Very good tutorial. I wonder if anyone else jumped out of the chair as I did by the end of the video. I had my baby sleeping on another room and the background noise made me think she had woken up hahaha
You’re really good at explaining commands and value choices in a musical context - and that’s missing often in tutorials like this! I’ve learned a lot! Thanks! :)
I’ve often wondered how to create a generative music project. Thanks so much for explaining the basics and how amazing the M8 is for this specific genre.
Thanks so much! Just FYI: the note randomisation can now be done much easier with the command RNL. There's a follow up video I made on it. The "old" way still works though :-)
@@1wildrogue Legend! Yeah, I was just now watching the follow up... How bloody powerful is the RNL command?! I didn't realise this was a thing, just did a mad rush to update my M8, Deluge has been getting all the love lately 😅😬
This tutorial is fantastic! Really some great and fairly simple ideas to make generative music, been watching a lot of M8 videos waiting for mine in July and nothing really touched on this, so thanks!
I LOVE your videos. I watched this one several times and am almost able to duplicate what you showed here. I can't seem to find the PLY effect in the M8 or the manual. I thought maybe that has changed in the most recent update or, more likely, I'm just doing something wrong. Thanks again!
@@1wildrogue I thought that might be the case and will dig deeper. I'm still very new to the M8 and your videos are one of the reasons I ordered one. :)
You definitely found it by now but I think you made the same mistake as me and a lot of other people: you slept on the commands outside of sequencer FX. I assumed PLY and STA would have been in sequencer FX because that's where everything else I use even if in retrospect the "current instrument" section makes infinitely more sense for sampler parameters. It's a lot to get used to but once you do it's really cool having a command for basically every parameter. I've still barely started digging in to so much of it. I'm sure people are constantly coming up with uses for commands and tables that even Trash80 (the guy who made it if you didn't know) never considered.
I struggle to understand rnd and rnl commands. For example with line like that: C-3 64 80 VOL10 RNL0F I was expecting volume argument to be randomised from 0 to maximum (full range), but actually it is not happening.
I've been searching for an hour or so for someone who makes something other than chiptunes with the m8. I'm really into modulations and dirtier textures, so I was curious if a more gritty sound was possible with it.
So if you render down this song, every rendering will come out as a (slightly) different song, right? Make one track, render it 8 times for an album.... :D
Will these ever be available to purchase again, You think? I check dirty wave’s page every Monday and they’re always sold out, instantly..😒Guess, I’ll just have to wait for the next model/edition.
I pre-orded mine and got in on the 3rd go around and it took 4 months to get it. There are scalpers out there on eBay and Reverb, but I refused to support them.
13:00 - does it stay in rhythm even when the first step is skipped? Or if you add drums you will have to offset them too in order for the note to hit on the first step with the drums?
it's offset, but I'd rather not offset the drums just for this one synth. You can put the note on the first step, when you use RNL to change the pitch and not the pitch command.
Yeah, it's a bit of money. Considering how powerful the m8 is and that it's more or less a one man operation, you could argue it's actually priced reasonably when looking at the competition. And the existence of headless is pretty amazing, too. Hope you'll enjoy your time with it 🙂
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