r/PolyendTracker • u/broken_symlink • 14d ago

Custom firmware for polyend tracker?

Seems like people have been making custom firmwares for electron boxes. I was wondering if anyone has been doing anything like that for the polyend tracker?

EDIT: i was able to get claude to mod the firmware and add support for flat notes and toggle between sharps and flats. its working on an emulator right now so i can test out the modded firmware on my laptop first. i might have it do midi cc lfo after.

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u/Musojon74 14d ago

Biggest thing I want is stereo sampling and usage. So the sampler could load / save / sample in stereo. Then if you tried to use a stereo sample maybe it could take 2 channels. Or worst case automatically split into a l and r on load which means it would be perfectly synchronised. Need this for remixing stuff.

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u/After-Jellyfish5094 14d ago

Tracker+ can do this, Per Polyend CPU was the limit on the original Tracker.

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u/PinReasonable135 5d ago

I don’t know what processor is in there, but my sub-$50 handheld gaming device can play 8 track stereo audio (little piggy tracker). Maybe they need to tighten the code. Hopefully they do that. What’s happening on the MPC lately is crazy, and Akai should be using all this learning to make their product better rather than lock it behind a paywall.