11 thoughts on “Polyend Updates Tracker & Play Firmware”

1. Always good to see a company actively improving their products.
   And, as a software developer myself, I know this takes a lot of work and testing.
   It’s a delicate balance supporting your older products too vs building new.

   1. This has to be a joke right?

2. Polyend Tracker is a BUG machine !!! sold it after many update, and too many bug again !!

3. i regret buying the play plus, it still is a weird unfinished product with manny flaws and bugs.. no matter how strong the astroturfing on their forum is…
   for example it shipped to me broken and the forum just let me hang. the admin is off course not actually part of the company. but he does represent them and does the demo’s on the big fairs. watch out for the ‘seamless’ usb functionality. ands its not class compliant. so no iOS integration. some have it halfway working with extra dongles and soecific hubs. the shared power/ usb midi/ audio port is problematic.
   the unit has been in the storage after a few plays
   maybe should try selling it now with the new little firmware update hype.

   1. Or you could just drop the misleading informations and Update your device with latest os. Like normal users do.

   2. Had similar issues with the OG, before they pulled their move with the plus. USB should be a very simple matter: class compliancy, MIDI, power should be standard for any new synth, no matter the size. The TR-6s or Dreadbox Typhon became class-compliant after software updates, but Polyend said, it’s not posible to the OG because of hardware limitations, which is bull.

      Long story, short: I’d sell the device, if I was you. It had bugs since the beginning, which even the OG did not have. I don’t like Synthtube, but theres a video by Dylan Paris, which tells it all.

      Polyend are notorious for slow feature updates, while not fixing bugs and eventually abandoning their products. The “rejected features which got voted for by actual users” thread on Polyend’s forum will show you the sometimes basic, useful and not far out features hardware-wise, that you will never get. They really have an attitude, but after all, their products are like Teenage Engineerings’: toys, built by children.

      1. I 100 % disagree with you, i wouldnt call Trackers for toys, but I also understand that Trackers are not for everyone.

         1. Alright, well I cut my teeth on FT2 in DOS and use Renoise as my primary DAW, along with various hardware MIDI sequencers and gear.

            The Tracker is a POS all the way around with no redeaming qualities. My Deluge can dance a million circles around it, and I’d flat out prefer to continue using FT2 in a DOSBox to this POS.

            It deserves nothing but a road bounce, and it’s no surprise people who have paid solid money for their other pieces of gear have hit the same lack of updates and QOL features as the Tracker.

            They are no Elektron by any stretch of the imagination, who continue to make my original Digitakt and Digitone awesome. Heck, they aren’t even Novation, who have at least make solid efforts to alleviate issues with the Peak and my Summit even after a core dev left.

            Poop on this company, they are stiff makers.

4. Andreas: sure i will update. So does it include the Midi perform mode, that was announced exactly one year ago? or had that been a little misleading information.

   Rango, thanks for your input. Elektron also gave their entry-level product line usb class compliancy in firmware updates. Same for the Roland mc101/707.
   i will check out that video.

   1. Yes, you can see and read more about that here:
      https://backstage.polyend.com/t/beta-firmware-play-and-play-midi-perform-mode/15585

      1. yes that is a beta firmware, and since the official firmware has its share of bugs and instabilities I choose not to install it.