Polyend Tracker Tabletop Sampler, Wavetable, Synthesizer and Sequencer

Go Vertical with Polyend’s Sleek, Modern Hardware Tracker
Back in 1987, the first tracker software program was introduced to the world. With its vertical column design and hexadecimal coding, it looked more like a moving spreadsheet than something that created music. However, when curious musicians started digging into the software, they discovered the idiosyncratic layout provided a highly efficient workflow; the vertical column configuration provided visibility over every component of a composition. The humble software tracker also possessed incredible flexibility in terms of sound design, letting you manipulate samples in entirely unique ways. By the early-1990s, electronic and synthpop artists had thoroughly embraced trackers and built a community around them, sharing samples, software, and innovations. The Polyend Tracker pays tribute to those pioneering software trackers, but it liberates them from the computer and puts them into a sophisticated, interactive, and inspiring hardware unit. Not only that, but the Polyend Tracker expands on the creative potential of the tracker format, adding a slew of effects to transform any sample into an instrument, along with wavetable and granular synthesis. And, it has backward compatibility with old school tracker files (called MODs), so that you can finally finish that jungle banger you started back in ‘92. With its sleek interface and slim portable design, the Polyend Tracker is a go-anywhere total music production system. And, electronic musicians and beatmakers at Sweetwater will tell you the Polyend Tracker is highly addictive. Once you go vertical, you’ll never go back!


Build massive patterns
Polyend Tracker projects hold up to a massive 48 instruments with 256 patterns and 128 steps per pattern — so compositions are only limited by your imagination! And they all play back in the iconic vertical column format, which tracker aficionados argue is the ideal way to compose electronic music. Beyond the sample effects section, the Polyend Tracker comes equipped with numerous compositional tools, including automatic pattern filling, per-step effects, sample rolls, and batch and global parameter editing. After you’ve constructed your patterns, Tracker’s Song Arranger makes it easy to assemble them into a finished piece, which you can save to a microSD card as a stereo master or as stems to upload to your DAW.
Endless sound manipulation
Like the trackers of yore, the Polyend Tracker is primarily a sample-based music production tool. And, to that end, it includes potent sample manipulation capabilities. Tracker lets you upload samples via microSD Card or capture them in real-time through its mic and line inputs. It also includes a radio receiver for snagging samples off the airwaves! Once you’ve got your sample, you can manually trim it or let the Tracker do it for you automatically. Then, it’s time to shape, mangle, and transmogrify your sample with Tracker’s deep toolkit of pitch-shifters, filters, reverbs, envelope generators, reverse and ping-pong modes, and granular and wavetable synthesis.



MIDI-equipped and performance-ready
While Polyend Tracker stays true to the essential elements that make trackers what they are, it expands on their functionality in several incredible ways. First, Polyend Tracker is MIDI-enabled, unlike many original trackers, so that it can integrate with all of your devices. Use it to sequence hardware synths or control it from your DAW or with an external controller. Additionally, Polyend Tracker excels in a performance setting — it doesn’t merely play back the tracks. With assignable punch-in effects and on-the-fly editing capabilities, you can tweak and remix live, something not possible with software trackers.


Polyend Tracker Hardware Tracker Features:

All the essential software tracker elements plus more in a sleek, portable hardware device
Large display screen, mechanical buttons, and an intuitive interface
Vertical column configuration is an efficient and fun way to compose and arrange
Each project allows 48 instruments and 256 patterns with 128 steps per pattern for building massive tracks
Upload samples via microSD card or capture them on the unit through its mic and line inputs
Includes a radio receiver for grabbing samples off the airwaves
Manipulate samples in limitless ways with pitch-shifting, envelope generators, filters, one-shot, reverse, and ping-pong modes, and reverb
Wavetable and granular synthesis offer deep sound design capabilities
Performance features let you take the Polyend Tracker live
MIDI-equipped to sequence hardware devices or to receive MIDI commands from your DAW or an external MIDI controller
Export projects to a microSD card as master stereo tracks or stems
USB bus-powered


Tech Specs

Type:Sampler/Sequencer with Wavetable Synth
Internal Sound Engine:Wavetable Synthesis, Granular Synthesis
Screen:7" LCD Screen
Pads:48 x Backlit Silicon Pads
Sounds:4,000 Preloaded Samples
Polyphony:8-voice recording
Sequencer:8-track, 256 Patterns, 128 Steps per Pattern
Sampling:2 minute Sampling, 1-shot, Forward, Backward, Ping-pong, Automatic Slicing
Effects Types:Reverse, Delay, Bitcrusher, Chorus, Flanger, Limiter, Compressor, Normalizer, WT Smoother
Analog Inputs:1 x 1/8" (mic), 1 x 1/8" (line)
Analog Outputs:1 x 1/8" (main out)
Headphones:Yes, shared with main out
MIDI I/O:USB, In/Out (1/8" with DIN adapter)
Storage:microSD Card Slot (16GB card included)
USB:1 x USB-C
Format:WAV files
OS Requirements - Mac:OS X 10.11 or later
OS Requirements - PC:Windows 10 or later
Power Supply:USB Bus powered
Height:1.3"
Width:11.02"
Depth:8.15"
Weight:2.65 lbs.
Manufacturer Part Number:Tracker

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