Dont go wrong, take an m8… try it with an headless setup if really not sure… in your pocket you’ll have an fm synth with a quite elegant implementation, mutable instruments braids, chiptune synth, very honorable sampler that sample, all your sample library( sd card a la ot) powerful internal and poly midi sequencer with very rare capabilities (tables) , reverb, delay chorus, amp sim , mixer with audio input (2 mono or 1 stereo) sendable to fx, 10 track mixer, scale and transposition support (including custom) ( in a so efficient way that youll have hard time to found better device to realise better melody with so little efforts ( betwen’ the way scale ,transposition and cloning is implented) its really portable, not like all recomendation up. Meaning it can go right in your edc, everyday, everywhere, everynight. Making it the perfect device with a life not about music, and in the struggle to find time for it…with only one usb cable it will do midi an audio with any ios device… touchosc will then give you controller for it on your iphone…or a moog model d ios… instant startup…
The ui is just so well thought and realised, comprehensive control, presentation, and combo among all pages. Its such an elegant device. You can connect it to a computee or a tv ( via a pc or raspberry) for more ergonomics at home.Support and communication wonderful.
Someone else on elektronauts say thats the sort of thing youll seen one time in one life, i think the same. I was part of the post beta preorder, don’t understand why people here seem to have spent one year before starting to understand.
Plus its only ONE MAN work (who i think was already responsable of the arduinoboy)
Plus bug correction, is sort of immediate, and firmware upgrade with new things come every two month or so…
Hard to justify to not at least spend some time with the headless version, dsc4 and a dualshock/xbox pad ( you can then configure excess button directly to combo, lovely)
If youll really try it, youll spend one day muscle memorizing the combo button, then around one week memorizing the command place in the command screen. Then youll disvover how quick and efficient writing music on it is. The note input method in no very different than on elektron in fact. You choose a step then a note… elektron are sort of trackers…
I see m8 as way more powerful than any elektron device taked alone…
Just one track of the 8 with fm instrument by ess:
Another track by grazcore m8 only
Another i like A lot
https://youtu.be/S3gAH9RsRKg?t=2697…
But load and loads of good tracks on the discord…
I hope that you start understand that with dirtywave « the off the studio making music » is not an « artificial construction » anymore, and that the m8 IS a full studio…
By the way, the discord community is great, more to my taste thats now here. The complete nature of m8 make that people spoke less about gear, more about music, tricks… they share complete songs as bundle that you can study, samples, themes…the fact that on this place the m8 is often the only device, or at least the principal in music creation process, even in studio, give comprehensive discutions. You wont have massive, serum, timefactor in it. But it save you time, and in the end, it make you remind and re realise that finally music is more about note and rhytm than about pure sound…
At the end, i will just add that this thing is a fuck you at all major cie. Surely it will evolve in a different way with the inevitable success and recognisation that will come, but for instance the transparency, honesty in devellopment, in effort… youll reward a guy for his passion and the love he give. How many time we were waiting for overbridge, trx b2… did you remind that the md or the octatrack were not developpable anymore said elektron,then seing alternative firmware with new instrument for md, or chance appearing on octatrack after years? ( clearly showing marketting bullshit…)
It also question what are really big brand do , when you see what only on man can do… remind me a lot of mutable for all this reasons… the m8 is a labor of love, and love is what youll received if you order it…
Finger crossed that the success dont make dirtywave explode, not that i am waiting for the next thing as i dont need anything anymore, but i dont want to see this gem disapear from the market, as i want one in my life till the end ( will purchase spare unit when money here, and too because i hop to soon « live » with two unit and a dj mixer, loading my own loops instead of tracks, for a compact efficient creative and original setup…
