Community firmware for the original Polyend Tracker
New brains for your tracker. Pick one, flash it, make noise.
OpenTracker 3 comes in four flavours: the same firmware with a different set of synths and effects. Only one image is installed at a time; switch whenever you like, your projects stay on the card.
Concrete, strobes and a kick that doesn't stop: drums, acid, drive and a tempo-synced echo.
Broken grids and bent FM: wavetables, four-operator FM, drums and acid.
Warm and analog in style: poly pads, mono basses, duophonic leads and tape.
Blips, buzz and fast arps: four chip-style synths, a chip DAC on the mix and a tempo-synced echo.
Compare the four images and find the one with the synths you want →
Stable 2.x line
One image with all of the 2.x line: 16 tracks, five synth engines (ACD, FAT, VAP, WTFM, PERC), stereo samples, Mini-format projects, USB Storage mode, live resampling, streaming from the card and colour themes. Use this one for real work.
One patch is a whole kit: kick, snare, clap, three toms, rim, cowbell, hats, crash and ride, each drum with three Characters.
Drive and bitcrush on the whole mix: four shapers, bits, sample rate, tone.
A dub echo locked to the song tempo, with ping-pong and duck.
ACD, FAT, JU6 and D-Type for basses, leads and chords.
Two-operator wavetable FM with three feedback paths: e-pianos, bells, mallets.
Four operators, 8 algorithms, an envelope per operator.
A drum machine with one drum per note and tunable toms.
A stereo chorus and a tape stage on the whole mix.
Two layers per note, each with its own filters and envelopes; Touch and Ribbon on the macros.
Duophonic: two oscillators, hard sync, ring mod, sample & hold.
Three oscillators into a filter that whistles on its own.
A poly with a built-in stereo chorus, saved in every patch.
Three oscillators with ring, sync and the combined waves into a 12 dB multimode filter: leads, basses, chords.
Pulse with sweep, a 4-bit wave or noise, one channel per patch, or a whole drum kit by note.
Buzz tones from polynomial counters, and four-operator FM with looping envelopes.
The mix through a small chip's output: bits, sample rate, uneven DAC steps and a speaker.
We plan to build the simulator for the web, so you can play with each image in your browser before you flash it.
.ptf file to /Firmware on the card. Keep the file name
exactly as it is: the updater only takes names of 24 characters.Patches folder from the patch zip to the root of the card, and merge
it with what is there./Firmware and
install it the same way, from the update menu./Firmware/ot_restore.txt and power-cycle. OpenTracker hands over to the updater
and installs it..ptf from /Firmware, so keep only the image you want,
plus stock, in that folder.Techno, IDM, Classic or Retro for the 3.0 preview, or 2.2.4 for real work.
Choose an image/Firmware, keep the name, then Config > Firmware update.
Our own patches for every synth, and the 2.x manual.
Patches and manualNot affiliated with Polyend. OpenTracker is made by its community. It is not endorsed or supported by Polyend. The Polyend Tracker is the hardware it runs on.