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The M8 Companion
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The M8 Companion

(a flânerie by Prabhakar Ragde and Brian Simpson)

This is a tutorial introduction to the Dirtywave M8, a portable music device. It is a work in progress, and incomplete.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

    1 Introduction

    2 Prelude

      2.1 M8 organization

      2.2 Basic navigation

      2.3 Overview of views

      2.4 Hexadecimal notation

      2.5 Creating a new project

      2.6 Chains and phrases

    3 A first song

      3.1 Creating chains and phrases

      3.2 General parameters in Instrument View

      3.3 Synth instrument types

      3.4 The sampler instrument type

      3.5 Adding the bass

      3.6 Adding the pad and pluck

    4 Dub techno with the FM Synth

      4.1 A first look at the FM Synth

      4.2 Percussive elements

      4.3 Melodic elements

      4.4 Performance options

    5 To be completed

      5.1 Later chapter: Crafting beats with the Sampler

      5.2 Later chapter: The rest of the instrument types

      5.3 Later chapter: Tables

      5.4 Things to cover somewhere

      5.5 Undocumented FX Commands (add somewhere)

    6 Sources and Acknowledgements