Projects - Polyend Tracker Mini Manual

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Polyend Tracker Mini Manual

Projects

Projects are the highest order structural
element in Tracker Mini. A project contains all
the elements of a full track. Think of each
project as a fully arranged song for an album
or a song for live set. Tracker Mini auto saves
projects which are stored on the installed Micro
SD Card. Although the card itself can contain
more, Tracker Mini will have up to 100 projects
visible and accessible. A project should be
opened for playback and editing. New projects
can also be created from scratch. Each project
contains a maximum of 255 patterns across 8
tracks. While patterns are the musical
composition functions, some elements, such
as the 48 available instruments are managed
at project level, and hence accessible to all
patterns. Projects are structural and
organisational functions more so than part of
the creative environment but nevertheless
serve an important purpose in the Tracker Mini
workflow. Tracker Mini has an extended project
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memory for audio samples. This holds almost 12
minutes of mic recorded audio as standard
although this may vary depending on the audio
quality and format. Samples are stored on the
Micro SD Card but can be also are held in the
Tracker Mini on board sample pool where
samples effectively become instruments.
Projects have an instrument pool populated with
samples or instruments to be available when
creating steps. This is prerequisite to creating
sequences. This section covers the general
project management in Tracker Mini and it's SD
card plus some key specific project level
functions such as tempo.
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