An Octatrack and eight Microfreaks, and you’re halfway there. 
I knew he was working on this but I didn’t realize my raw notes were quoted in the GitHub. They are a bit inaccurate and a bit incomplete. If anyone tries using the Move in this fashion and it’s not working out, try looking at my still-basic-but-better writeup in The M8 Companion just in case you hit one of my mistakes: 8 Interacting with other devices . When the Move integration matures I will mention it there also.
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I am not at all a fan of trackers but I don’t think of the M8 as a tracker; I think of it as chunks of Digitakt and Digitone in portable format with a modified UI (which I actually prefer in some respects, despite the much more modest real estate).
I think Tim is not at all interested right now in creating a larger box, and even headless is probably more of a pain than he expected and he is perhaps regretting that, so he is probably not even likely to look kindly on licensing opportunities, because he surely would end up having to do support for something he doesn’t really care about in the first place. Possibly it would be as successful as M8. But not everything that is possible needs to happen.
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Plus the UI, the button layout, and the software all work together to make the M8 experience so good. Change any one of those and it wouldn’t work.
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I think I’ve misunderstood what the M8 is. Interesting.
Still, I will dream
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The ideas of the M8 are certainly not copyright (many of them are present in the decades-old LSDJ software). So it is not beyond reason that someone will feel inspired enough to create something similar with more knobs and pads. But if you don’t want to wait, you should definitely check out the M8 itself.
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