Wow I started with trackers as a kid, i never thought I would see a modern standalone one

Just spent three hours straight on this thing after an hour of practice last night and no prior tracker experience - this is amazing, super easy sequencing, an easy undo/redo feature (I'm looking at you Digitakt!) and so many unique features including fills and gorgeous sound output. This is a well built, luxurious sample/MIDI sequencer at an amazing price.

Oh my god, Pro Tracker throw back! This is a wet dream for us Amiga trackers from back then.

Yea, this goes to the "To buy"-list. 20+ years later, and trackers still feels more at home to me. :D Thanks for the demo.

This is a great escape from over designed vst instruments and over featured gear. This pushes you more into the song construction aspect of music making. Albeit there are a nice amount of unique tweaking options but in a world with too many options too get lost in it’s a welcomed concept for me personally.

Who still LOVE AMIGA? I do, with that tracker I just remember my first compositions on 1987!

A spot on review! My first tracker and I love it. Compared to my Blackbox, Akai live, Sp404, the simple 7” screen allows you to start creating patterns immediately. I run it in horizontal mode like any traditional sequencer Pros: - easy sequencing; buttons laid out well; easy sampling; It’s form factor, light, thin, rectangular allows sitting on a sofa music making. The buttons/pads are great! And unlike the above 3 samplers I hardly need to refer to the manual. A 10,000mA battery lasts long enough for a good working session; FM radio; It has character! Cons: - for auto-time stretching the other 3 win out, the tracker requires a fiddly FX setting - for gods sake why not put a lithium battery in it (sorry the tracker mini which does have battery, doesn’t have the pads, I won’t be getting that) - why no audio transfer over usb from laptop, and why no DAW integration like the SP404?! - why is nobody making skins for it?! I’m selling the Blackbox, it lacks character, has no pads, screen is too small I’m selling the akai as it’s just not portable enough, but it’s definitely way more powerful than the Tracker, and it’s Wi-Fi and Splice integration is superb; I’ve replaced it with an akai studio hooked up to my DAW for studio use I’m keeping the SP404 because it oozes character and for sampling/mangling it’s superior to the Tracker, but I don’t find it as easy to use, need to refer to manual too often The tracker goes in my rucksack for train and plane use ✈️ Cheers

I hope you do realise that every single piece of gear that I have acquired over the past two years was bought mainly because of your fantastic videos. Who needs a manual if we have you😊

Poly want a tracker?

As a Renoise user I'm very interested in this wow!!! Finally a tracker groovebox yes!!!

Thank you Ziv!

Glad they sent you one, their official videos that premiered yesterday left a lot of unanswered questions.

Trackers intimidated ever since I was a kid listening to chiptunes. Now that I understand how it works I’m realizing it’s the holy grail I’ve been looking for

Just got mine. I'm selling my MPC Live and will only be using this. Why? It's small, about the size of a piece of paper, but sturdy AF due to the metal case. It doesn't get hot on your lap or even warm after hours of use. There is no physical manual because they update the firmware so quick with new features. However, you don't really need it because the interface is so straightforward that you will learn everything you need to know within 3 hours of playing with it. You can also render selections to a sample now. This is an amazing workflow and don't be fooled by "the grid", you can absolutely record in realtime non-quantized timing. One more thing, to change a track name, go to the master section 2 screen, press the record button and press a button below the screen to edit a tracks name (not in the manual). Get one!

This video sold me a Tracker. I ordered in June 2020. It's due to arrive tomorrow: 9/24. I can hardly contain myself. I hope you feel just a fraction of my joy vicariously, loopop. Thank you.

Omigad. I was dreaming of having a standalone sunvox box. This is next level

Wow- this looks amazing! Renoise was my first DAW so it's right up my alley. I was shopping for a drum machine/ groovebox (circuit tracks, verselab, model samples), but this hidden gem has moved to the top of the list. Thanks for the great review!

I can foresee a new wave of jungle.

This is the most useful tutorial I have found, so far, on using the Tracker's basic functions. I wanted to make a track rather than a loop. I asked myself why I was making loops rather than a full track and realised that most software is focused on that approach. Ableton's shadow covers most of the electronic music production scene. I tried to learn it daily for 3 months or so. One day I realised that I just wasn't enjoying using it. I had never really got beyond that point anyway. I read about DAWless setups and that looked more enjoyable. I do not know anyone else who does this stuff, I don't live near a city with any user groups etc. I don't work with anyone who does this stuff. It's me and the internet. I bought books and RTFMs. However, primarily, I am a visual learner. I realised that the people who post videos on YT do so primarily to make money from their passion. Most of them are not trying to teach or if they are then they do not have any qualifications in that area. They are trying to grab your attention through the lens of the YT algorithm, over the noise of their competitors, a short attention span and ungrateful twats who only post negative comments about their hard work. I picked through these people's work. In my ignorance I greedily hoovered up every word. And that was where I had a problem. They began where their knowledge ended. My beginning, my knowledge ended in a completely different place. We had different spectacles on. Theirs showed a much different world to mine. I have journeyed back through time to a video of yours from 4 years ago on the Korg Electribe 2. It is great. I know you probably hate it because of the sound quality but that video speaks to me, right now. I completely understand where your head is at and what you are trying to tell me. I know this must seem rather incomprehensible, why do I put it like that? I don't know really, I just know that I learn by understanding the motivations of the teacher. What are they trying to teach me? Why are they teaching me that? What do they expect me to learn from this? How do they expect me to learn? What is their philosophy with regards to the information they are giving me? I need to understand these tools in a very black and white way at this point in my music making journey. Can I pick it up and enjoy learning to use it? How easy is it to use proficiently? We once had a conversation about workflow. You said to me that it is an individual thing. I felt that what you were trying to tell me is that you cannot capture the ethereal nature of a person's mindset when they make the music they make. Yet you have done that. You have started a series on it. I really appreciate that. I realise that it most certainly wasn't because of that conversation but it most certainly will be helpful to me one day.

Love love love. Have missed my amiga tracker since they died out in the mid 90s. Will buy this and show to my boy.

This looks awesome, definitely brings back memories! I was actually looking for a good MIDI sequencer, but found that most are limited to "one big loop" and don't have sections - or what you call patterns in a tracker. This one does more by producing sound itself too. Looks like a perfect companion. Thanks for your awesome review, it is so in-depth, calm and clear, actually a very good way to sell a product :)

Oh, and thank you Polyend for not using hex values! :D

Mate, you did it. Extremely impressive kit explained beautifully. It has to be mine.

OH MY GOD everything about that FILL feature is amazing!!

Very interesting instrument. Don't know if this type of sequencer is something for me, but I would love to try it out. Nice review by the way.

Request to loopop: I would love it if you highlighted the currently playing part in the list overview. The list is my favorite feature of your reviews, this would make it even better! cheers and thx for great content.

Reminds me of my first music program. A DOS based program calles FastTracker2 in the late 90s...

god damn you! now i need this piece of gear! hands down the best music gear channel on youtube!!! great video for a very interesting little piece of gear.

Tempo per step is really inspiring. Think it would be musically useful to also have step-length per step. Such a boss move when step sequencers have this feature!

It's a different feel, kind of cool, and the tapping of buttons sounds like computer keys giving this computer feel. It really makes one feel as though they're in some computer world programming music. It's a smooth looking thing, with a nice feel, but definitely for specific characters more so in the computer aspect.

Great vid, thanks man! The makers of this machine owe you a great deal of gratitude.

Delays can be faked with trackers, you just need to plop in some notes at increasingly lower velocity where you want them

Man oh man... that first Benn Jordan track is absolutely amazing. They all are...

That random bassline it generated is fire

Loopop has done it again. Excellent video!

I think I’ve watched this nearly 100 times, don’t have one yet, but soon I hope 🤞

memories of my Amiga, OctaMED and a action replay.

This thing is just what I was looking for!

Wow this is one of your best. Can't believe you covered all this thing does in less than an hour. VERY helpful.

new creativity booster! we will see the impact of this gear on many productions from now on.

ive been dreaming of one of these for many years, i never fully learned trackers but i always thought a hardware device makes alot of sense for the workflow - it would be really nice if this could export tracker format projects with all the samples in the file etc (.mod and .s3m for example) - i think it's a bit pricey in it's current state and the lack of stereo samples is disappointing, also it would be good if a lot more audio formats were supported, and also tracker music format importing or direct support for working with those files, they could easily leverage existing open libraries for such things; lastly i think the interface could use some improvement and more info could be shown on that screen - for example toggling different realtime readout displays (such as output levels of each track) in the background of the sequencer, or per-track waveform displays like many trackers do im glad someone finally decided to try making one of these and im sure alot could be added and improved just with firmware updates, thanks alot for the review and detailed demonstration!

This is incredible. Just got an Amiga 500 and now this pops up. HHUH

I got addicted to lsdj on the gameboy. This is the natural evolution of lsdj on the gameboy.

While I am waiting for Play to arrive (there has been a delay in shipping to UK) I got Tracker to mess around a bit. Tracker format is something I stared making music with so it is not unfamiliar concept , and I must say it is probably THE BEST way of writting certain types of electronic music. The way tracker behaves, how it sequences notes and in general, parameters, is a tool for all kinds of Glitch,"IDM" and such forms of music. Also, Trackers made a huge impact on mainstream genres and practically spawned Big Beat and stuff around it. So, while i plan to keep my "main" workflow - sequencing most of the hardware via Octatrack and/or Cubase, I am yet to see how will adding Play to Octatrack work (I assume it will be absolute bang), having tracker around is not just a "sketch book", but a super powerful tool to go with your main setup. And then, on some projects, use it as a main sequencer, once you feel confy enough.

Thank you very much for such a thorough overview! 😁🙏👊 As someone who embraces a sample-based workflow, I am really excited about this! Huge potential - Ordered!

My God. There is sooo much good music Gear out there. Don't even know what to pick anymore.

Fantastic work on this enormous video tutorial. Just got Tracker, this will be a very useful guide, as all your tutorials are. Just learned the basics in a few hours after unboxing, and already blowing me away how advanced, yet logical its laid out. Thanks for doing this.

Watching your videos is like going to the movies. Sometimes better.

Ooooooh been waiting for your take on this. Thanks as always

Buzz tracker was my jam back in the day.. very tempted by this one

I think this might be my favorite intro jam of yours.

How did I not know about this??? Wow!!! Just pre-ordered... Maybe I should name my first new project "thankful bolt"... So many good memories of using various trackers on Amiga... MED v1, NoiseTracker, ProTracker my main progression, with some experiments here and there...

Heavy nostalgia, throwing back to my days composing in .mod trackers and Jeskola Buzz. Only one killer feature i need to know about: master tempo change per step.

This is the interface I would have loved in overbridge to visualize what's happening inside all the Elektron boxes.

This thing is so much fun to experiment with. I didn’t think this unit would be as much fun as it is.

i can see this fitting in my workflow straight away

I love this channel

Dammit. Just when I think there's no more gear I need. This is a smart machine.

Wicked tutorial, thanks!! The “Machinedrum” track sounded awesome!! So glad I got in on the pre-order last night :)

Yet another superior review & demo! 🖒🖒 (BTW, the little groove with the chord stab that you used through most of the video definitely rates at least an 8/10 on the "Earworm Scale"!! lol)

YES ! was waiting for the review !!

Why is the fact it has a FM radio in it one of the most interesting features to me.

Wow, that's just lovely and looks like so much fun. Wish I had this right now during the coming weeks of isolation!

There's a serious competition in sequencing world. New and very hot stuff is coming out! Keystep Pro will be here soon also. Will you review Novation Launchpad Mk3?

You had me at 'Amiga Computers'...

Never used a tracker before but this looks soo sick! Great review… The second Benn Jordan track is so nice btw

Aaaaaand another great video from you that sold me on a machine. :) I don't thnik that the music hardware industry really appreciate enought what you are doing for them :) Thank you!

Christ dude, I'm looking around for MPCs and Elektron grooveboxes to save up for and now there's this...I'm dying

Octatrack, Deluge, MPC1: Polyend Tracker: Hold my big black knob.

Excellent review. Well structured, clear and precise.

You make great videos. Some of the best for seeing what gear can do.

Definitely naming my next album "thankful screw"

I would add the single 3.5mm stereo output to the list of cons. A couple of individual outputs (even if they were on minijacks) could have opened this device up to a lot more possibilities

How great is that? Brings me right back to my childhood. But wait! With today's gear available it makes totally sense. Cant wait to put my hands on one ...!

WOW!!! That perform mode is awesome!!!!!!!! !00% getting this! Its a lot cheaper than I thought it would be too

Octamed in a box! Just started watching, but it’s got to have tight timing !

Question: can you set a song playing in song mode then switch to perform mode and fiddle with effects etc over the top? Thanks for the great review.

Helpful video. One of the only weaknesses with the Tracker is the manual so this was very useful.

Thanks for this great overview - it definitely made the sale for me!

First trackers were released on Commodore 64 - For example Sound Monitor got out in 1986! Would be great to correct that :-)

Would love to see more of the "performance" part, and also the possibility to play patterns (tracks ?) of different lengths.

Really enjoy your style of presentation.

I need this. I can finally get my old tracks in glorious 16 bit

NoiseTracker / ProTracker...I hope it comes with ST-01 to ST-10 disks included :).

Hey @loopop! This thing looks amazing! I saw that there were options in the FX lanes for setting all of the notes to be set to a scale (Chromatic, Dorian, etc). One thing that wasn’t made clear from your video is whether or not the pads can be set to scales during note entry. Are the pads always in Chromatic scale, or can you change this to have all notes from the pads be in different musical scales as well? Thanks for another excellent review! You’re the best dude doing these. 👍

Superb walkthrought. Just preordered one. Fascinating device. This is like Excel for creating music ;)

If I can get past the learning curve this could get me back to my raw 'less is more' days when all I had was an Akai 950 and Cubase on an Atari ST🤔😏

I'm a tracker fanatic who has NEVER switched to a DAW since the Amiga days and I'm now using Renoise. I'm tripping balls right now seeing this wonderful machine. But why all the limitations I ask? Just allow as many samples as the memory allowed, mono or not. I could use hundreds of small samples in one mod and it could be under 1mb. I hope a firmware update would fix this.

Man, this video seems like the next best thing to a manual, which I don't see there is one for this device yet. I'd been thinking about the OP-Z, but if this Tracker offers more for the same cash, I should probably consider it instead.

Looks and sounds crazy... my dyslexia won’t allow me to own this. But look forward to hearing more great sounds.... hope you are healthy and safe.

I loved, and frequently miss using Fastracker. This looks awesome to me.

.... and 25 years waiting is over.

amazing instrument... i have so many samplers... but this one is really unique... and its reseanable from the price point

This is great. I hope more trackers like that get launched.

I wouldn't mind having some Polyend gear. I've heard a few things about people not being happy with the Tracker, but I think it looks fun and inspiring. I think I'm going to get some Elektron Digi stuff first, and then get this, and the Play. I'm not rich, so it's going to be a while, but I try to buy something nice to add to my collection, every 2 months or so. There's a lot of inspiring things, just by watching the videos about the Digi's and the Polyend stuff. I think their features would suit my needs.

How is the text printed onto the buttons? I feel like those arrow keys are going to get a lot of use.

It's hardware-Renoise! Love it!

Just purchased Pete Cannon Version, really looking forward to making tracks on the polyend

Omg, want it! Really good digitakt's alternativ! thx for review!

Very cool rundown. Waiting to see how this stacks up against the nerdseq portable. Crazy that trackers are coming back in this easy. Love the form factor, and the portability but worried about the sampling and media mgmt.