Not sure whether I found it here or elsewhere, but here’s a list of shortcuts/combos.
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I think it’s because your using math! Try programming your long fade in the command column instead of a LFO . I’m getting faster result than my daw work for that type of stuff it’s way easier to lay it down just gotta put in the work over like 20 patterns ! 
Sure. I know what I’m asking can already be achieved in several ways.
What I was asking for, ultimately, was just a way to skip several operations - no matter how quick they are - in order to layer sample+FM.
I have several instruments that enable layering (e.g. MD, MnM), but the truth is I seldom layer sounds on them just because there are a couple of steps in the way - I’m probably a lazy ass ^^
On another machine I own (Nanobox Razzmatazz), there are always 3 layers at hand, and it makes it much easier and more fun to combine synth elements and samples.
I think immediacy is paramount for sound design.
maybe its just me but if i was a one man project i would be so tired of people endlessly requesting more features. i guess thats a byproduct of being such a responsive and on point developer but holy smokes, people just want more more more more more more more
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I think regardless you gotta setup two tracks Fm and your sample. Then you render that to a new sample ? Idk seems similar to a rytm feature to have drum synthesis and sample on the same track. This wouldn’t be possible with m8 it has seperate engines.
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Most immediate way that comes to mind would be copying a phrase, pasting it as new, then changing the instrument for each pattern. But even if I’m more fluent now in m8, I’m still a newbie ^^
@glooms do you see ways to use the same pattern with two instruments?
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Yes, inded, the Rytm has it as well. And that’s brilliant.
Oh OK. It wouldn’t be possible to combine them within a single instrument?
If yes, that’s sad.
(I have absolutely no clue about programming/hardware limitations)
Yep. You may be right.
But in the past I also had conversations with small manufacturers who were happy to receive suggestions/feature requests, and implemented some of my whims (Norand and Twisted Electrons, mainly).
If these endless requests are a nuisance for @trash80, I trust he will just ignore them and go on with his life.
I think you can achieve that with a MIDI instrument, as suggested above by @license
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No it would be possible to combine your chosen sample and the fm engine of you render it to a new sample then you can free up tracks you can keep doing this as much as you want ! Like I don’t have a machinedrum so I stacked like 4 tracks of MD one shots and rendered it and did this for all my hits until it sounded more like real powerhouse MD idm stuff ! This might help . It’s really fast ! Just know you have one engine at a time but you can sample and combination of tracks at any length you want and render that to a new one shot or loop . I render all 8 rows of my chorus in a song and bring it back in as one track as slices and then I’m able to edit my track with sampler parameters and make new Fx and transitions and repeats and all sorts of edits.
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Oh OK, this I knew about. But thanks anyway
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I’m going to have to jam on my M8 tonight and see what I can come up with I’m positive I’ve done this before just can’t think of how I use multiple patterns on the same instrument.
I mean one example is you setup your drum loop slices as a template / I just quickly lay down two patterns worth of notes and then I have a template for multiple drum loops. Ahaha that was the easier way to answer I’ll look for the hard answer all day and when I get on my M8 later ! It’s M8 + syntakt time after work ! Then I’m excited to run Digitone into syntakt into m8 and also use my Korg emx and a sorta ghetto idm machinedrum monomachine setup
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I have a lot of fun with the M8 standalone, still discovering it but I like the sound and the tracker paradigm, and @trash80 did some awesome work on the last updates, I’m very impressed.
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But yeah I find it just as easy to setup two tracks one sample engine one Fm engine and blend them together and control them separately. The sampler on M8 is way better than the sample engine on rytm or Atleast the mki. Haven’t used mk2. But I sold it and got the syntakt but I perfer to have my tracks seperate for some reason lol and I typically just use drum sampels and vocal sampels and use my own synthesis and don’t sampel my synths very often but play them with m8 as they are on with midi tracks.
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Every update !
I really need to learn all the new functions I’m still a RMX noob ahhh it’s such a perfect command for idm programming I’m lazy !
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I actually did my homework and watched all the Meetup vids. A good way to learn/refresh memory, I found.
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I really need to dive more into generative sequencing on the M8 ! It’s really capable of some crazy high grade idm/glitch programing without putting much work in! Also need to write more songs in 7/4 with hop command it gets pretty easy to use time signatures in m8 without the groove command. I prefer not using the groove command for 7/4 - 5/4 because it messes with your break loop timing ! Also using the scale modes will mess up the notes you choose for your slices in the sampler engine . A fix for this is to prepare a break in chromatic mode then copy and paste those patterns and you can force the notes to stay there in your selected scale mode.
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I’m on it ! Ahaha I hope you enjoyed those glooms tracks in the ealier meetups ! But yeah we had a non meetup sorta overview one time and trash80 was making insane generative idm breakcore to be funny but me and @pselodux and bryface thought it was the most epic sounding stuff ! Ahaha wish I screen recorded that for reference!
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I’d love to hear that
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pidgeo your the best ! Lol it wasn’t recorded but I think I could figure it out eventually and make some sort of M8 idm generative tutorial !
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