Here’s how I do live recording on M8. I hope this helps someone:
Pick your midi channel for live recording in Midi Settings > Rec. Note Chan. Default is channel 9.
Make sure your Push or other midi controller is sending notes on that channel (Ableton: MIDI To: M8, Ch. 9). Depending on your instrument, pick what you want for Rec. Velocity and Rec. Delay/Kill.
Go to the chain you want to record into and put in the phrases you want to record into.
If you want to pre-select the instrument, go right to the instrument screen and pick the Inst. number you want (opt+left/right).
On the phrase screen, make sure the cursor is in the note column.
You’re ready to record. When paused, you’ll enter notes for whatever line is selected. When playing, you’re record notes live for the entire phrase. Press play for just that phrase, shift+play to play the whole thing and record through.
I think this is complete. Like most things on M8, it’s gets very fast once you’ve done it a time or three. Anyone with a more streamlined method, please share!
Do you mean like playing a sliced sample as a drumkit or playing the hits with pitch? Should work either way, I’d guess. It’s just midi notes at that point.
Seems to work for me. Given that it’s recording into a monophonic track, every new note would choke the previous one, as you would expect.
Thank you for this. What’s a bit weird is that I swear this is what I was doing last night!!! Maybe I just hit one of those classic Octatrack like moments when one random little accidental setting change kind of screwed everything up.
I seem to be getting a delay on powering up the M8 tracker and hearing a low volume , constant tone in the background (like ground noise hum) and then it powers on. Is anybody having this issue? Happened twice in the past few days. It’s worrying me a bit that my device might be going defective.
Latest M8 track. Drums are samples, the rest is the M8’s internal synths.
Planning an all M8 record soon. Got about 40 songs to choose from. This may or may not wind up being one of them
This is super helpful. Is there a way to incorporate this when using the Sampler instrument so as to play individual slices of a sample? I tried but seemed only able to play pitched variations of the same slice. Looking forward to experimenting more today…
How have you set your Slice mode? I prefer to slice in the sampler editor, save the file, and use 01 FILE mode. Slices begin at C-1. For details, M8 manual pages 44-45, or youtube videos on sampler slicing, there are some really good ones.
Apologies, I don’t have a moment to write up something more detailed at the moment but I hope that can get you on the right track.
Hey, I was paging back through the topic and didn’t see an answer to your first question. As you may have found since you posted, phrases have a “Scale” menu above the “Groove” menu: go to the “Phrase” page and then shift+up twice. Hope that helps!
My challenge was that the MPC’s C1 was registering as C4 on M8. Able to play slices by adjusting MPC to C-2, etc. I bet there’s a way to transpose but this works in the interim.
I’ve been working on a couple of songs on the m8 and started to render them into stems. Is it normal that the rendering process takes really long? Like for a ~5 minute song it takes at least three hours to render all tracks. I don’t want to come across as complaining, I really dig the convenience of that feature, I’m just wondering if it’s supposed to take this long.
I’m guessing that it takes this long because I’m using a lot of samples in my songs, so the m8 has to both read and write from the SD card while rendering, but that’s just a guess.
