CONTACT WHO: Polyend
WEB: polyend.com
KEY FEATURES Sample and MIDI groovebox
I/O: USB (for power/MIDI), MIDI in and out (via included adapters), 3.5mm stereo main out (stereo splitter included), SD card
Although it might be a bit premature to call something released just two years ago a cult classic, Polyend’s esoteric Tracker is certainly on course to earn the title.Taking cues from software trackers, Polyend’s performance sampler is a bit of an oddity, but if the legions of enthusiastic YouTube videos and forum comments are anything to go by it’s certainly found a dedicated following. Play, the company’s keenly awaited follow-up, is more of a conventional device than Tracker–for one thing its sequencer runs from left to right, rather than top to bottom –but it still inherits a healthy portion of its predecessor’s leftfield creativity.
This is a sample-based groovebox and MIDI sequencer. The unit itself is the exact same size as Tracker, roughly 30 x 20cm and just over 3cm deep, making it slim and highly portable. As with that predecessor, Play has a single USB port on the rear used both for power – via an included adapter–and connection to a
