Sampling the Radio on a Polyend Tracker // Just wanna Jam on this thing.
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I've been having a lot of fun on the tracker lately. It's def a weird piece of gear that i randomly use but when i do, i go to town on it. Its such a fun and refreshing way to make music. Weirdly serves as a way for me to fix writers block by making music.. That make sense?
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00:00 The tracker idea
01:32 Choosing Samples
02:20 Building the song
06:05 Favorite way to make hi hats and randomize textures
10:55 Sampling the Radio Technique
16:21 My Tracker Song Mode Workflow
17:10 Sampling the Radio part 2
20:20 Final Thoughts
21:21 Tracker Jam
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@MMIStudios 3 жыл бұрын
I started making tracks in Impulse Tracker starting back in 96 and stuck with it for a long time but started to drift into modern DAWs by about 2k2… when this thing came out it was like going back to those young days as a kid discovering the fun of making music all over again. I love my Polyend Tracker, my favorite piece in my studio atm.
@UncleBoogieRF 3 жыл бұрын
Protracker was my start. On the Amiga. This device looks amazing. Wish I could afford one.
@jeremyfox7599 2 жыл бұрын
SAME!!
@gordonfinne1437 3 жыл бұрын
Loving the ”stank face“ @15:35. That’s a sure fire sign that a track is kicking
@yourcitysleeps 3 ай бұрын
I was about to say lol
@mafoomusic8126 3 жыл бұрын
Without fail when I watch your videos I always end up being inspired to start working on some music. The genuine enthusiasm is awesome!
@DJ_TideWave 3 жыл бұрын
This screen and the way it sequence takes me back to Fast Tracker 2 for DOS back in the early 90s. 😊
@sirsynth225 3 жыл бұрын
The short "beat&synth" at 15:30 fragment is insanely good!!! With the voice and other radio sample it is still very good (and the phrase "get connected" fits indeed). Your song creation power on a device you claim not knowing so well show here is inspiring. Respect!
@GradyNickel 3 жыл бұрын
At 7:36 or so, the first column on Fill indicates where the fill is gonna go. So you were trying to tell it to fill wherever there was an FX but there weren't any FX on the track yet. For example, if you picked No Note, it would fill wherever there wasn't a note.
@stephennapolitano 3 жыл бұрын
Single cycle waveforms on this thing are a blast too. Set playback to forward loop and away you go.
@JDvirt Жыл бұрын
Dude when you pointed at the camera and said "Yes - Get Connected" I had a good laugh, I was like fkn GOLD. You made me want to get one of these.
@feluxmusic3751 3 жыл бұрын
15:34 made my day 😂 just amazing again !!!
@dg9576 2 жыл бұрын
15:40 your face..thats the white eyed love groove. Great vid
@arcologies 3 жыл бұрын
Great video, loved it! Tracker is a gamechanger ❤️ I loved the get connected sample too lol, got some major early 2000s broadband internet advertising vibes
@jasonfnorth 2 жыл бұрын
Doooooddddddd I just fell in love and bought one. LOVE YOUR VIDEOS! You are such a blessing to the audio community. And shoutout to the Polyend geniuses! 🙏
@mwhitelow9312 Жыл бұрын
I’ve always loved to sample off of the radio with the OP-1, so I can imagine it’s super fun on the PT too
@donaldferguson7777 11 ай бұрын
"oh, each....sure" lol that was funny dude. happens to me all the time tracing my steps back to a mistake
@bloodyproduce 3 жыл бұрын
For all of us that grew up using Fast Tracker 2
@smacksalad 3 жыл бұрын
Always one of the best parts of a Saturday. Thanks for the video :)
@RickyTinez 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for rolling through :)
@yzimsx 3 жыл бұрын
For me the most important thing with trackers is the semi-realtime note entry, where I can enter the melodies, basslines and rhythms I have in my head at my own pace, alternating between note and empty/silence with arrow down key or delete or whatever. It's like recording, but without actually recording. I control the pace.
@KimStennabbCaesar 2 жыл бұрын
Nice way of putting it. I've been using a lot of different trackers through the years, and it's a completely different way of working (and thinking), especially with melodies.
@LaymensLament 3 жыл бұрын
the random name generator is a really nice touch
@Keilnoth Жыл бұрын
You should totally try the Perform mode. It's the best thing on the tracker. Just create 2 patterns and mix and match them in Perform and add variations to selected tracks.
@gplume1099 3 жыл бұрын
15:34: best moment on this channel for me, we all agree on this as apparently, Thank You for all the sharing Enrique!
@GEEZEE16 2 жыл бұрын
fuckin lo key meme.
@Demigrancio 2 жыл бұрын
It's been a long time since I've laughed so much with a video, I felt the same as Ricky.
@RogerioCRibeiro 2 жыл бұрын
AGREED! You rock Ricky!
@tuunbass 3 жыл бұрын
I love my Tracker so much, it's such a cool bit of kit
@JamesRamboPearce 3 жыл бұрын
The tracker is such a winner, I love it!
@zoltn 3 жыл бұрын
Synth sample at the start sounded like Justice. Good stuff dude.
@bjamiork 3 жыл бұрын
15:34 THAT'S what I was waiting for XD
@rrrobart9 3 жыл бұрын
Yo! Loved this! Now I want a tracker again. That radio sampling is just too cool.
@TriangleWaveRecords 2 жыл бұрын
Too soon, too far... you're in deep! hahaha That "Get Connected" sample straight up sounds like a Mr. Oizo sample
@afk4lyf 3 жыл бұрын
"I have yet to make a full song on this thing" I finally feel like I'm not alone. Unfinished jams rejoice!
@prototype9000 2 жыл бұрын
Like 95% of the users on youtube havent made a complete song
@rorz999 2 жыл бұрын
@@prototype9000 that phenomenon isn't unique to the tracker. It has everything to do with the self-discipline.of the person using it
@ryannolan3581 3 жыл бұрын
I've been sampling from 91.5 fm in LA. Nice classical music to sample from .
@P1NMON3Y 2 жыл бұрын
@i.syntaxerror 2 жыл бұрын
Probably the best showcase of Tracker in whole life of this instrument. I'd like to see an opinion of Dr Mix about it.
@oulivier 2 жыл бұрын
The final part in the end of the video 🤘🏻😾
@mcshafty1 3 жыл бұрын
That pitching of the hihat sample at 4min sounds awesome. Cool man
@UncleBoogieRF 3 жыл бұрын
That machine is amazing. Hugely expensive for this poor boy but wow that’s fun. This may be my favourite video you’ve done in quite a while. Get connected!
@akirathedon 3 жыл бұрын
Hardest wub since Azido Da Bass 😤
@soundsofsynth 3 жыл бұрын
This looks awesome Ricky. ♥️🤘🎹
@syedali2943 3 жыл бұрын
I've totally got a love/hate thing with the Polyend Tracker. It can be so much fun using it, and it can do things no other piece of gear I own does BUT the crappy jog wheel, crappy file management and other quirks can get to me. I sold one, then ended up buying the Pete Cannon version 😂 I've kinda accepted my issues with the Tracker, and try to keep focus on the unique things it can do. Being able to sequence drum lines using the Euclidean fills is immense, still blows my mind sometimes how quickly I can put together dope sounding drum lines. I especially love how it sequences kicks in a way I never would. Got a track from scratch video on my channel which gives you an idea of how I use it. Also I love sampling from the radio, although it's usually the static 😋
@natura808 2 жыл бұрын
Did they fixed midi - audio latency? I’ll buy it back next minute if they did.
@treesurgeon2441 2 жыл бұрын
Does it do AM?
@madguy228 3 жыл бұрын
bought one of these a couple of weeks ago, incredible piece of gear
@syedali2943 3 жыл бұрын
just be careful with that jog wheel 😂
@madguy228 3 жыл бұрын
@@syedali2943 oh man i read it could fail but i’m assuming it’s likely to fail then?
@syedali2943 3 жыл бұрын
@@madguy228 well it's already happened to quite a few people on forums that I've read. Also the manual talks a few times about the jog wheel and how you have to be careful with it, and not apply any downward pressure on the wheel. Akso kinda puts the blame on the user if it breaks which I think is shady. I did see someone on modwiggler talk about repairing theirs with a better quality wheel though, so guess that'll be our lives in the future when our wheels break 😂
@madguy228 3 жыл бұрын
@@syedali2943 yeah i saw that i the manual which made me a bit worried
@syedali2943 3 жыл бұрын
@@madguy228 same, and how fragile it feels sometimes when turning it!
@DJ_TideWave 3 жыл бұрын
I love this! I love your content and your channel. You are amazing and very talented. 😊
@xn-triq7607 Жыл бұрын
I bought it, sold it, regretted it, and bought it again! It's one of those pieces of kit that causes you to think outside the box and inspires creativity like no other device, this paired with the Roland 707 or Akai MPC is just ridiculously powerful, there's literally nothing else you need for endless creativity with professional sounding end results, I never thought I'd be able to completely eliminate my CPU & DAW, but the past few year's have delivered so many standalone unit's and affordable hardware groove boxes, it's so hard to choose what to keep and what to sell 🤷🏾♂️ but I definitely won't be getting rid of this again, my little studio felt empty without it.
@bahutu802 2 жыл бұрын
It's so intriguing... a few hours before now I didn't really know trackers even exist and I was looking for a very intuitive groove box like the Circuit Tracks. Now, having seen a few Tracker videos, I think a tracker is the way to go for me... which is really paradoxical because trackers are like the absolute opposite when talking about a smooth intuitive workflow. What I discovered is that that kind of tracker would give me the fine-granularity which I always missed on the MPC for example. I mean, you can do a lot of that stuff in Step Edit mode on the MPC, but the Tracker interface makes it so much easier and then in a way again very intuitive in its own way (combined with all the shortcuts like fill, randomization and so on). And I guess with trackers one might be able to do things which are almost impossible on a 'normal' groovebox, like editing all those parameters of single steps, cutting off notes / samples exactly where I intent etc... By the way: As I understand you can disable to record micro-timing in the record options, so all notes will quantized by default.
@7177YT 3 жыл бұрын
Super inspiring! Thank you! You might wanna get the current beta firmware, lots of bugfixes and they added an arp. (: Its love amd frustration with me and this thing, but its deep enough to keep my interest kindled.
@robert__ 3 жыл бұрын
that synth/bassline you made is too fire
@joelkulesha8284 3 жыл бұрын
The first video or so I saw of you with this I really thought it would be out of your studio in a week or two. So surprised to see it's still there! You seem like someone who really loves it. You just seem very frustrated by some things with it. I hope polyend makes a tracker 2.0 and consults people like you who have a "love don't use" relationship with it lol.
@zadtheinhaler 2 жыл бұрын
I'm gonna go broke watching videos like this. I got a WaveState a few weeks ago, and now I'm looking at old Maschine Studios and now this. Doomed, I am.
@danielcaetano7979 3 жыл бұрын
man! when that low pass kicked in on 15:34 I did the same face you did!
@schlapbe 3 жыл бұрын
oh yeah! 17:27 sounds so much like AKUFEN! I love your channel, sir!
@Superjenson 2 жыл бұрын
Around 15:35 Ricky is almost as excited as if he was using PRO LEVEL CHORDS 😄
@NegHead 3 жыл бұрын
I've had so much fun working with the tracker, it's such a deep instrument
@ScottAdair 3 жыл бұрын
Wow, this really reminds me of Fast Tracker and Buzz.... takes me back.
@MikkelGrumBovin 3 жыл бұрын
Youre so CRAZY fast - "Tricky Ricky". Insane ! ;-)
@64north20west 3 жыл бұрын
This video makes me want to consider this over the elektron digitakt based on what you can do with samples. Ricky knows he is cutting masterpieces effortlessly, so Saludos!
@Tyetheberious 2 жыл бұрын
Well, you can just mangle samples on the DT, that it its specialty.
@technostylist420 3 жыл бұрын
absolutely sick jam on this one holy shit
@wetwater90 2 ай бұрын
This looks like so much fun.
@FoundationStepper 3 жыл бұрын
enjoyed every minute. thanks
@vgaportauthority9932 3 жыл бұрын
I've been craving one of these since before they were released.. Just so much other stuff I needed to buy.. Some day... Some day it will be mine.
@johansmolinski 3 жыл бұрын
Your most inspiring videos of those I've seen. I recognize the love, don't use relationship with this thing. :) I think what you do here is where the Tracker shines. Sample, mess, jam, repeat. Now, where did I put my charger?
@TheAndroidBishop 3 жыл бұрын
when you select "fx" with the fill menu it means it's going to apply the fill to every slot you already have an fx parameter set. If there aren't any fx set on the track it won't fill anything. It's hard to remember but the base fill menu is stating what events to apply the fill to, not what parameters you want to affect. If you select "note" it would only apply the fill to slots that have a note set on it, but the fill can affect fx or instrument or anything else.
@MikeFlex 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the explanation 💯
@jeremyfox7599 2 жыл бұрын
Ricky Tinez is a legend and we love him.
@neb2612 Жыл бұрын
Looks like lots of fun
@Randuski 3 жыл бұрын
This thing is the coolest god damn unit. But damn i hate trackers. But like, the keyboard keys, the radio, the auto naming 😂 so many incredible ideas. I honestly want them to make a different kinda unit, but like the same. Also, when you got that synth sound from the radio, and then shortened it up, we all had the same stank face. Like daaaaamn hahaha
@rorz999 2 жыл бұрын
"I honestly want them to make a different kinda unit, but like the same" U wot m8?
@Randuski 2 жыл бұрын
@@rorz999 yea it doesn't make sense
@beepboop4846 3 жыл бұрын
These sponsor cutaways are awesome
@MikeFlex 2 жыл бұрын
Your videos sold me! Most fun and inspiring lil thang I've ever purchased. I found one on Reverb for $500, it arrived with a ding in the bottom left corner...definitely got dropped...but no worries cause it's built like a damn tank. I'm immediately addicted. Did you see it can load OG Nintendo ROMS?!
@kvmoore1 2 жыл бұрын
Nice. This is the first time I've ever seen anyone actually use one of these things. It actually looks pretty cool. I like the layout of the hardware and the calculator-click buttons look solid. Of course, I wouldn't be sure about the jog wheel unless I actually touch one for myself. However the hardware LOOKS well built like it would last for years.. The workflow does look like it will be a steep learning curve and take some getting use to, coming from an MPC background. However, I'm pretty sure it would be a very fast machine to work with once you've gotten familiar with it. The thing that impresses me the most is how quick and easy it is to sample from the radio. Also, that big screen is lovely. The waveform display in the sample editor is so clear and detailed that it reminds me of Adobe Audition. Overall, it definitely looks like a nice piece of gear that can be a great source of inspiration for new ideas. With that said, if I wanna sample from the radio, then I just need to hook a radio to my MPC One and go to town. Besides that, I don't think there is anything else the Polyend Tracker can do that I can't achieve already with any of the new MPCs I already have. Yeah, I know, trying to curve my GAS for it, Lol. Funny, but true. The spending money part is NOT funny when it's not necessary. Ok, I'm trying HARD to convince myself not to even think about buying one of these BECAUSE I DON'T NEED IT!!!!!! but it sure looks nice! Great video!
@daveschroeter 3 жыл бұрын
It dawned on me the biggest thing I learn from you isn't how to use hardware but how to move past the 'eh' and follow the groove
@rorz999 2 жыл бұрын
I dunno brah I think his videos and his music would benefit from actually learning to use his gear properly lol. It was kinda painful watching this because he really doesn't know his way around the instrument
@daveschroeter 2 жыл бұрын
@@rorz999 I hope dragging the legendary Ricky Tinez helps ease your buyer's remorse.
@badhombre2484 3 жыл бұрын
time to pick the tracker back up.... THANK YOU RICKY!
@teabreakbeats 3 жыл бұрын
There's something satisfying about pressing buttons rather than a touchscreen. Might pick one of these up on payday
@tonypatino3156 3 жыл бұрын
Anything I own with a touchscreen can also be controlled by buttons and encoders.
@michaels5166 2 жыл бұрын
just ordered mine..cannot wait..
@kollagebeats 3 жыл бұрын
I have always had a similar problem as you with all of my MPCs ever. Banging loops, but could never “finish” or create a song directly on it. I’m similar to you with the Tracker, but I tend to create additional couple parts outside of the main loop (hook, bridge, change-up), and then export to Live.
@cold_fashioned 3 жыл бұрын
Awesome stuff, homie
@SS-hz4jo 11 ай бұрын
This video makes me consider getting a polyend. Thank you.
@Polyend 3 жыл бұрын
Nice groove there! :)
@SynthAddict 3 жыл бұрын
nice work, looks like fun damn you for creating GAS for yet another device :-)
@aidan4852 3 жыл бұрын
Use mine to sequence and chop all the time. Love it
@IhorMedia 2 жыл бұрын
15:22 "and if I go back..." and then it slaps so good!
@koboss_ 2 жыл бұрын
man... those thumbnails are amazing!!!
@GransanOficial 3 жыл бұрын
It is like the Impulse tracker in the 90s
@yocatbus 3 жыл бұрын
Hahaha the "face of filth". You know shits good when it's got you pulling that face...
@jimjamot 3 жыл бұрын
Man this is fucking amazing
@bjamiork 3 жыл бұрын
Alternatively: This man is fucking amazing
@GeorgeL909 3 жыл бұрын
I loved that drum beat you came up with. Honestly I think with just a tad bit more familiarity, especially in tracker note spacing and timing, you may end up falling in love with how insanely fast the tracker workflow can be. Once you have the skeleton laid out, the strength of the tracker is in adding variation by changing "instruments" with the notes you already laid down. Think like sample locking in the digitakt, but easier to visualize since you can see where each note is and what each note is on the track without searching too hard. 👍 enjoyed watching
@toastyghosty489 3 жыл бұрын
I’d love to see what you could come up with using this in conjunction with your 404. Something about the rigidity of the Polyend and the free form of the 404 seems really interesting, even if you just used the 404 as an FX machine. Good video as always, you tha man!!
@M27UNDERGROUND 3 жыл бұрын
I've been having the same thought..cause fx on the tracker are booboo...n sequencing on sp404 is also booboo....the two balance n compliment each other
@sebp400 3 жыл бұрын
@@M27UNDERGROUND yeah, the effects on SP's are great!
@IhorMedia 3 жыл бұрын
Yesterday when the notification came out I misread it like "Sampling Radion..." and was wondering who the hell this Radion dude is. Nice stuff Ricky, as always!
@gerbenvanengelen4166 3 жыл бұрын
In Amsterdam it could theoretically work, since Radion is the name of a club here!
@RickyTinez 3 жыл бұрын
hahaha oops. eitherway thanks for cruising through Ihor!! Dope badge! you're the first with that color
@eos777 2 жыл бұрын
Cool Jam, Dude!
@Beautyoutofruin 2 жыл бұрын
I enjoy my Polyend Tracker. Have you had a chance to check out the Dirtywave M8? I’m liken what I’ve seen so far,
@dejotb6784 2 жыл бұрын
Shiiiitttttt ! the end result is dope. Peace
@TheFlippertube 3 жыл бұрын
Tip: when you filled the volume and decided you wanted to adjust it down, you already had the column selected. So, you could also have used the jog wheel to adjust everything down while you listened.
@cokomairena 3 жыл бұрын
I had a feeling it has to be easier
@RickyTinez 3 жыл бұрын
whaaaaaat!! that's insanity
@tommyoz777 3 жыл бұрын
You were literally riding on the Metro. I gotta take some time to play with my tracker too.
@mastaboog749 Жыл бұрын
wow this thing is gnarly
@doranstewartstewart6521 Жыл бұрын
I bought myself the polyend tracker for Christmas and I love it it's a great modern sampler. I'm still digging into, I also bought the sonicware lofi but sadly I had to sell it. That being said my issue is with it controlling daw. I started making music on trackers like sunvox and renoise (I might have a sesh tonight.) I see that they're releasing the polyend mini, but no news on polyend collabing with any software companies. I would love for polyend to collab with the two. For a nice link/sync of hardware and software. If they do that so many people would tear the door down for this piece of gear. But hey the resale price on reverb has gone down so that's a plus.
@lolf3782 3 жыл бұрын
Great job showing the real life vibe of using this device - one of my favorites
@shinobi_musician 2 жыл бұрын
This end part is absolutely awesome. Also nice and quick explanation of basic workflow
@MarcellJjr Жыл бұрын
The op1 should have this screen and design
@pierrelabret 2 жыл бұрын
Amazing when you feel the vibe of a loop each time, I am laughing so hard. I want to buy one as I am searching for a device that samples radio on the fly since a long time now but didn't know any beside the OP-1 which is too expensive, but I read everywhere that it has so many bugs that it's just impossible to bring it live for example, is that true? Thanks in advance.
@alex-r-t 3 жыл бұрын
You should get Skillshare to allow you to sample lessons from there so you don't have to worry about copyright strikes.
@pleggli 3 жыл бұрын
I love trackers and use them a lot but for a hardware instrument there are just too few outputs on that thing. In the mid 90s when DAWs to become really usable I used export tracks one by one in from the trackers to get stems.
@fred4276 3 жыл бұрын
i always think this! imagine if the tracker had 8 outputs... maybe in a MK2
@syedali2943 3 жыл бұрын
I totally agree, it's one of the things that annoys me about it. Not only too few outputs, but crappy small jack output 😫 but at least they fixed the stem exports
@SanplerVarondaro 2 жыл бұрын
que buena versión saludos desde Tijuana
@MarcellJjr 3 жыл бұрын
Upvote for him to do a Digitakt 1.30 Review !
@edtuckerartist 3 жыл бұрын
Watching this and now I need a Polyend Tracker. No way I can afford one - dreams.
@amishjim 2 жыл бұрын
This it was pretty awesome to watch, homie. Hadn't seen this process before. Did you ever finish it on the other computer? Is there a video for that? I didn't see it in your videos feed. Would enjoy seeing more like this.
@GradyNickel 3 жыл бұрын
Did you get another one? The buttons look like the newer ones. I love this thing!
@audeon_visual 3 жыл бұрын
The Polyend Tracker is going to become the new hipster instrument. It's an incredible piece of equipment, but I can totally see some turkey buying this, bragging about owning it, and returning it bc they don't like the vertical arrangement or the workflow.
@vogelvogeltje 3 жыл бұрын
So what. It’s a tool. Use it.
@M27UNDERGROUND 3 жыл бұрын
I doubt there's gonna be many returns on this
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