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My unnamed tracker has capability to play and import Polyend and Protracker projects and audio and DSP to realize that the fullest but in addition...

1. It will load/save its own format.
2. Decent modern real-time timestrech.
3. Arbitrary length samples mono/stereo.
4. Polyend song themselves even with old features just sound much better given high-fidelity signal, oversampling, across the board better and less aliased DSP and some magic dust :-)
5. From eight to 16 channels.
6. Curvature of envelopes (I don't get why they didn't just do this, it is very weird).
7. 1010music Blackbox'ish hardware synth auto-multisampling.
8. All 16 channels are equal. I.e. no weird 8/8 divisions. All do samples and MIDI instruments.

That's about it for 1.0 DoD :-) I retain my right to reconsider licensing up until I release anything but most likely GPLv3.

I'll support Pipewire on Linux and CoreAudio on macOS and obviously Windows and WASAPI and ASIO support are welcome as contributions.

#tracker #polyend #chiptune #pipewire #linux

Jarkko Sakkinen Feb 24

Old school file browsing experience :-) Rendered as a single GLSL shader program (except top and bottom bar). There's now 1:1 correspondence between shader programs and screens. Most importantly this stabilizes latency for each tick in audio playback (smaller CPU time variance).

#tracker #polyend #chiptune

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Ted Curran M. Ed.Feb 23

@elifyalvac I wish they made something like #LSDJ #tracker for #Android, or even something like #Renoise. Especially with the popularity of the #Dirtywave and the #Polyend hardware trackers, there's clearly a demand for a modern tracker #daw for #mobile #musicians. I know we have #sunvox but I really struggle with its ux quirks. The best I've found is actually a browser based webapp called [efflux](https://www.igorski.nl/apps/efflux). #effluxtracker #trackermusic #trackerdaw

Efflux - Web based music maker

Efflux, application by Igor Zinken.

igorski.nl

Jarkko Sakkinen Feb 15

after fixing a few rendering glitches next step with this will be wavetable and granular oscillators 🙂 #polyend #tracker

Jarkko Sakkinen Feb 14

I'm slowly putting together a software clone slash inspired of first edition of Polyend Tracker:

https://bsky.app/profile/jarkk0.bsky.social/post/3mesd3hefkk22

All the graphics code is going throug rewrite (undoing egui for other than layouts, per-pixel rendering to texture for each block) and doing direct pipewire backend, and later on CoreAudio for macOS :-)

#polyend #chiptune

Jarkko Sakkinen (@jarkk0.bsky.social)

It's a Polyend Tracker clone in early phases 🙂 Features 64-bit low-latency realtime signal path and SIMD optimized mixer, effects and filters (SVF LP/BP/HP). Loads Polyend Tracker's PTI instruments. Have been doing this for some time with ultra low priority.

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JoYo Dec 25

I don't see a lot of #polyend play+ beat making. that’s kinda sad, it’s a very visually engaging UX.

Maybe that’s my new year resolution for music making, post some beat making videos. #synthesizer

Sandroid Nov 19

Firmware 1.3 for the ‪Play+ introduced the new DIRT Synth Engine. Perfect time to jam with it! Audio is sent through the Polyend Press and recorded directly without any further processing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPEJfa6KpXc

#polyend #polyendplay #dawless #electronica #electronicmusic #music #musodon