Well that is a bummer. I like to play things in from external instruments sometimes, and being able to hear the rest of the track while I am recording is kind of key to that.
A little cut of me on day 2 of tracker live on Twitch. There is another hour hosted on there if youāre interested.
Just click on the twitch symbol, it should work.
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Reverb imminent
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Awe shitā¦I didnāt need to see/hear that. Thatās was so good 
Would someone mind throwing a bunch of money my way!? 
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Ya, I am feeling the machine a lot more than day 1. Day 1 was rough.
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Now that people have used the Tracker, how does it compare to using Renoise? Do you feel like youāre giving up a ton of features with the Tracker? Or are the essentials there? Obviously the hardware aspect is a big plus for most.
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I donāt have it, but based on the manual/specs/videos, you lose a lot if you move from Renoise. On the other hand, Renoise doesnāt have the Live mode that Tracker has, nor can you check social media from Tracker which is great.
Iām not ditching Renoise at this point. But I am in the market for a sampler to use for transitions for live sets, so I might pick one up for that role, but not as a workstation or Renoise replacement.
The biggest drawback is obviously the lack of sample memory. But Iām holding out that Polyend incorporates SD streaming. Deluge shipped with only little memory, but incorporated SD streaming in an update. But Deluge is significantly more expensive, so Iām not sure how that will translate to such upgrades for Tracker. Fingers crossed!
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sounds like Controversy by Prince 
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Tracker v1.0.5 FW
v1.1 FW to be released quite soon too with the option of either the delay or the new reverb from what I understand
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Been following this thread - like a news feed. Excellent info, thanks all.
Any polyend tracker owners sequencing the polyend tracker from an elektron and around the other way around.
Iād be interested to know how they integrate - midi loop backs and all. For example : machinedrum sequencing the tracker, cc controlling, and tracker doing its business triggering the MD.
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once mine arrives im gonna be using it as a song mode for sequencing the digitakt and digitone. song mode and tracker glory!
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An option between delay or reverb? Not both at the same time? Really hoping that aināt true.
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Iām not sure how system resources are allocated on Tracker but, yeah, not being able to run delay and reverb at the same time makes it seem like Tracker quite underpowered and not likely for significant upgrades for other aspects of the unit. I hope Iām wrong!
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You can still rock with it. Itās as good as the user. Speaking of under poweredā¦check this shit outā¦
512kb mem
2mb ram
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Just got the notification from Sweetwater that theyāre shipping out preorders.
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Yeah thereās no doubt that you can make great tracks with so little RAM. Some of my best tracks (methinks) were made within these limitations. But now Iām working with vocals and longer chunks of audio (4 or 5 minute piano phasing tracks ala Steve Reich) so itās not nearly enough for me. Plus Renoise or Sunvox are lighting fast without those limitations, and I already own those
But rock it if you got it!
run the classic tracker workaround and pitch everything up like crazy so itās a shorter sample. load it up and pitch it back down to its original length.
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Still doesnāt work with 4/5 minute tracks. Plus if you pitch it up to an extreme, you get nasty artifacts in the audio when you play it back in its original key. Nasty can be good. I like nasty. But Iād prefer to not be stuck with the nasty aliasing on vocal and piano tracks all the time.
Keep finding the holes instead of using what it offers. Always productive. 
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filters go a long way, you can also cut the source material into smaller pieces. did this for ages in piggy tracker.