Polyend’s Wondrous Hardware Tracker
I used to dislike trackers. Now I have a crush on one. 🙂
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@microwavedhotdog69
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
BOMBACLOT PUSSY
@Jin-Hu
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Damn that’s helpful, thanks Benn
@Spongman
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
"6 minutes, Doug E. Fresh, you're on" – Slick Rick, 1985
fuck me, i'm old.
@royaltonestudio
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
I guess Canada is in North America, but yeah Venetian Snares, Aaron Funk is Canadian, cool video!
@JINX_ZIRS
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
I really want to import my own field recordings and the radio tops it off
@JINX_ZIRS
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
This reminds me of iDensity mixed with tracker damn ❤
@vishnudh1216
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Not a big fan of Polyend..love Benn
@mkiemkie
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Very interesting explanation of the demo scene, trackers etc.!
What is the name of the demo you show at 3:20?
@JeffreyFournier
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Weird to watch this now and hear sports radio from the beginning of the pandemic.
@somedude3443
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
33:02 Ah, so this is how they made the music for Crazy Bus…
@Victinfien
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
This is one of the best demos of this I've seen, def gonna get the new tracker+
@9asphoppeR
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
In 2024, I spent 30 minutes watching this man create the music to a new level in the Xmen Sega game I thought I had left in the 90s. It's been over 30 years. I will never forgive you, Benathan.
@julesdrums6167
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Did u just starting glitching at 13:10 or was it a meta Easter egg re sampling and looping
@julesdrums6167
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Just got this in the mail. I’m a drummer by trade so this is whole new territory, but I’m stoked. I also got a Roland tr-6s and Arturia minibrute so shit is about to get weirrrd
@mygzplays
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
You and I are like WHAT?
@pmtoner9852
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Informative and entertaining. Thanks
@QuantizStudioRecords
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
I work exactly in this form in 1996-2000 under MS-DOS Mode….in the program called Impulse Tracker…an program for electronic music! I like that! ❤
@emvyventi5580
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Impulse Tracker!,,,
@LaurentDiscShowMan
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Very good cheer with joy… Find out well about the things that I am explaining to you, the Evolution of the Musical matter of devices… the latest MIDIS Configurations… the Direct Sessions… the latest Musical Interpretation… etc.. etc .
@johnrobb3275
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
……………………….. dark matter, dark energy? …….like that stuff is real information? ……..thanks for the real tips on Tracker though …..Benn is far more educational than his sponsor!
@seazenbones6945
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
God, I thought you were going full crazy conspiracy for a moment. Curiosity Stream is OK though 😅
@ZombieLincoln666
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Nice shirt lol. Fits with the 90’s theme
@remyvegamedia
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Man. You and a few peoples' videos got me SO HYPED on this Polyend Tracker. I started researching it with absolutely no intention to want to buy one. It was just by chance because I saw a giveaway and then son Jonwayne producing hip hop on this. Long story short, something about this just seems so WEIRD but makes a LOT of sense. Thanks for the videos, man. Very inspiring.
@digitalbeat666
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
I have made tracker music for 30 years
@elmowilcox
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
“…a tantalizing amount of time…” Dude I fuckin love you 😂😂😂
@MrMarcLaflamme
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
2:20 Loved how you chose Dead Lock in the screenshot of FT. Phenomenal song… I think Elwood was around 15 or 16 when he did that which still astounds me to this day.
@ronburgundy192
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
This video seems to be more about Benn talking and being on camera than why we came here. Sad. I tuned out after five minutes of him talking. We want to see the visuals of the products. That's it. Yes you are famous and rich and blah blah blah. But, that is not why I'm here. I clicked this video based on the title.
@Keilnoth
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Ordered my Polyend Tracker today. I tried Renoise and love it. It's just fun. But I prefer to stay away from my computer as I already stand in front of it all day. Hopefully it's good!
@mattrenton
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
I brought a Polyend Tracker, and instantly went "Ohhwhathaveidone…" but ohhh I love it to bits, i have a portable power bank, speaker UDG hard case and can take it anywhere I go. I cant play a keyboard for toffee, so this is perfect for helping me along.
@andycordy5190
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Firstly, thank you for the history lesson. I had a totally skewed idea of what a tracker was, thinking it was all about numerical input and nerdy lists. I am not an IDM artist and I do not have attention deficiency or obsessive compulsive tendencies rather I am butterfly's minded and untidy. Startlingly, what you show me here is a musical instrument with strikingly powerful capabilities which I would have completely overlooked were it not for the work you have done on the Polyend Play.
@alexanderzerka8477
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
This feels like watching a computer user in desperate need of discovering the PgUp/PgDn and Home/End keys. Aren't there keyboard shortcuts like those for the Tracker?
@StarDogChamp
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Your sample pack is no longer included in the new Trackers. Are the few samples that are included with your songs the totality of samples in the pack? If not is there a way to get your sample pack? Do you have any recommendations of where I can get some great sample packs. Thanks! 🙂
@logancoats
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Intro had me dying
@christopherkennedy314
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Yeah thanks for a great video on the Polyend Tracker. Makes more sence now. Great unit.
@neoncyber2001
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
I started with ModPlug Tracker… Currently using ReNoise. Give it a try if the traditional DAW workflow is not for you.
@shayneoneill1506
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Trackers where my way into music on anything that wasnt a guitar in the 90s. Digitracker on a 486 scrapped together from parts and a Gravis Ultrasound card, and holy shit did we push that fucker to the edge. In our shitful sharehouse studio featuring a 4 track tape recorder, a casio organ, a bunch of guitar amps and digitracker we where creating our own demented take on trip-hop and I swear to god we where making what the kids now call "Trap" beats back in the mid 90s, and we didnt really know what to call it, but we'd funble together backyard gigs with these contraptions and everyone would turn up and seem to enjoy it. Retrospectively it was pretty spazzy but at the time it was great. We tried to do drum and bass stuff too, but our stuff was trash so we gave up and went with what we know. Ah I miss those days. Get off my lawn.
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