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The Polyend is proud to push its Tracker Sampler, Synthesizer, and MIDI Sequencer further forward with a welcomed functionality-boosting firmware update taking it up to v1.3.0 — also adding the timely introduction of onboard games into an otherwise musical mix, allowing users to take a breather from music-making and refill their creative juices, just in time for Christmas as of December 24.
As the world’s first hardware tracker, Polyend’s Tracker MIDI maker was introduced back in March this year, incorporates the quintessential characteristics of a classic software tracker as its vertical timeline, powerful MIDI sequencer, and mechanical keyboard combine with an innovative input interface design to make and perform music in a new and intuitive way.
When first getting hands-on with Tracker music sequencer, that interface readily reveals an array of tools that are always at its user’s fingertips, further boosted by the following forward-looking functionality of the latest v1.3.0 firmware update:
- MIDI CC input
- MIDI micro-tuning effects
- MIDI chord functionality
- Track arm recording
- Line In (input) availability during Song playback
- Longer sample import
- Low-quality sample import
- Unused sample deletion
- Bass booster
- Bit-depth
- Distortion
- Five-band EQ
- New limiter (with gain reduction meter)
- Stereo enhancer effects
- Limiter sidechaining functionality
- Sample Editor time stretch effects (with beat and note modes) Octave transpose
- Enhanced Pattern editor fill command (with Euclidean fills creation and Density setting with Random fills availability)
- Rewriting from scratch rendering mechanism
Polyend Tracker users can now enjoy playing the onboard games gifted to them by Polyend as part of the latest v1.3.0 firmware update, and allowing them to take a breather from music-making and refill their creative juices, just in time for Christmas! Current Tracker owners — or those that have been good throughout the year, and are hoping to get one this Christmas.
Polyend Tracker comes complete with a USB-A power adapter, 2m USB-C cable, 3.5mm to 2x 6.3mm adapter, Minijack to MIDI DIN adapter, 16GB MicroSD card, and MicroSD to USB-A adapter, and is available to purchase through Amazon.com and Bhphotovideo.com websites at an MSRP of $599.
