Tracker, at the moment and in my opinion, is everything you need to make great music.
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with this sale Iād wager the plus is on its way.
I have a feeling it might be like the play where they only beef up the internals. I can see em just doing that to bring it in line with the tracker miniās horsepower. I guess that saves them a tonne on r&d not having to redesign stuff and all.
in that regard weād probably be looking at stereo samples, and extended sample time. not much else tho (currently).
would be cool if they added some new stuff. there was a user discussion & wish on the poly forum regarding adding offline sound generators for sample fodder. being able to generate sounds n sample em into the pool. thats a wonderful idea imo.
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Thanks for the replies guys!
Yes @Amy, at this price the OG tracker is very tempting but iād rather wait for the newer and āfuture proofā version;
As @zwobot and @pidgeo kindly suggest, the chance for a Tracker + coming soon is fairly high. 
tracker+ would probably be twice the price of this current tracker sale, so itās worth keeping that in mind too.
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Thatās right.
Howās the state of the firmware of the tracker? Is it relatively bug-free now?
Yeah but that price is cheaper than B-Stock price two years ago before the price rise up. This is the cheapest the Tracker ever been. Even asking myself if all I need is just two Trackers.
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itās a nice price for sure.
Iām tempted.
the only thing holding me back is that if I get one Iāll use my play+ less. the more gear I get the less I use any of it. itās a pattern Iāve observed in myself. so having just a few pieces which are very different to each other is optimal for me.
still tho, 399. decent 
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I donāt think you will find anything more fun and creative for this price.
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Thanks. It seems that the Tracker is a very loved and enjoable instrument!
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New 1.8 firmware.
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I use my Polyend Play for drums and sequencing my modularā¦really like it but need a sampler. I can get a used tracker for 350. Iāve read in the past that syncing with these for transport and clock with other machines has not been the best but does anyone have the play and tracker and sync them so they use their own sequencersā¦which would be the master and which the slave preferably?
Thanks.
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I grabbed the tracker last time they went on sale (I think it was like $360?) and have not regretted it. Midi sync has been fine for me as a slave from the digitone keys and havenāt had any crazy bugs. I really donāt use the jog wheel that much as I prefer the arrow buttons but havenāt had any issues. If they blow them out again, itās still a great deal even if they release a + version (which I would probably pickup if they did).
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Dexba does Polyend
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Thomann are currently selling the tracker for Ā£345.
Ive got Elektron trilogy, A4 and an M8 to name a few, however the Polyend tracker ive always found great fun to use and for Ā£345 a total bargain.
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Ä° wish i waited till this price. Ä°ts crazy i bought it for 550
Edit: i think 500
Theyāve done a great job with this update. Bad bugs squashed and shift+jog is a really nice enhancement. āoriginalā graphics also look proper now which they didnāt in 1.7.
Basically 1.6 was great. 1.7 was a bit of a disaster and 1.8 is a really nice update.
i wonder whether this is it or whether they have some more (updates) coming for the OG tracker. I still use mine all the timeā¦
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Can the PT send Program changes send to other external Hardware Samplers?
It can.
I plan to do a combo PT and Mpc1000. Isnt the MPC the better Master for the combo?
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I just got one from the Thomann offer in Germany, without any particular history of trackers. Some thoughts for those who consider itā¦
My highlight so far is the user interface. The interplay between the grid of pads, the jog, and the keys is absolute genius (plus the generous screen size and clever features like step advance). The pace at which you can craft complex patterns, also melodic ones and not just beats, is mindblowing. Crafting a melody or some chords on the pads and then entering them in the āspreadsheetā is a breeze. (This also means that Iād never get a Tracker mini as it lacks all those control elements.) In a way, the Tracker is the multi-track sequencer to end all multi-track sequencers. Making patterns is so quick that you all of a sudden start to make entire songsā¦
My lowlight, on the other hand, is an astounding lack of features I would have considered to be so obvious for such a device. The Tracker could be a powerhouse for generative music ā all the ingredients are there ā but it stops like an inch before the finish line. āRandom noteā is pretty much useless for anything but chromatic approach notes for lack of scale selection (unless you nail your entire piece to one scale). Elektron style āplay every n timesā or āonly on odd passesā? No. Play only if the previous step is played? No. All of this could be so easily implemented in the Trackerās FX approach, but it simply isnāt.
The principle of the tracker seems to be that you pretty much hard-code the variations you want rather than using generative tools. You can easily double pattern in length to ācodeā variations, or duplicate them. But this leaves you with either very long or very many patterns, both of which get tricky to manage.
What really annoys me here is that the Tracker is soooo close to all of this. Itās already great, but it could be 10x greater with tiny additionsā¦ I have never wished so much a unit would open-source itās firmware.
Anyway, for the reduced price itās still a no-brainer! Even if just used a sequencer for MIDI gear (which I havenāt even gotten into).
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