Jakub Steiner โญWhen the Polyend tracker came out, I was shocked. What do you mean a tracker as a hardware device? While I barely use it these days it is responsible for my return to producing music again.
During COVID I rediscovered music trackers thanks to a Polish electronic instrument maker creating the Polyend Tracker. Back in the day I started making music on the Fast Tracker 2. This device felt like magic. After almost 2 decades I started making music again.
Polytracker is collecting dust now, because it was outdone by the convenience and size of the Dirtywave M8, but it continues to have a place in my heart.
Jarkko SakkinenMy 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
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
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
#tracker #polyend #chiptune
Ted Curran M. Ed.@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
after fixing a few rendering glitches next step with this will be wavetable and granular oscillators ๐ #polyend #tracker
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
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 ๐ 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.
JoYoI don't see a lot of #polyend play+ beat making. thatโs kinda sad, itโs a very visually engaging UX.
Maybe thatโs my new year resolution for music making, post some beat making videos. #synthesizer
SandroidFirmware 1.3 for the โชPlay+ 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
Rusty Jam with some DIRT
mr_daemonMore tired than I'd like, but still wanted to do a thing for #looptober today
Sampled myself humming a shaky C note and went from there
