It’s a small world. Thanks for the input, actually one of my friends used to use trackers back in the early 90s and he also felt the same way as you. He always said trackers just clicked with him right from the start. Well, let’s see. 
I had some spare time today (the whole day tbh) and having a blast learning that thing.
It reminded me when I first learned the digitakt lol.
I really had problems with copy and paste and was so scared with Func+Clear like I was defusing a bomb .
Muscle memory will come I am sure.
But it’s really nice and thought out!
Now I need to learn how to make Melodies and chords efficient in a tracker 
Does anybody know if it is possible to save the instrument pool?
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Copy and paste is the key !
I also spent a few hours on it today.
The mixing and exporting process is also surprisingly efficient and easy, it really makes a difference.
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The instrument pool is part of the project and should be saved with it.
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Thank you! I mean specific to save it like a kit and recall it in another project (:
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Copy/paste works with instruments in Instrument Pool view, so it should be possible to copy them all and paste them into the Instrument Pool in another project. I have not done this myself, though. Another option is to save the instruments you want globally to /Instruments, and then load them where you want in the other project.
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Could save a template with your preferred instruments in the pool as well.
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This is also something i really want, so with that, you can create your own sample (or synth) kits and just exchange them easily (if you follow static instrument numbering), same like on the MPC or Maschine.
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Got mine and let it fully charge before turning on (took quite a while), totally worth it, the battery life is crazy. Threw some samples on it and the newest beta firmware. Screwed around relearning some of it for 2 hours and it’s still at 98%.
It’s so much better now. One reason is there are so many resources now to learn this thing. When I first got it in 2022, it was real new and there was just a lot to hunt down. It also didn’t have nearly the amount of functionality. Now I can just mount it to the laptop and drop files on it. Just amazing.
I also really like the new form factor of it too. Just love everything about it now. Everything has always been so well thought out but it’s just on another level with the new hardware and all the firmware upgrades.
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Was FW 6.3 officially released or is it still in beta?
EDIT: I checked on Github and it doesn’t seem to be officially out yet
Beta. Still fixing older bugs
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Direct access to the SD card via USB??
Seriously, are we even allowed to use this machine or is that cheating?
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Also, 24-bit streaming over usb for all 8 tracks, and all three return tracks.
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Wow, I had missed that part!
(Somehow I don’t see the beta testing stream anymore on Discord)
So it means you can record all the tracks separately in real-time on say, Live, Cubase, etc.?
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I don’t use a DAW (or even render stems, really) but I am excited for this because it means I can swap out M8’s send effects (which are fine, but fixed) using something as simple as an iPhone (for which I have loads of inexpensive and intriguing FX apps).
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Yes 
mindblown how good it works.
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Wow!
I’m trying to figure out the implications…
If anything, I would rather use hardware FX (e.g. Eventide Space/Timefactor or Korg NTS-3) if i can separate tracks via a phone.
Ideally it would be great to create some kind of bus to be able to choose which tracks to route to external FX. But I guess that’s not really possible. Or is it?
That’s not currently possible on M8. You can do it with the right kind of USB audio host (a computer, tablet, or mixer, for example) but there will be latency. Hardware FX are, for the most part, some controls wrapped around a processor anyway. I view my iOS apps as a bulwark against pedal GAS.
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Hm, thanks. Food for thought.
I’m not a big fan of phone/iPad apps, but this would probably be more convenient, indeed.
EDIT: for example, it would be great to take advantage of the internal FX tracks (delay, mfx and reverb) by turning down their internal processing and have them send clean signal instead.