@@adeevision1297 I usually bounce between 2 devices using a dj mixer. One point was 2 gameboys and a Lil mixer.

@@Aisjam that seems like a good idea as i have most of my songs on my electribe so might go between the 2.

I got mine yesterday. I played around with it all day and now it’s really easy to use. I’ve always wanted a portable workstation for only music. I got really uninspired using my iPad for music.

@@iiaaiiaannaaiiaaii haha. Cheers buddy

@@chambre466 polyphony I'd based on tracks so 3 note chord needs 3 tracks. However you can arm tracks so they are recorded as you play live or you can make the tracker an instrument and have up to 8 note polyphony

Cheers Tom. Been learning the ins and outs of each one so it's in the plan now. Perc is pretty good though

As much as I love the mini, I find that I have a hard time entering the melodies I like on it. There's no possibility to directly enter notes in a friendly way (with a mini keyboard, for example). But I may have found a workaround, through the use of a midi keyboard app on my Android phone. I'll experiment with that as soon as I receive my USB-c to midi cable.

so you are asking him if the software update 2.0 solves a hardware problem which you are referring to as device feeling "chunky" and "cheap"?

what do you think dude, do you think the software update did that?

@@redboycaptures 🤣yeah, I got that completely wrong, my mistake.

I guess it's really subjective, but I've been using line daily since I got it and I don't have any issues with the build. It is a fingerprint magnet for sure but that doesn't bother me - if aesthetics are up there with functionality for you then maybe it'd be an issue. Plastic seems tough enough, not noticed much flex and the keys are solid after thousands of jabs and quick switching between things/sweeping across multiple buttons to un mute etc. I kinda come from older school hardware built like tanks and this doesn't feel flimsy. It's light, sure, and I wouldn't want to drop it, but then again if it had a metal case I don't think it'd be as portable. Reminds me a bit of a kindle gen 2 in weight and feel. Now, I'm happy with mine and it's by far the best portable idea/arrangement tool going but there are a couple things. The first one isn't a fault or a real negative, or just a reality check as there are people out there saying that the tracker mini is everything you need from start to finish to create a track to the point of having it ready to upload. Perhaps this is the case for certain genres of music, but for me I can get maybe 80% of the way there, but I still need to export the stems and master in a daw to get it sounding the way I want. Luckily the mini makes it very easy because literally one of the export options is to export the stems and you get every track and separate send tracks and a master track you can use for reference. So it's pretty good in that regard. As to actual issues with it, one glaring issue, although it is an issue that I believe every piece of Hardware that is at the level of complexity modern Hardware is suffers from. I have had a few hardcore lockup moments when editing samples. As far as I can tell, it is only when you are editing longer files and chopping them up for use. It has only happened four or five times but it's a hard lockup and you have to turn off the machine and turn it back on again. Luckily it seems to have always saved everything I was doing up to that point so I have never lost anything other than say one slice. I know you weren't asking for a long review in the KZfaq comment section, but I thought I would mention my experience as I am someone who is not particularly into getting new bits of gear. I tend to get things second hand and this is the first time I've actually bought something new that is a bit of a trendy item one could say and for someone who did not have particularly high hopes and thought I would probably sell it after a couple of weeks. I am surprisingly happy with this tracker and honestly for the ability to be able to arrange music on the go. It is worth the cost of entry alone as that is something I struggle with when I have a daw or even my sp404 in front of me being able to start beats in one place and finish them pretty much anywhere else has helped me immensely. It's definitely not perfect. There are a few workflow quirks that I find downright clunky compared to other samplers that have been out for much longer, but the all-in-one package that you get from this thing is insane. I first started using trackers around 20 years ago and I suspect that this tiny little box I can hold in my hand has more power than the tracker software I was using then and is probably more powerful and even than the computer I was using then it's fucking wild.

@@arsebiscuitsandwine cheers for the excellent and detailed reply, much appreciated. I'm like you regarding buying habits. I prefer taking some time before purchasing gear, especially anything new, just to read/see how the product performs away from any spin reviews that sadly saturate some forms of media (hello KZfaqrs!). As an avid Kindle user I fell hard for the form factor. I was concerned about the weight though. I waited for a couple of months after they came into stock, from a UK based online retailer. And let's just say I wasn't impressed. For me, it was far too light. The chassis moulding seams never aligned, massive gap at the bottom at the screen, and worst of all the back had a huge bulge. Also the buttons chaffed when pressed. Quite why there is so much transport depth to them is really odd. I decided not to use it, for fear of falling for it, excusing those faults. Sent it back for a refund with the intention of buying another at a later date when/if the production kinks had been ironed out. Yet I can still see some of those faults in different videos nearly one year on. Hence my concern.

You can keep tracks to individual instruments and the same for the synths. Just trying new ways on organising projects with the synths sounds. So might plan some workflow videos.

@@AisjamCool, thanks! Will give it a try.

Do like portable trackers. LSDJ was my first but the mini is always around me to capture music ideas

Glad it helped. Gonna try to do some deep dives into instrument creation with the synths

@@Aisjam It's actually pretty crazy that the 2.0 manual just dropped and they don't have ANYTHING below surface level about synth editing haha. I mean most of it is pretty straightforward but some of the character settings on WTFM are a bit mysterious.

I second that! More Renoise vids, please!

Didn't get that too....why is this limitation?

@@k-g-p becasue its tied to the number of physical buttons 12x4=48 KO2 has 48 samples 12x4 groups sp-404mkii has 160 samples (16x10banks)

@@cresshead Thanks for explanation. But why don't we get sample banks in the tracker as in the digitakt 2 for example. Maybe 4×48 Sampleslots. That would be great

@@k-g-p if ram and cpu compute allows maybe a firmware update could add 'banks'

As someone who uses renoise and my MPC 1000, Can understand why multi tracks is really valuable for chords and chord programming. The Tracker does polyphony by the use of multiple tracks and you can live record them by arming a select amount of them. However Its kinda tedious programming of polyphony. I want to talk about in a future video about how tracker music hits different. Specifically how trackers forces polyphony in the combination of melodic lines over chord progressions. My musical taste growing up was game music and had a tough time defining genres as there was a special sauce that made these tunes sound so memorable. Its one reason I like the Tracker so much, one day hope to get an M8 too. But it is finding tools that support your music journey. Also I think by the end of the decade we will see a variety of all-in-one workstations to meet anyone's style. I have a lot to say in this area and you make good points.

What version of tracker and firmware are you running? think i had this issue with 1.7 and did a reinstall to solve it.

@@Aisjam I'm on 1.7.1... I've reinstalled several times and it's been happening for several updates... It might be the length of the samples tho. But thx, I appreciate the advice. I told myself I didn't need a new tracker.. But those dedicated midi tracks really suit my use workflow

Can't believe it's still 2 FX per channel. It's what made me return my mini.

Been pretty stable so far over the last month.

@@Aisjam Reassuring to hear! A few users have suggested issues with the onboard synths