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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#Tracker #polyend #PolyendTracker - Hudba
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.
Protracker was my start. On the Amiga. This device looks amazing. Wish I could afford one.
SAME!!
Loving the âstank faceâ @15:35. Thatâs a sure fire sign that a track is kicking
I was about to say lol
Without fail when I watch your videos I always end up being inspired to start working on some music. The genuine enthusiasm is awesome!
This screen and the way it sequence takes me back to Fast Tracker 2 for DOS back in the early 90s. đ
15:34 made my day đ just amazing again !!!
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!
15:40 your face..thats the white eyed love groove. Great vid
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! đ
Single cycle waveforms on this thing are a blast too. Set playback to forward loop and away you go.
The tracker is such a winner, I love it!
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.
Great video, loved it! Tracker is a gamechanger â€ïž I loved the get connected sample too lol, got some major early 2000s broadband internet advertising vibes
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.
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.
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.
Synth sample at the start sounded like Justice. Good stuff dude.
For all of us that grew up using Fast Tracker 2
Iâve always loved to sample off of the radio with the OP-1, so I can imagine itâs super fun on the PT too
Always one of the best parts of a Saturday. Thanks for the video :)
Thanks for rolling through :)
I love my Tracker so much, it's such a cool bit of kit
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.
This looks awesome Ricky. â„ïžđ€đč
the random name generator is a really nice touch
15:34: best moment on this channel for me, we all agree on this as apparently, Thank You for all the sharing Enrique!
fuckin lo key meme.
It's been a long time since I've laughed so much with a video, I felt the same as Ricky.
AGREED!
You rock Ricky!
that synth/bassline you made is too fire
bought one of these a couple of weeks ago, incredible piece of gear
just be careful with that jog wheel đ
@@syedali2943 oh man i read it could fail but iâm assuming itâs likely to fail then?
@@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 đ
@@syedali2943 yeah i saw that i the manual which made me a bit worried
@@madguy228 same, and how fragile it feels sometimes when turning it!
15:34 THAT'S what I was waiting for XD
"oh, each....sure" lol that was funny dude. happens to me all the time tracing my steps back to a mistake
Awesome stuff, homie
Looks like lots of fun
This looks like so much fun.
These sponsor cutaways are awesome
absolutely sick jam on this one holy shit
enjoyed every minute. thanks
Yo! Loved this! Now I want a tracker again. That radio sampling is just too cool.
That pitching of the hihat sample at 4min sounds awesome. Cool man
Ricky Tinez is a legend and we love him.
I love this! I love your content and your channel. You are amazing and very talented. đ
just ordered mine..cannot wait..
man... those thumbnails are amazing!!!
Cool Jam, Dude!
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 đ
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 đ
Did they fixed midi - audio latency? Iâll buy it back next minute if they did.
Does it do AM?
The final part in the end of the video đ€đ»đŸ
I've been sampling from 91.5 fm in LA. Nice classical music to sample from .
That machine is amazing. Hugely expensive for this poor boy but wow thatâs fun. This may be my favourite video youâve done in quite a while.
Get connected!
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.
Shiiiitttttt ! the end result is dope. Peace
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.
Hardest wub since Azido Da Bass đ€
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 đ€·đŸââïž but I definitely won't be getting rid of this again, my little studio felt empty without it.
Nice groove there! :)
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.
oh yeah! 17:27 sounds so much like AKUFEN! I love your channel, sir!
Youre so CRAZY fast - "Tricky Ricky". Insane ! ;-)
Probably the best showcase of Tracker in whole life of this instrument.
I'd like to see an opinion of Dr Mix about it.
wow this thing is gnarly
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!
Well, you can just mangle samples on the DT, that it its specialty.
Man this is fucking amazing
Alternatively: This man is fucking amazing
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.
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.
Thanks for the explanation đŻ
Wow, this really reminds me of Fast Tracker and Buzz.... takes me back.
man! when that low pass kicked in on 15:34 I did the same face you did!
"I have yet to make a full song on this thing"
I finally feel like I'm not alone. Unfinished jams rejoice!
Like 95% of the users on youtube havent made a complete song
@@prototype9000 that phenomenon isn't unique to the tracker. It has everything to do with the self-discipline.of the person using it
time to pick the tracker back up.... THANK YOU RICKY!
This video makes me consider getting a polyend. Thank you.
I've had so much fun working with the tracker, it's such a deep instrument
Around 15:35 Ricky is almost as excited as if he was using PRO LEVEL CHORDS đ
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!
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.
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?
Use mine to sequence and chop all the time. Love it
It is like the Impulse tracker in the 90s
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?!
Too soon, too far... you're in deep! hahaha
That "Get Connected" sample straight up sounds like a Mr. Oizo sample
Great job showing the real life vibe of using this device - one of my favorites
I have always had a similar problem as you with all of my MPCs ever. Banging loops, but could never âfinishâ or create a song directly on it. Iâm 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.
This end part is absolutely awesome. Also nice and quick explanation of basic workflow
nice work, looks like fun
damn you for creating GAS for yet another device :-)
15:22 "and if I go back..." and then it slaps so good!
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. đ enjoyed watching
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.
The op1 should have this screen and design
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
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
@@rorz999 I hope dragging the legendary Ricky Tinez helps ease your buyer's remorse.
Tracker Loveâïž
Iâd 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!!
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
@@M27UNDERGROUND yeah, the effects on SP's are great!
This thing is the coolest god damn unit. But damn i hate trackers. But like, the keyboard keys, the radio, the auto naming đ 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
"I honestly want them to make a different kinda unit, but like the same"
U wot m8?
@@rorz999 yea it doesn't make sense
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!
In Amsterdam it could theoretically work, since Radion is the name of a club here!
hahaha oops. eitherway thanks for cruising through Ihor!! Dope badge! you're the first with that color
There's something satisfying about pressing buttons rather than a touchscreen. Might pick one of these up on payday
Anything I own with a touchscreen can also be controlled by buttons and encoders.
I enjoy my Polyend Tracker. Have you had a chance to check out the Dirtywave M8? Iâm liken what Iâve seen so far,
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Upvote for him to do a Digitakt 1.30 Review !
You were literally riding on the Metro. I gotta take some time to play with my tracker too.
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.
I had a feeling it has to be easier
whaaaaaat!! that's insanity
cool
You should get Skillshare to allow you to sample lessons from there so you don't have to worry about copyright strikes.
Hahaha the "face of filth". You know shits good when it's got you pulling that face...
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.
i always think this! imagine if the tracker had 8 outputs... maybe in a MK2
I totally agree, it's one of the things that annoys me about it. Not only too few outputs, but crappy small jack output đ« but at least they fixed the stem exports
Did you get another one? The buttons look like the newer ones. I love this thing!
Hello, I come from the world of Protools and am having a hard time getting used to this format. I bought this Polyend Tracker recently because Iâve become severely disabled and I really wanted to find something like this that doesnât need a DAW that I could produce music ideas on. My past sampler experience was on the Roland SP-808 where I was easily able to produce a record years ago. Any more intro to tracker production videos that you can make would be fantastic! I can follow you easy which is not the case with many of these tutorials that I find on CZcams.
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.