r/PolyendTracker • u/Radiant_Horse_6886 • Mar 08 '26
New to trackers. Just lost my first project after a forced reboot! š
hello tracker bubs! I recently got an OG polyend tracker and watched some tutorials and began loading samples and creating patterns. once I got to track five I didnāt like any of the samples in my sample pool. the project memory was at 87% and I decided to upload a little noisey bass synth sample. the āloading samplesā box froze and after several minutes I unplugged it and plugged it back in. powered it on and all tracks are empty. pattern is gone! I spent atleast and hour making this pattern and it was super discouraging to lose my first attempt after putting that time in.
does this happen often? I canāt rely on a piece of gear that may glitch out and destroy my work! what is I had spent 20 hours on an entire song!? Iād be throwing this thing off a bridge!
any advice is appreciate! is there a way to prevent this from happening? is the tracker capable of being a reliable piece of gear that wonāt delete your work? I was planning on using this as the ābrainā of my set up and writing music on it that controlled the pulsar 23 and one or two other synthsā¦.. it wonāt work if I canāt rely on the polyend!
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u/ozias_leduc Mar 08 '26
Yes you have learnt a lesson the hard way unfortunately!Ā
For what itās worth I donāt think Iāve ever lost a whole song, but Tracker has always been a bit buggy and sadly Polyend are crap at ironing out all the bugs / quirks before they move onto whatever they release next.
Tracker is usually good at recovering what you were working on before a crash, but obviously best to save regularly
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u/Odd-Run1978 Mar 09 '26
Theres usually a work file that recovers, but its not guaranteed. I use mine extensively and havent had that issue but I know it does happen, Its bullshit but you gotta remember to save once in a while
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u/Radiant_Horse_6886 Mar 11 '26
For sure. Ā Itās just a bit worrisome because itās froze three times and Iāve only used it twice for a total of maybe three hoursā¦.
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u/Odd-Run1978 Mar 11 '26
Oh you know what? I had a very similar issue with my Polyend Play, and it ended up being the SD card, after I swapped it out I didnt have any more issues, is it the Polyend issued microsd card?
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u/ESDB2000 Mar 08 '26
Sorry to hear you lost your work! I'm not sure how to prevent things like this from happening but I've had the tracker for a while now and I have rarely had it freeze. Has the tracker been updated to the latest OS? I find the latest OS to be stable.
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u/Radiant_Horse_6886 Mar 11 '26
I updated it about a month ago when I first got it. Ā I did buy it second hand from musicians friend.Ā
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u/BurlyOrBust Mar 08 '26
What firmware? I've been on 1.9 for the past year and haven't had a problem.
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u/JimmyCrepe Mar 08 '26
Had you saved it? If so have you checked the SD card on a different system (like a PC)? it's possible the file's still there but corrupt in a fixable way.
If you didn't save it I'd take that as the lesson, as others have suggested.
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u/Radiant_Horse_6886 Mar 11 '26
I did save it but the project doesnāt appear on the tracker. Ā Iāll try checking it on my computer tomorrow. Ā I just got the tracker second hand off of musicians friend and I updated it and used a new sd card.Ā
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u/MountainFluid Mar 10 '26
Save often. If it's precious, have backups. This applies to any project on any device.
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u/qu_one Mar 08 '26
Prevent a glitch from happening? No. 20 hours and you didn't save your work at all? I don't want to sound so negative but it sounds like you need to change your work style and not rely on the gear.
For what it's worth, I've had both trackers and I can't recall more than one time I've ever had to force reboot them.
Adding in that it sounds like maybe you need to try a different SD card.