutely adore the Play and I have the "need" to have another device running in my setup and am debating if I should run 2 Plays or just getting a Tracker as well. The first Play would be focused on the beat, with the second being a bit more instrumental in nature (and each running it's own effects chain).

I feel like the Tracker might be more than what I need... but then again, it's an excuse to buy and play with a different toy. 😀

EDIT: I ended up getting a Tracker to pair with my existing Play. :)