Comment by 999900000999
Comment by 999900000999 20 hours ago
I actually have a Polyend Tracker.
It is a VERY weird device to say the least. I found myself not really enjoying it. The issue with hardware is when you want a final result mastering and splitting up tracks is like teeth extraction.
Vs using software where you can just export stems and hand it off to someone else.
However, with software you end up spending a lot of money on non tangable goods.
I can sell my Polyend. Selling a software license normally isn't possible.
Plus say you own a license to version 10.x. The day version 11.x comes out, the previous version might be worthless.
Vs vintage audio gear which might actually go up in value.
I was pretty surprised that the Polyend Tracker could spit out channel stems at least. I ended up selling mine when I needed some extra money to made ends meet, will buy one again eventually.
>However, with software you end up spending a lot of money on non tangable goods.
Yeah it sucks that this also keeps us locked into platforms for so much longer. I've been buying Reason updates for a decade, and own a bunch of Korgs VST releases of their hardware synths (Op-Six, Modwave, etc). If I can at least get the Korg stuff running on Linux one day that would be nice. It might be possible but I haven't tried.
>Plus say you own a license to version 10.x. The day version 11.x comes out, the previous version might be worthless.
Shout out to Renoise for being affordable and you get a whole versions worth of updates. Which after over a decade I still haven't had to pay again, but will gladly when the time comes. Plus I can even run it on a raspberry pi now.