Polyend Tracker Tutorial: Get Tracking in 1 Hour

Being a long chill tutorial/walkthrough where Łukasz from Polyend remotely goes over everything you need to know to get started making your brain dance on the excellent Polyend Tracker. // If you ever decide to buy a Tracker please consider this affiliate link: https://tidd.ly/3LlDA7n SUPPORT THE CHANNEL ⚡️ Support Mylar Melodies on Patreon: http://patreon.com/mylarmelodies (And join the Discord community) ▶ Or if you choose to buy a Tracker, please consider using this affiliate link! https://tidd.ly/3LlDA7n MORE INFO ▶ https://polyend.com/tracker/ ▶ What and WHY are trackers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiILSgNt23E TRACKER MUSIC TO ENJOY ▶ https://bogdanraczynski.bandcamp.com/album/samurai-math-beats-2 ▶ https://aphextwin.bandcamp.com/album/drukqs ▶ https://venetiansnares.bandcamp.com/album/cavalcade-of-glee-and-dadaist-happy-hardcore-pom-poms ▶ https://n4records.bandcamp.com/album/pete-cannon-8bit-trip-e-p ▶ https://idaidaida.bandcamp.com/album/the-breaks SOFTWARE TRACKERS TO TRY: ▶ Player Pro is available on Mac, this is what RDJ used: https://sourceforge.net/projects/playerpro/ ...indeed: https://vimeo.com/223378825 ▶ Renoise is cheap and modern and powerful - as used by Venetian Snares: https://www.renoise.com/ (now supported on Linux!) ▶ OpenMPT is free: https://openmpt.org/ ▶ Fast Tracker Clone: https://16-bits.org/ft2.php CHAPTERS 00:00 What are we doing today? 00:15 Why should people learn trackers? 01:32 Will Trackers Let me make more intricate music? 03:03 Arrangement Overview 04:22 Entering Notes 05:08 Choosing Sounds 06:16 Step Jump 07:22 Delete Notes 07:51 Muting Tracks 09:29 The Coolness of Fill 13:09 Fill Summary 16:26 FX: 'Change Playback Behaviours' 18:52 Effects: Reverb & Delay & more 23:13 Output Limiter: Sidechaining 24:39 Editing FX, Built-in Manual 25:53 The Promise of Flow 27:53 Destructive Sample Effect Baking 31:05 Making Complex Samples from layers 32:06 Granular Sound Design 36:13 Wavetable Synthesis Mode 40:00 How to Combine Rows to a Sample 41:39 Sample Time Limitations 42:15 Song Mode Principles 43:10 Perform Mode! 48:38 Radio Gaga!! Recording Samples 50:41 That's the entire thing! Steps to learn it 52:08 Oh. YOU CAN RUN NES GAMES ON IT 53:22 THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING 54:35 Parting Advice for Would-be Trackers 57:03 Tracker Plus Modular/MIDI Instruments? Yes. 58:40 Check out Łukasz's tunes