got my tracking!
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Haha yes, I guess a lot of us has been torn between M8/XY. Iām quite confident I made the right choice - even if the price was the same. Also, the M8 community is exceptional.
And thanks for the Deluge recommendation thatās a joker.
Will watch the videos carefully
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So Iām thinking thereās a bit of an overlap between OP devices & M8. I think the two might overlap just enough to possibly disrupt workflow. Iāve recently added Oxi One to my collection and I think thatās a better consideration over OP devices, especially now that the original Oxi can be had between $400-500 secondhand. And itās almost as portable as OP devices. What it adds for you is some great midi sequencing & generative capabilities that you can use to with M8 and create samples & loops. The old gen 4 tracks is plenty or even the multitrack setting gives you 8 tracks. Make something you like quickly on Oxi, sample either 1 track or all inside M8 as a loop or even live play.
Anyone use Oxi One like this already? Just got mine recently so didnāt get a chance to do this yet with M8
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Yes thatās a relevant point (overlap).
If I want the M8 to be the centrepiece, I have to learn every trick and USE the machine a lot. Too much overlap with a potential cousin (TE) might be confusingā¦.and unnecessary in a musical sense.
Havenāt looked at the Oxi before (just sold a Squarp Pyramid). It seems powerful- thank you 
One of the reasons I wanted the M8 was because of its strength as a portable standalone magic device. I should wait with another machine.
But its fun to discuss and I appreciate your input!
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You are right.
This is therapy.
Im really really looking forward to get isolated in the woods to dig deep with the M8. Thatās the whole purpose of this.
I was just seduced by the recent OP-1 Field discount 
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OK. Funny. For me sequencing is one the big strengths of the M8. I would never have thought combining with yet another sequencer.
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Thatās what I like to hear 
Only real overlap is the sampling and synths but even then, the synths on the OP-1F are pretty different and the effects are very different.
Iād say having a full keyboard with velocity out of the OP-1F makes it a great companion with the M8. You can send audio both ways, record to tape, process it with the OP-1Fs engines, bounce it back to M8 with the sampler. Use the M8s sequencer to make more complex arrangements with the OP-1Fs engines.
You have things like the Radio in the OP-1F which seems gimmicky but is honestly really cool to sample from.
The OP-XY has much more overlap with the M8 but I think the OP-1F couldnāt be more different than the M8 and are great devices to use together. One is more sequencer heavy and one is more live recording heavy. And they both pick up where the other falls short.
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New M8 model 2 owner here. Just got mine yesterday.
Why is FE the highest in mixer here? And how do I resample track 1 or all tracks (I know about render - but resampling a single track should be possible, right?). If I choose external instrument track 1 I hear nothing sampled.
FE is max for analog input. F0-FE is amplifying the input signal and you would probably not want to go above F0 often.
M8 does not currently support realtime resampling, in fact the delay effect is disabled during realtime rendering from the āRender Selection To Sampleā feature due to memory constraints. Is there a reason to want to reroute internal audio to an External Instrument input?
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Hey hey hey
I want to learn more about TABLES.
Ive watched the scottish guy, avrilcadabara and most everything else that has a decent amount of views on youtube.
Anything more amazing out there? Anything in the meetups?
Thank you! 92 hrs in 2.5 weeks holy moly. And i have a job. And a wife. And a kid. Ha:).
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Honestly tables confused me and I figured Iād have to be comfortable in my ignorance. As I got deeper into the M8 workflow after a few projects and wanted to do more complex modulation and tricks, I started experimenting with table commands and tick speeds here & there. Lot of happy accidents. After a while I noticed I wasnāt even thinking about it - I was just using tables.
TL;DR: Donāt worry about learning everything at once. Learn table commands as you need to and after a short while youāll know a bunch of stuff.
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Awesome @JackiesFridge I think thats the pathā¦learn by doing!
EDIT Im definitely using them already and I guess thats why I want more info!
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Start by using commands in your phrases.
Use tables when you need them to do a certain thing you canāt do by another method.
You can later use those same commands in tables, which are basically an extra sequencer that starts running each time the instrument is triggered giving you possibilities to do lots of interesting things.
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Hello. I recorded HardTechno live set with Dirtywave M8. Enjoy!
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Yay, itās arriving on Tuesday! 
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Anyone messing with the M8 headless on the brick and teensy? Just curious 
been lovin the W3 amp, whenever i want to make a quick little bassy loop all i need is a wave table synth and a heavy 808 and the W3 amp and weāre in business
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