Sample Start resolution is not super fine so you have to kinda force it if you want to get certain parts of a track and that results in a swing and judder that can be hard to get on trackers, for me.

This started on the Polyend Tracker (lol yes I know, another hardware tracker..). I wasn't super fond of it on there but then when I brought it to the m8 it came to life. [/note]

Since you also have both: Have you noticed that material you tend to make on the PT vs the M8 has an audibly different aesthetic?

jimmac wrote:

Hardware trackers ftw! Good beats.

Hardware trackers ftw!  They're basically the only thing I'm using to finish songs these days.  I don't think I've ever been this productive (musically)―although that also might have something to do with Weeklybeats.

Nice! The sound that comes in on beat 2 of the first bar fills me with nostalgia and I have no idea why (or for what, really. I guess I get a fuzzy image of something like playing Space Harrier in an arcade, but tbh I don't remember what that sounded like at all). Ending it with a spindown was a classy touch. :cool: [quote=note!]Sample Start resolution is not super fine so you have to kinda force it if you want to get certain parts of a track and that results in a swing and judder that can be hard to get on trackers, for me.[/quote] Hard agree! :P I try to STA-jump instead of chopping new samples if I can get away with it―but at 6 ticks per row, STA is sometimes just too coarse for precise cuts (and that [i]really[/i] got me a couple times this week). I suppose the smart thing to do would be to double the tempo/tick rate at the outset if it looks like there's going to be a lot of STA work. But the other side is that sometimes it results in syncopation I wouldn't have thought to try otherwise. Maybe that's the "swing and judder" you're talking about? [quote=note!]This started on the Polyend Tracker (lol yes I know, another hardware tracker..). I wasn't super fond of it on there but then when I brought it to the m8 it came to life. [/note] Since you also have both: Have you noticed that material you tend to make on the PT vs the M8 has an audibly different aesthetic? [quote=jimmac]Hardware trackers ftw! Good beats.[/quote] Hardware trackers ftw! They're basically the only thing I'm using to finish songs these days. I don't think I've ever been this productive (musically)―although that also might have something to do with Weeklybeats. :P