r/Dirtywave

I really want to buy a m8 during the next round of sales but I'm worried I'm going to miss the window. I've been doing some research on running a headless version of the m8 on an RG35XX Pro. I'm not a tech person but it seems pretty straightforward.

Is there a way to actually install the m8 software onto the RG35 without using a Teensy 4.1? I have a feeling that having a dongle hanging off the device will get really annoying.

I just bought a teensy and RG35 off amazon and am pretty excited to finally start making some music again. I used renoise for a long time but really want to play with the synth engines in the m8.

Also, is there a way to tip dirtywave? I think it's crazy that they are giving out their software for free.

any body got any experience making Trap, or 808 heavy hip hop on the M8? looked online and there’s isn’t much on it

Hey all,

Just wanted to make a post mentioning an idea that I think would make writing music on the M8 a lot more intuitive. I think that adding a view where you can play your song watching all the notes go by on 4 (or more) tracks simultaneously would be very helpful. Basically I'm suggesting a view where you watch your song play like a traditional tracker program in which you can see all the notes playing together on all the tracks at once. I think this would make it more enjoyable & easier to see what each track is doing in relation to each other, because having to flip between the tracks can get cumbersome, even with all of the excellent shortcuts that help you do it quickly. I also think it would make writing music in weird time signatures more enjoyable, also.

Here are some details about what I'm suggesting:

• I specifically want a view where I can start playing the song, and it shows the notes & their instruments of 4 tracks playing in real time, like a traditional tracker does. You can play the whole song in this view, not just one chain or phrase that loops
  • You could make it to where if you select a section of the song and start playing it on loop, then go to this view to see that section on an individual note basis and get the best of both worlds as it still keeps looping.)
• There is enough space on the screen to where you can display at least 4 tracks of notes all at once with their assigned instruments. 6 or 8 tracks would be awesome but idk how doable that is.
  • I only care about the note and instrument being displayed for each track. I don't think that FX need to be shown in this view because of screen space limitations.
  • To get around the annoyance of only being able to see 4 tracks, you could make each track selectable at the top of this view, and you could change which of your 8 tracks are being shown at once. For example, you could set it to see tracks 1, 2, 6, and 8 in that order if you wanted to see how those tracks are working together.
• Tables are obviously a big thing on the M8, and I don't think that they need to be visible at all in this view, either. The scope of that would be too detailed for what this view would be capable of showing.
• You could still show phrase and chain information for each track on this view.
  • You could see what chain you're in via the normal indicator that shows along the left side of the screen like in the song view. You could see what phrase each track is playing displayed either above or below the track number at the top of this view.
• Not sure exactly of what the best way to get to this view would be.
  • EDIT: u/overand suggested an excellent place (in my opinion) to place this view. On the M8, you can press all 4 direction buttons at once together to go to the multi-scope view. You could place this note view right after that screen. Just press all 4 direction buttons together again on the multi-scope view screen to get to the note view.
    • Even though this would make the note view screen kinda hidden on the M8, it would mean that you could easily access it from anywhere in the UI. Let's say you're working on a phrase in context of your song, for example. You could quickly move between the phrase editing and note view screens to check out how your phrase is jiving with the song as you iterate on it.

Discussion about this idea is welcome and whether or not you'd want it 👍 I think it would make writing weird time signature/progressive music a lot more enjoyable on the M8 🤷‍♂️

hello, looking to get a headless but i seem to find different preferred handhelds, trimui brick, hammer, anbernic 40xxv etc. I've seen low latency as an issue, amongst others. Is there a kind one beats all?

I've googled quite a lot but there doesn't seem to be any consensus.

Thanks for any help.

On top of all its loveIy features, I really dig that even the random name generator sparks inspiration.

New WB using only PC-98 samples.

choirpractice. enjoyed mangling a sample of the Mormon tabernacle choir. i grabbed the sample over usb so there's some distorted sound. i was too far along to retry at that point, so it stands as is. made with dirtywave m8 model 2.