Geez, they’ve been teasing this thing for some time. Excited to see what it is.
mongrol
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It’s a grid based controller groovebox built on tracker firmware. It can’t possibly be anything else and all this money pouring into marketing would be better spent on dev time.
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rainlet
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The video floating around of Benn Jordan playing it makes me think it’s got some more performance based features that the Tracker doesn’t. Personally I’m hoping for some synth engines in there, hopefully it’ll be a decent Deluge competitor (though the sequencing is almost certainly step based and not piano roll). I’m probably getting it, but I’m a sucker for grooveboxes.
I’m not a fan of the long teaser campaign, but I think it’s unfair to imply that they’re just phoning it in, since they’ve obviously been developing this for at least a year and a half or so.
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The big question for me on the polyend is whether it’s got battery power / transportability - I’m really feeling the need for a handheld-ish, battery powered device capable of doing serious work on the train now that my job are starting to get more insistent about regular physical attendance. Basically the upsides of the OP-1 but with a more conventional workflow.
MPC Live is a little too big for my liking, guess I could possibly get a battery pack for my Digitakt, but overall I’d been leaning towards grabbing a Dirtywave M8 later in the year, but very interested in how this one pans out. I do agree that “teasers” need to go, though, or at most they should last a week or so before a launch event after which the thing is available to buy, a la Elektron.
I’ve also been heavily interested in the Flux sequencer for my eurorack, feel like a rhythm composition hub would be really helpful for my setup, but I’ve kinda been holding back to see how the next firmware shapes up - too expensive to buy on a whim - but now the Stolperbeats and Constellation also both seem to be very close to what I’m looking for. Really is a great time for music technology tbh.
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timp
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They shared another vid, using a contact mic…
“The wood baseplate is picked up with a piezo and amped by Tausend dB, its audio chopped with Befaco Percall and routed through Multiplikand. Wntrblm Castor & Pollux on bleeps”
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This thing looks so hot. This is the kind of intelligent and bonkers development I love euro for
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I’m sure this will happen as Tracker is USB-C already and it’s unlikely they’ll “downgrade” for this one 
Wishing for battery powering option as well, happy with my Deluge but there aren’t enough “self-contained” portable things like that in the world yet.
I warmly recommend the Synthstrom Deluge. It’s surprisingly compact, does long audio tracks, sampling / sample playback, synthesis (subtractive, 2-op FM, sample-based, wavetables on the upcoming v4), quite flexible and fun sequencing (external MIDI and CV gear), etc. and runs about 5-6h with one battery charge. It has its quirks, isn’t for everyone like everything, and most of all relies quite heavily on shortcuts and memory so needs some actual learning to become fluid with - but is also one of the few devices that sort of does it all and runs on internal battery, aside OP-1, MPC Live and the Dirtywave, and so far my favourite out of those.
It’s larger than OP-1, but smaller than Live, about the size of a 13" laptop and somewhat thicker I guess. The big plus is that it exists / is available now, and has 5 years of updates and development behind it already.
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Net
4031
This will be tremendous, and in such a smol form factor (at the expense of the euro interface of Urano, apparently). Urano can be made to behave like a multitimbral polyphonic synth but it takes some patching.
I love watching how Gotharman shifts his use/performance focus from one design to the next.
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I probably don’t need this, but I love the idea of pairing this with the Noon I have on pre-order!
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Does it have variable step/gate length, seems pretty key for NOON.
Solid question - not sure. I’m keeping eagle eyes on the details as they start to trickle out though!
DatGood
4037
Cre8audio again. Function Junction
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Quru
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Interface seems cool for sure but I can’t help but think does the world really need another Juno emulation? Or 808 or 909 or Minimoog for that matter. Can’t imagine there’s much audible difference to the original to be gained anymore and I don’t think any emulation will satisfy those that haven’t already been satisfied. Thirty years from now Roland will still come out with new Junos and this time it’ll be the modern Roland polysynth we’ve been waiting for. I’m sure it sounds good, it looks kinda cool but with screen and all I’m sure it’s filled with all kinds of modern stuff doesn’t fit the trying-to-be-minimal-modern-juno ethos and makes me go a bit ehhhh. Of course it’s hard to say with nothing being certain but I don’t know what niché does it fill: it seems more limited at least based on controls than System-8 and will it even satisty people who want that Juno feel and sound?
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Richie
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yeh im hyped cant afford the urano, so hope this goes some way there!
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Anyone else’s mind immediately go here? 
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Net
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It looks like the best of both worlds to me (Urano-esque modular structure, LD3-esque polyphony). Perhaps it’ll even have stereo link for FX, which is something I miss sometimes in Urano (it can be substituted via lengthy patching).
These devices are so good at internal modulation and triggering that an iteration without a direct eurorack interface makes sense. Awesome.
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DatGood
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That’s exactly what they were referencing.
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