Polyend Play+ Gets Major Firmware Update, Dirt Synth Engine
Polyend has released Play+ Firmware 1.3, a major update that adds Dirt, a new synth engine for warped, waveshaped timbres; a redesigned patch editor for faster sound design; and USB mass storage for direct SD card access alongside additional sound improvements.
New in Polyend Play+ Firmware 1.3:
The Dirt synth engine is built around waveshaping and warping, with 13 waveshaper modes that combine modulatable waveshapers with flexible filter routing and gain-staging for a massive palette of overdriven timbres. The main oscillator can be warped before being fed into the shaper.
Features:
- Morphable Oscillator + New Sub Osc: Blend between five base waves (sine, triangle, saw, square, narrow pulse). Mix in a new slightly darker sub oscillator.
- Bi-directional Warping: Skews the waveform in two distinct ways for positive vs. negative values, creating complex harmonics.
- 13 shapers with pre/post-filter routing: From musical saturation to extreme destruction. Saturator, Overdrive, Diode Clipper, Asymmetric, Waveshaper, Waveshaper+, Fuzz, Exciter, Bitcrush, Rectifier, Redux, Redux+, Redux+Bitcrush—with pre/post-filter routing.
- Modulation & Macros: Animate Warp and Drive via the mod envelope, assign any Dirt parameter to macros and sequence parameter locks for evolving synths.
- Gain staging: Shape the sound with Pre-Gain into the shaper and balance levels on the Voice page.
- New patch editor (faster sound design)
- A 3×3 knob grid is used to control 9 screen parameters, turn a knob to adjust the on-screen value.
- Page through synth parameters with the main encoder for continuous editing.
- More immediate control over 50+ patch parameters—quicker to build, tweak, and perform.
- USB mass storage (easier content management)
- Manage sample packs, patches, and projects directly from your computer.
- Enable via Main Menu – Settings – USB Mass Storage Mode to expose the SD card over USB.
- Additional improvements
- Perc engine kicks: Refined 808/909 kick engines for more accurate tone and feel.
Polyend Play + Firmware 1.3 Explained:
Play+ Firmware 1.3 is available now as a free update for all Play+ owners.
