I’d vote for real-time punch-in fx “op-z style” before timestretching, myself.
but TS would be sick too of course 
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Not likely. It’s rather large and complicated to do so which is why it’s not too common on microcontrollers/devices with less resources… EG: Rubber band (open-source but large and GPL) and Zplane Elastique (what Ableton uses) libraries.
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This may be something M8 users can identify with…or not 
Got up way earlier than normal, so I fired up my eurorack for the first time in ages.
I was debating on selling a couple modules and doing a rethink on what is now a fairly unfocused setup. I tend to make small systems because I don’t enjoy hooking up too much gear at once. Just does my head in. At this point I sometimes use
Eurorack/Keystep Pro
Octatrack/EssenceFM
Model:Cycles (only)
Norand Mono/Octatrack
M8 (only)
Anyway, I came up with a simple ambient patch and decided to hold off on selling my two Cwejman modules I was undecided on. Wound up playing around on the eurorack rig for hours, spent too much time on Modular Grid trying to refocus the rack…like all day and while there were some lovely sounds, I didn’t get anything I’d release.
So just for grins, I picked up my M8 and had a fairly developed idea I really liked in like 20 minutes
Talk about bang for buck!
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Here is my Weekly Beats #1. The m8 is only doing midi, with a couple of channels out to the machinedrum, 2 to the Digitone, and one to the intellijel palette whose main voice is an angle grinder-> 100 grit. The palette and the Digitone are being mixed in an Octatrack, which does extra FX duty and was doing resampling which ended up not being used in the final track.
Lots of table modulation of CCs and a lot of using the 16n fader bank (remapped through the M8s brilliant midi control mapping UX) to drive things like delay feedback and the angle grinders cutoff freq. the M8 is so fucking legit.
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Yep, ure right…the loop markers thing was what kept messing me up. It works fine now. Thanks 4 the reply.
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These days I’m making music with the M8 and Polyend tracker and I’m enjoying a lot how they work together!
At the moment to connect them, due that this one uses jack-midi type A and the another one type B, I’m using a synth in the middle of the chain. (Polyend tracker as a master to my x0xb0x and its midi thru to the M8 tracker).
Is there another way to connect them?
Here an example using booth together
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Just use two adaptors and a normal midi cable.
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Or a polarity swapper on your TRS cable. You just need to flip the “left” and “right” channels of the cable. You can make your own easy, but something built for the purpose also works, like this from retro kits:
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What a good idea! Thanks @jemmons and @ghostly606!
another way to swap polarity https://i.imgur.com/FoD7R4t.jpg
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Oh man, I was struggling with this one too! Thanks! Thought it was because I was changing the save location or some other weird anomaly.
On a side note, and I’m sure this has been asked to death, so I apologize, but is there currently a way to create folders from M8 or does file structuring like that need to happen from a computer?
Dirty, messy little jam with the M8 and EssenceFM
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I’ve been playing with the headless version of M8 for the last few weeks and I think I’m in GASy love with the workflow. The ability to create named external midi instruments with predefined settings and CC settings is a killer feature for me.
Pity they’re so difficult to get hold of. In the mean time I have plans to try and build a portable headless device using a retro flag GPI 2 case. I don’t yet know if the internal USB port actually connects to the internal raspberry pi. If it doesn’t, my plans are foiled instantly 
. Also I have no idea about performance. Ive seen some folks have got headless working on Raspberry pis so it’s possible in theory. Lastly, I’d be trying to use Bluetooth midi through the pi compute 4. Dunno if that’s feasible.
Anyone tried something similar?
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What cables are you using to sample into the M8 or send sound out of it?
Will this do the trick?
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Yep, that’s what I use.
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those are great. I upgraded to the 1010 music cables, they essentially do the same thing. 3.5 mm Male to 6.35 mm Male Stereo Breakout Cable - 1010music LLC
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I use my M8 with beyerdynamic 770 headphones which is perfect, however I want a total portable setup for travel, sitting in fields, hotels etc and the beyerdynamics are kinda big and cumbersome.
Mackie MP240 earphones have caught my eye as they would fit snuggly into the M8 carry case, does any body happen to use these (are they any good) or any other options worth looking at?
I was really disappointed with these, not for the sound quality which seemed fine, but for the weird bulky leads. They don’t relax their shape and remain stiff, uneven and awkward, felt cheap for the price range.
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Do you get any static or crackling with the 770s? I know some headphone jacks need to get taped off or have an extender put on them.
For what it’s worth, I don’t get any static from the DT1770, though I’m not sure how similar the jacks are.
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