The Ultimate Soundtracker, released in 1987, is a music production program for the Commodore Amiga computer. It pioneered a genre of lightweight, text-based music software called "trackers". Trackers were some of the earliest music production programs available to hobbyists, and lent themselves well to sample-based music. The Commodore Amiga series of computers, by far the most accessible vehicle for music production at the time, had very limited storage capacity and RAM, leading to people using short samples and low sample rates, giving a distinct lo-fi sound to music produced this way. These programs were instrumental to the early jungle, house, and hardcore scenes. Being a big fan of these genres, I quickly became interested in making music this way. However, I wasn't prepared to buy a 30 year old vintage computer setup. The Polyend Tracker brings this style of music production to the modern era, in a convenient, portable tablet-style package. Combining the new with the old, it retains the text-based interface and limit of 8 channels, but brings modern storage, effects, I/O, MIDI, CV, wavetables, and many other features. While there was a bit of a learning curve, there were many helpful resources online to learn the ropes. Before long, I fell in love with the workflow and made a few basic songs. After seeing others decorating their Polyend tracker faceplates, I was immediately inspired to dress mine up as well. Because and I was using it to make late 80s/early 90s style rave music with it, I wanted to invoke an 80s theme. Choosing an 80s style was easy for me, as I am a huge fan of the Memphis Group and the design movement that they started. After exploring different ideas for printing and applying graphics, I stumbled on a website selling custom vinyl wallpaper. Conveniently, their sample swatches were affordable and big enough to make two tracker skins each. I found a couple of great user-uploaded Memphis-inspired designs and ordered them. After choosing my favorite of the two and deciding the best area of the swatch to use for the skin, I removed the faceplate from the tracker and applied the skin to it. After trimming the vinyl up to all the holes and edges, I felt it looked a bit ragged, as the vinyl was only colored on the surface, and cutting it had revealed the white layer underneath. I remedied this by drawing in some borders for each hole with a marker and added some additional accent strokes as I saw fit. Overall, I'm extremely satisfied with the end results! I think the design represents my personality, sense of style, and the type of music that I want to make with the device way more than the admittedly sleek stock appearance. As a bonus, the wallpaper had a subtle texture, which hides fingerprints. I will definitely be using this technique again for future builds.