polyend tracker review
Polyend Tracker Review: Powerful but Niche
Polyend's Tracker is a significant update to its powerful (if somewhat anachronistic) sample-based groovebox, the Tracker. What made the Tracker so unique, and also confounding, was that it was a tracker (small t), but in hardware form. Trackers were an early form of music-making software that emerged in the late '80s. They were initially used mainly for video game music but eventually found favor with a certain strain of electronic musicians, most famously Aphex Twin. They're very much a product of their time though, designed to work around the limitations of late 20th century personal computers like the Amiga.