Polyend Tracker v1.5 Firmware Now Available
Polyend has released Tracker v1.5, a firmware update that lets you save separate instruments with their settings, so you can import them to other projects, select slices in sample playback and more.
New Features:
- Tracker can now save separate instruments with all their settings. This allows importing those instruments to other projects you’re working on.
- You can now select slices in sample playback Beat Slice mode by pressing the corresponding pads
- The “Step” function button label in Pattern Editor is now labeled “Step jump”
Bug Fixes:
- Incorrect Fill range in certain settings is now fixed,
- Sample recorder wasn’t recording if MIDI chord was playing,
- Un-deletable instrument after loading project from the previous version is now fixed,
- 5.0b1 regression: samples could be normalized to 0 after adding a new sample to the song,
- Fixed freeze after changing granular LFO settings,
- Bringing up the Instruments popup on the Tracker screen occasionally resulted in a flickering screen,
- Slice fill effect counted “From” and “To” ranges incorrectly,
- Tracker mixer’s visual performance is now better,
- Removing OFF events revealed a left-over MIDI instrument on the track,
- Beat slices weren’t fully displaying,
- “Render Selection” was sometimes inconsistent,
- Horizontal view mode edits weren’t always refreshing correctly on-screen,
- Sample preview in Sample Recorder was sometimes distorted,
- Volume of fast rolls was increasing on the last step of a pattern,
- TSTP FX is not anymore interfering with song export,
- Tempo FX values below 40 were treated as T40,
- Current playing pattern wasn’t always in sync with highlighted song slot on the Song screen,
- Sidechain limiter stopped working after playing sound in Sample Editor/Sample Recorder,
- Active Reverb was cut when Sample Recorder was entered, even if “No” was selected,
- Subtle Limiter attack and release sounded too short after device restart,
- Changing radio region to Japanese didn’t apply until device restart,
- Part of the “Additional Info” bar was clearing when moving between Pattern Editor and other screens,
- Using Shift+Up to select contents of the current track selected all tracks instead when sequencer was running
See the Polyend website for details.
