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“Human heartbeats can become kick drums, birdsong and whale calls can become melodies”: Exploring the new industry of AI-integrated hardware effects pedals

AI is making the jump from software to hardware with a plethora of smart effects pedals. Is it just another gimmick or will AI-based hardware finally legitimise the controversial technology?

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“We hate AI slop. We don't want the fun to be taken out of music making": We tried to vibe code a custom looper pedal with Polyend Endless – here's what happened

Polyend founder Piotr Raczyński explains the tech behind the company's eye-catching effects pedal and its text-to-code assistant Playground

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“A sturdy, interesting and decent-sounding effects unit with tempo syncing and sequencing capabilities”: Polyend Mess review

Polyend turns its considerable hardware tracker skills to the world of pedal-based, sequenced multi-effects. An alluring combo, so how does it sound?

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“Create and share effects that can’t be found in another pedal”: Polyend releases the Endless, an open-source pedal that lets users create effects from prompts

It's ChatGPT in an aluminium stompbox format, with a growing pool of user-made effects, and coding and coding-free creating on offer

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“If you can describe the effect, you can make your own”: Polyend Endless is a customisable stompbox with a text-to-effect generator

NAMM 2026: Polyend’s new pedal can load custom effects coded in C++, or created with Polyend’s text-based Playground generator

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“It’s unfamiliar, intimidating, and seemingly impenetrable for producers raised on DAWs like Ableton Live - but it can unlock a whole new world of creativity”: I tried a music tracker and it rewired my brain (in a good way)

Beloved by artists from Aphex Twin to Deadmau5, trackers swap the trusty piano roll for a text-based, vertically-scrolling interface that looks like something out of The Matrix. Let's find out how deep the tracker rabbit hole goes

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“Not another multi-effect for your dentist,” but Polyend’s Mess looks like an FX sequencing powerhouse that you can really get your teeth into

Superbooth 25: It promises to be “built for adventurers in sound design”

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One of our favourite instruments of 2024 gets even better as Polyend adds an experimental sample engine to Synth

Superbooth 2025: “I’ve always admired how Andy Stott builds tracks from just a few carefully shaped samples and his minimal, textural approach influenced the design”

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"An excellent stomp box compressor that’s equally at home across a stereo mix": Polyend Press review

Combining a stomp box compressor and stereo mix compressor in one unit may seem slightly odd, but that’s exactly what this latest design does

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NAMM 2025: Feel the rhythm in your feet with Polyend Step, “the first fully programmable drum machine in guitar pedal form”

A step change for live performance and practice sessions?

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"A late contender for 2024’s best new synth": Polyend Synth review

With three synth layers, a variety of digital and virtual analogue engines and an innovative interface, Polyend's latest has a lot going for it

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“The compressor we always wanted but couldn’t find”: Polyend Press is stereo analogue hardware with the convenience of a plugin

Vintage rack-inspired compression with flexible sidechaining, in compact pedal format

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Superbooth 24: Stop the Press - Polyend has launched an analogue compressor pedal with plugin-style controls

Inspired by classic rackmount hardware, it comes with an external sidechain input

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Superbooth 2024 live: all the latest synth news from Berlin, as it happens

Knob tweakers, assemble! Big reveals from Korg, Moog, Polyend, Dreadbox and many more

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Tracker+ updates Polyend's flagship groovebox with 4 new synth engines, stereo sampling, an expanded sequencer and more

SUPERBOOTH 2024: This major upgrade makes Tracker+ a real challenger to Elektron's recently-updated Digitakt 2

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The most exciting new samplers, grooveboxes and drum machines for 2024

GEAR EXPO 2024: These all-in-one production wonders can handle beats, chords and melodies, and all without a computer in sight

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Polyend Play+ review

Polyend’s Play was a thing of wonder but it missed one thing: synthesis. Now the Play+ comes along, with synths and a physical upgrade offer for users of the original

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4 of the best new drum machines and grooveboxes in 2023

Roland's innovative, sequencer-focused SH-4d takes the crown this year, but who came runner up?

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Polyend’s Play+ introduces four synth engines, turning the sample and MIDI machine into a fully-fledged groovebox

Now you can furnish your beats with analogue-style and FM sounds, and there’s multitrack USB audio streaming, too

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Music makers: from pocket synths to standalone beat machines, we’ll help you make some noise

Ten of the best-designed audio devices and experimental instruments for music makers

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The hottest new samplers, grooveboxes and drum machines of 2023

GEAR EXPO 2023: Essential beat, groove and sample boxes coming out this year

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NAMM 2023: The best new music tech gear of the show

Our top synth, monitor, controller, interface, groovebox and plugin picks

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NAMM 2023: Polyend announces Tracker Mini, and it looks like a 'best in show' contender

Handheld video game-style device is smaller and lighter than the original Tracker but somehow boasts more features

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