I’ve used every groovebox/arranger on the market in the last two decades and while it’s not perfect, the Play is hands down my favorite. The flow of just dropping samples wherever you want, tweaking them with a touch of a finger, copy pasting them with a longer press, and then flipping over to performance mode to chop em/stutter them is incredible. The melodic keyboard needs a LOT of work, there are some kinks in the live record mode but I have faith they will fix with updates. For pure, fun beat/melody experimentation, this is an amazing device. Lovely MIDI sequencing as well.
@@chrisolley2762 it sounds like whatever you feed it. I don’t notice any change dynamically in sound quality on actual samples I’ve loaded in from warmer/fatter sources. This isn’t a sound engine, it’s a sample player. It’s only as warm/thick as what you load into it.
I’m just getting into these types of devices . Can the beats you create on this be imported into a daw? I would have assumed so but I saw someone comment saying this wasn’t possible?
Thank you for going so deeply into this selection. It's a tremendous device. One of the difficulties I'm finding is the "You could...." phenomenon. Because the possibilities are so numerous and varied. I guess if what a musician is doing consists of improvising grooves, it's close to perfect.
It's the approach to making tracker style accessible effects in an advanced sequencer idea taking out the tracker data entry for a direct proprietary method of input.
hi there, thanks for the vidéo, I'm hesitating to take this one on 2nd hand for quite cheap.. But, i have a question, is there's any sort of "song mode" By that i mean, can i make a pattern selection, to be played in the order of my chosing and just press play, and have all those patern played one after another until the end ? Like i can do with the Or is it just sort of a "performance only song mode" ? Where i have to manually pass from a patern to another ? Hope my questions are clear :D Thanks in advance.
One thing I've found with using the supplied sample packs, it's safe to load folders of kicks/snares/hihats. However the acoustic and more melodic stuff are longer samples that often have long decays. It is a much better workflow to select individual samples for melodic stuff and avoid loading entire folders
Just got mine, still trying to wrap my head around the worlflow. The whole, Sample/folder workflow. The user experience when it comes to loading samples is pretty.... not good. I'm rotating the knob to go through the samples, but then trying to use my other hand to hit one of the buttons above the knob to preview the sample. Then when i get a sample i want to load, i hit load sample then instantly have to create a folder, once i have the folder, it loads there. Theres a back button but that doest go back out of a folder, it goes back out of the menu. But i keep hitting it cause it says BACK, why wouldnt I. Navigation is pretty raw there. The touch buttons suck! Was the worst idea by far. Dont get me wrong, lots to love when you actually have a pattern set up but getting there is really a pain. I get why most of the videos i watched before buying this really glossed over that part of the experience and skip to the PERFORM functionality which is the best. I dont remember anyone in a video entering notes with the piano, or doing anything related to loading samples or making a sequence. I still had to pull the trigger and find out for myself and I'm always right, what the videos gloss over is usually not the greatest but when you have a groovebox and you gloss over sample navigation and pattern-making, kinda makes you wonder. I'm sure firmwares will improve this just like the tracker but once again, it hurts to be first.
One thing I discovered is that you can click in the encoder you use for scrolling the samples to trigger the sample as well, instead of using the preview button above it.
@@GlitchWolf I put it back in the box. Can you preview samples while the track is running? That was a big issue for me. Stopping the music to hear new samples. Maybe “view” let’s you preview while it’s running. Just had to put it away for a bit and dig into the tracker some more.
@@GlitchWolf No one place is perfect, but at least in the USA there is a chance for instance, at Moog, that a Black person is getting paid a living wage with benefits in marketing or industrial design...
I’ve used every groovebox/arranger on the market in the last two decades and while it’s not perfect, the Play is hands down my favorite. The flow of just dropping samples wherever you want, tweaking them with a touch of a finger, copy pasting them with a longer press, and then flipping over to performance mode to chop em/stutter them is incredible. The melodic keyboard needs a LOT of work, there are some kinks in the live record mode but I have faith they will fix with updates. For pure, fun beat/melody experimentation, this is an amazing device. Lovely MIDI sequencing as well.
It sound naff though. Softer than Novation. Lighter than a soft synth. Very digital.
@@chrisolley2762 it sounds like whatever you feed it. I don’t notice any change dynamically in sound quality on actual samples I’ve loaded in from warmer/fatter sources. This isn’t a sound engine, it’s a sample player. It’s only as warm/thick as what you load into it.
I’m just getting into these types of devices . Can the beats you create on this be imported into a daw? I would have assumed so but I saw someone comment saying this wasn’t possible?
Great stuff! Regards to Fess! Thank you for making this!
Thank you for going so deeply into this selection. It's a tremendous device.
One of the difficulties I'm finding is the "You could...." phenomenon. Because the possibilities are so numerous and varied.
I guess if what a musician is doing consists of improvising grooves, it's close to perfect.
This thing looks fun AF!
Love those kickdrum sounds effects, etc..
Great !! You’re cunningly making us understand and want to own this machine 😀 Thanks 🙏 !!!
Thanks for another great video. Cheers!
Looks Fun ! :D
So, what can it do compared to the Tracker? You can make beats and use perform mode for effects? I’m still trying to wrap my mind around this one 🙃
It's the approach to making tracker style accessible effects in an advanced sequencer idea taking out the tracker data entry for a direct proprietary method of input.
They make a fantastic pair.
hi there, thanks for the vidéo,
I'm hesitating to take this one on 2nd hand for quite cheap..
But, i have a question, is there's any sort of "song mode"
By that i mean, can i make a pattern selection, to be played in the order of my chosing and just press play, and have all those patern played one after another until the end ? Like i can do with the
Or is it just sort of a "performance only song mode" ? Where i have to manually pass from a patern to another ?
Hope my questions are clear :D
Thanks in advance.
Got one but honestly memory per project is way too small a few samples and you are done....
Any way to turn it around? I am a newbie on this matter
Youre using 2 min samples?
@@atetraxx not at all try by yourself you LL see that a few samples can fill the project memory fast
One thing I've found with using the supplied sample packs, it's safe to load folders of kicks/snares/hihats. However the acoustic and more melodic stuff are longer samples that often have long decays. It is a much better workflow to select individual samples for melodic stuff and avoid loading entire folders
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Just got mine, still trying to wrap my head around the worlflow. The whole, Sample/folder workflow. The user experience when it comes to loading samples is pretty.... not good. I'm rotating the knob to go through the samples, but then trying to use my other hand to hit one of the buttons above the knob to preview the sample. Then when i get a sample i want to load, i hit load sample then instantly have to create a folder, once i have the folder, it loads there. Theres a back button but that doest go back out of a folder, it goes back out of the menu. But i keep hitting it cause it says BACK, why wouldnt I. Navigation is pretty raw there. The touch buttons suck! Was the worst idea by far. Dont get me wrong, lots to love when you actually have a pattern set up but getting there is really a pain. I get why most of the videos i watched before buying this really glossed over that part of the experience and skip to the PERFORM functionality which is the best. I dont remember anyone in a video entering notes with the piano, or doing anything related to loading samples or making a sequence. I still had to pull the trigger and find out for myself and I'm always right, what the videos gloss over is usually not the greatest but when you have a groovebox and you gloss over sample navigation and pattern-making, kinda makes you wonder. I'm sure firmwares will improve this just like the tracker but once again, it hurts to be first.
One thing I discovered is that you can click in the encoder you use for scrolling the samples to trigger the sample as well, instead of using the preview button above it.
@@GlitchWolf I put it back in the box. Can you preview samples while the track is running? That was a big issue for me. Stopping the music to hear new samples. Maybe “view” let’s you preview while it’s running. Just had to put it away for a bit and dig into the tracker some more.
With a sampler it would be perfect.
does seem decent but i'll probably wait for it to come down in price due to poor sales
Black people don't need to be messing with Polish equipment. 👀
Hope you are not buying anything made in the USA as well.
@@GlitchWolf No one place is perfect, but at least in the USA there is a chance for instance, at Moog, that a Black person is getting paid a living wage with benefits in marketing or industrial design...
You win the prize for the most ignorant comment on youtube, congrats!
How can we turn the Polyend Play into a race issue? 😂🤡