So happy to see the keypress overlay being used for tutorials like this! That was one of my hopes - an overhead shoot with a greenscreen is definitely a pain. Great overview as well :)
Hey thank you . Your tutorial is the best one i’ve found for the M8 so far . Helped me figure out a basic step i hadn’t yet realized. Merci Beuacoup ! the m8 is Cest Manifique
Cosmic brother, my M8 arrived, what a powerful machine, the customs fees to Chile are crazy but it is worth every money invested, thank you for sharing your wisdom and experience, you have helped me a lot... wonderful music that you channel from the cosmos. infinite eternal blessings ⭐🙏
damn, was kind of on the fence whether to get this to have on flights or on the bus to work and I think your video finally pulled me on the side of getting it. very eloquent and helpful, especially the part about tables which isn't very well explained in other overview clips I saw on the M8 here. great job! gonna definitely come back to this one after I get mine. subscribed
Thank you for the feedback, glad it helped! Just so you know, to me it is way more than a bus or flight device, it has become my n°1 composition tool. But you'll see when you get it ;)
@@TristanBaldi ha, fair point :D I will definitely try to integrate it with my Elektron stuff as well. saw another clip of yours with the Digitone. did you try syncing these two yet? if yes, how'd it go?
@@shracken I did, and it syncs perfectly. Especially I like sequencing the digitone with the M8 and process it with the M8 fxs. But since I got the M8 I tend to less use several pieces of hardware together. It kind of distracts me from working on a full track if you see what I mean. I often realize I can do everything with the M8 and don't like spending time solving pattern changes issues or even matching the digitone sound with the M8. It's like all the sounds from the M8 kind of blend together much better than with an external synths. Of course you have all the tools to shape an external sound within the M8 (filters, sidechain etc.). I just tend to overkill it when combining the two for now. But it's a great pair. Yesterday I was thinking about pairing the two again soon
I have to say I like your M8 content videos of all the ones I have seen the most. I find the visual aid during the video really helped me. I have had my M8 for only few days. I was getting frustrated as I was unable to make anything tangible yet. But after watching this video step by step and following along it is getting much easier and making a lot more sense. The Tables !! I had not even messed with that feature before watching this video. After getting basics down on the menu commands and messing with the tables for each Instrument I am getting somewhere. Thank you . I really appreciate your M8 content.
Thanks for the video, the easiest tutorial I’ve found so far, clear and direct. Just got my M8 and I was really concerned with the learning curve, now I feel better, will continue watching your videos, thanks again!
You're welcome! You know, it's the best gear I ever bought. And I have some gear! I'm currently selling some, because the M8 is pretty much everything I need in terms of sampling, sequecing, and a huge part of sound design as well with its great synths. You'll love it!
god, thank you so much for this. i'm a complete noob at this, but always wanted to try and create music. again, thanks a million, now it's so much clearer what all those fields and values mean and what the process it. other tutorials on youtube fly over things like people are supposed to be familiar with trackers already
@@DavidDeLuge They are very different machines, I couldn't part with any of them I think! I love the Deluge for sequencing other synths, and the M8 for its great synths.
Thank you for this. Going along with my M8. Please do more. I really would love to see a breakdown of your previous song which is absolutelly stunning. Thank you for sharing.
Abonné ! Cool de voir des français qui parle du M8! Je viens tout juste de pré-order le mien après deux semaines de visionnage intensif sur le bouzin. J'ai jamais bosser sur un tracker mais tout me parait logique à force de regarder! Et ça sonne tellement bien ! J'ai un peu peur des frais de douanes par contre 😱 t'as payé combien toi ? Merci d'avance ;)
Merci pour ton message ! J'ai fait à peu près la même que toi, et ce doit être le meilleur achat que j'ai fait ! Les frais de douane piquent, personnellement en tout ça m'a coûté dans les 700 euros il me semble. Mais je referais cet achat les yeux fermés. Pour le prix il n'y a aucun regret à avoir, le M8 est tout simplement exceptionnel. Aucun synthé/groovebox que je connais ne tient la comparaison, encore moins à ce prix. Tu vas t'éclater !
@@TristanBaldi Merci pour ta rapide réponse :) 700€ pour un produit vendu 550 dollars ça fait un peu chier ouai :'( Mais comme tu dis, ya rien de comparable sur le marché! C'est moitié moins cher qu'un OP-1 haha 😆 J'avais pas envie d'attendre plus que ça et de passer à coté, parce que je sens que ça pourrait augmenter facilement... Et puis il ya tellement de boulo et d'amour dans cet objet que j'ai envie de soutenir le dev et faire parti de cette communauté de passionné :P Je vais kiffer c'est certain! Merci encore, et j'attends tes prochaines vidéos ;)
I am not sure I will buy the device but I have already ordered a teensy 4.1 board and will flash it with m8 headless firmware as soon as it arrives. I am not sure I will know what to do with it after that. My skills at actually making beats that sound good on any music production tool are pretty low. I would love to see tutorials that end up being a musical composition. So I can follow the tutorial and end up with a simple but good sounding track while understanding exactly what is going on.
Hi batner, thank you for your comment. From my experience, a beat that sounds good is a beat you like. The glory of the M8 and some other synths to me is that you have to use your ears a little more than what we are used to on a computer with all the graphic feedback we have. It all depends on what you enjoy doing. Designing sounds? Creating rythmic patterns? Writing melodies? Coming up with great bass riffs? For example, I really like writing melodies. But I know that my melodies will have to lay on a simple yet appealing basis made of a bass and/or drums. So I try to think in blocks. I write a simple melody, then try adding drums for example. And the way I pick the melody and the rythm depends on the way I designed the sounds on the go, or the samples I used. So I try different things: pitching up the sounds, using LFOs etc. and find happy accidents. That's the beauty of it! But if you'd like to start by following a tutorial, there are plenty out there. The M8 is pretty close in its architecture to LSDJ, on Gameboy. It is a million times more powerful but contains all the LSDJ basics. So maybe you can look at the great lecture called "Revision 2018 - Seminar - An introduction to Little Sound DJ" on RUclips, by Revision Demoparty. It is a complete introduction to LSDJ with live examples on how to design and sequence sounds. I watched it not so long ago and thought it was very valuable. I also made livestreams showing how I made my last track 'Merry May', you can find them on my channel. You'll also enjoy watching the Discord meetups of the guys from the M8 Discord server. Especially the meetup #2 for starters. And of course if you pop by my stream while I'm live I'll be happy to show you how to create a beat on the M8.
@@TristanBaldi Hi! Thanks a lot for the long and detailed reply. I will definitely watch what you have suggested. I watched some of your livestream but its like watching any other artist work, you already have an idea of what something should sound like to sound "good" and you play with "knobs" until it does. As you suggested I have installed LSDJ on my abernic 351p emulation portable. Will be doing the tutorials you have suggested. Thanks, again!
No, just a little cheat sheet with the main shortcuts but there's a manual online and a great community guide containing essential tips and tricks that you can find on the glorious discord server!
So happy to see the keypress overlay being used for tutorials like this! That was one of my hopes - an overhead shoot with a greenscreen is definitely a pain. Great overview as well :)
Thank you so much for making this! Fantastic program really, it helped me a lot for the making of this video.
Thanks. This is the first video on the M8 that made me understand what it does.
Thank you Grant, it's great to have feedback on this type of video!
Hey thank you . Your tutorial is the best one i’ve found for the M8 so far . Helped me figure out a basic step i hadn’t yet realized. Merci Beuacoup ! the m8 is Cest Manifique
Thanks for this. This the only tutorial I've seen for the M8 that makes any sense (and I've been using trackers for many years)
That's great to read, I'm happy I could help!
Same!
Cosmic brother, my M8 arrived, what a powerful machine, the customs fees to Chile are crazy but it is worth every money invested, thank you for sharing your wisdom and experience, you have helped me a lot... wonderful music that you channel from the cosmos.
infinite eternal blessings ⭐🙏
Thanks a lot for the kind words, I'm glad you received it! It is truly a wonderful machine, I'm glad I helped you a little!
This is the best tutorial video I’ve found! Thank you.
Glad I helped! Thanks for the kind words
Great video! And yes, more M8 videos please 😀 (As I wait for my pre-order to ship…)
Great introduction. Thanks! Hope the M8 will be available soon again…
damn, was kind of on the fence whether to get this to have on flights or on the bus to work and I think your video finally pulled me on the side of getting it. very eloquent and helpful, especially the part about tables which isn't very well explained in other overview clips I saw on the M8 here. great job! gonna definitely come back to this one after I get mine. subscribed
Thank you for the feedback, glad it helped!
Just so you know, to me it is way more than a bus or flight device, it has become my n°1 composition tool. But you'll see when you get it ;)
@@TristanBaldi ha, fair point :D I will definitely try to integrate it with my Elektron stuff as well. saw another clip of yours with the Digitone. did you try syncing these two yet? if yes, how'd it go?
@@shracken I did, and it syncs perfectly. Especially I like sequencing the digitone with the M8 and process it with the M8 fxs.
But since I got the M8 I tend to less use several pieces of hardware together. It kind of distracts me from working on a full track if you see what I mean. I often realize I can do everything with the M8 and don't like spending time solving pattern changes issues or even matching the digitone sound with the M8. It's like all the sounds from the M8 kind of blend together much better than with an external synths. Of course you have all the tools to shape an external sound within the M8 (filters, sidechain etc.).
I just tend to overkill it when combining the two for now. But it's a great pair. Yesterday I was thinking about pairing the two again soon
I have to say I like your M8 content videos of all the ones I have seen the most. I find the visual aid during the video really helped me. I have had my M8 for only few days. I was getting frustrated as I was unable to make anything tangible yet. But after watching this video step by step and following along it is getting much easier and making a lot more sense. The Tables !! I had not even messed with that feature before watching this video. After getting basics down on the menu commands and messing with the tables for each Instrument I am getting somewhere. Thank you . I really appreciate your M8 content.
I'm really happy to read that thank you for the feedback! It's nice to know it helped you a little ;)
@Tristan Baldi it has helped alot. I like your M8 content videos for sure
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this Tristan. So very helpful! 😊
nice tutorial, very comprehensive. tables are dope
Best short tutorial I've seen so far!
I'm waiting on my M8 . Thank you for your tutorial.
Awesome walkthrough here! Kind of love how you almost accidentally came up with a solid idea
Thanks for the video, the easiest tutorial I’ve found so far, clear and direct. Just got my M8 and I was really concerned with the learning curve, now I feel better, will continue watching your videos, thanks again!
Thank you for the feedback!
Awesome video, thank you
Great intro! I learned a lot very quickly. I can’t wait to get mine.
Sweet video thank you. Agree about the price, for all the features its a crazy affordable bit of kit. Pre ordered mine, can't wait!
You're welcome! You know, it's the best gear I ever bought. And I have some gear! I'm currently selling some, because the M8 is pretty much everything I need in terms of sampling, sequecing, and a huge part of sound design as well with its great synths. You'll love it!
Great M8 content Tristan, thank you!
Loved this video and would love more breakdowns
Great video, having just got my M8 it's useful - thanks!
Cheers!
Thanks for this. A really nice and clear explanation of how it works.
Thank you!
Great video, Tristan. The way you present things makes it easy to learn.
I'm glad I could help!
god, thank you so much for this. i'm a complete noob at this, but always wanted to try and create music. again, thanks a million, now it's so much clearer what all those fields and values mean and what the process it. other tutorials on youtube fly over things like people are supposed to be familiar with trackers already
I'm glad I could help!
Great video. Mine is expected in July.
You'll love it!
@@TristanBaldi how do you think it compares to the Deluge?
@@DavidDeLuge
They are very different machines, I couldn't part with any of them I think! I love the Deluge for sequencing other synths, and the M8 for its great synths.
That was awesome man, checking all the other videos of yours on the M8 asap!
Cheers guys, it's funny I think I used a pad of one of your packs in one of my M8 tracks! I often come back to these, great job!
Thanks for this video. M8 Power. Perso, ce device a également changé ma vie.
Excellent contenu. Bravo et merci ! (Ça donne envie)
Merci Thibault !
Thank you for this. Going along with my M8. Please do more. I really would love to see a breakdown of your previous song which is absolutelly stunning. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for your feedback Mike! I think I'll do a livestream with a breakdown of last track pretty soon, probably in the beginning of next week!
@@TristanBaldi Great, looking forward to it. I like your easy going style explaining it. Very easy to follow. Cheers!
Thank you !!!!!
You are very welcome!
Thanks Tristan, very helpful. Where did you get the overlay?
Pleasure! The overlay is called Gleix overlay you can find a GitHub on Internet!
Abonné ! Cool de voir des français qui parle du M8! Je viens tout juste de pré-order le mien après deux semaines de visionnage intensif sur le bouzin. J'ai jamais bosser sur un tracker mais tout me parait logique à force de regarder! Et ça sonne tellement bien !
J'ai un peu peur des frais de douanes par contre 😱 t'as payé combien toi ?
Merci d'avance ;)
Merci pour ton message ! J'ai fait à peu près la même que toi, et ce doit être le meilleur achat que j'ai fait !
Les frais de douane piquent, personnellement en tout ça m'a coûté dans les 700 euros il me semble. Mais je referais cet achat les yeux fermés. Pour le prix il n'y a aucun regret à avoir, le M8 est tout simplement exceptionnel. Aucun synthé/groovebox que je connais ne tient la comparaison, encore moins à ce prix. Tu vas t'éclater !
@@TristanBaldi Merci pour ta rapide réponse :)
700€ pour un produit vendu 550 dollars ça fait un peu chier ouai :'( Mais comme tu dis, ya rien de comparable sur le marché! C'est moitié moins cher qu'un OP-1 haha 😆 J'avais pas envie d'attendre plus que ça et de passer à coté, parce que je sens que ça pourrait augmenter facilement... Et puis il ya tellement de boulo et d'amour dans cet objet que j'ai envie de soutenir le dev et faire parti de cette communauté de passionné :P
Je vais kiffer c'est certain!
Merci encore, et j'attends tes prochaines vidéos ;)
when controlled from an external sequencer can you still apply FX from the M8 instrument?
Sorry I'm not sure I understand: you mean processing audio through the M8?
Superv 🙂😍👍👍
I am not sure I will buy the device but I have already ordered a teensy 4.1 board and will flash it with m8 headless firmware as soon as it arrives.
I am not sure I will know what to do with it after that. My skills at actually making beats that sound good on any music production tool are pretty low.
I would love to see tutorials that end up being a musical composition. So I can follow the tutorial and end up with a simple but good sounding track while understanding exactly what is going on.
Hi batner, thank you for your comment. From my experience, a beat that sounds good is a beat you like. The glory of the M8 and some other synths to me is that you have to use your ears a little more than what we are used to on a computer with all the graphic feedback we have.
It all depends on what you enjoy doing. Designing sounds? Creating rythmic patterns? Writing melodies? Coming up with great bass riffs? For example, I really like writing melodies. But I know that my melodies will have to lay on a simple yet appealing basis made of a bass and/or drums. So I try to think in blocks. I write a simple melody, then try adding drums for example. And the way I pick the melody and the rythm depends on the way I designed the sounds on the go, or the samples I used. So I try different things: pitching up the sounds, using LFOs etc. and find happy accidents. That's the beauty of it!
But if you'd like to start by following a tutorial, there are plenty out there. The M8 is pretty close in its architecture to LSDJ, on Gameboy. It is a million times more powerful but contains all the LSDJ basics. So maybe you can look at the great lecture called "Revision 2018 - Seminar - An introduction to Little Sound DJ" on RUclips, by Revision Demoparty. It is a complete introduction to LSDJ with live examples on how to design and sequence sounds. I watched it not so long ago and thought it was very valuable.
I also made livestreams showing how I made my last track 'Merry May', you can find them on my channel.
You'll also enjoy watching the Discord meetups of the guys from the M8 Discord server. Especially the meetup #2 for starters.
And of course if you pop by my stream while I'm live I'll be happy to show you how to create a beat on the M8.
@@TristanBaldi Hi! Thanks a lot for the long and detailed reply. I will definitely watch what you have suggested. I watched some of your livestream but its like watching any other artist work, you already have an idea of what something should sound like to sound "good" and you play with "knobs" until it does.
As you suggested I have installed LSDJ on my abernic 351p emulation portable. Will be doing the tutorials you have suggested.
Thanks, again!
Cosmic brother, how do you record and show the M8 with those images behind and you below, all at the same time?
I'm using a program called OBS, associated with a program someone made called Gleix M8 touch designer !
thank you🙏@@TristanBaldi
Super, merci, je vais le re-regarder, car je suis très intéressé par cette petite machine ! Vous en êtes content ?
Très content ! C'est un régal !
@@TristanBaldi Va falloir être patient, pas disponible actuellement !
This thing is waaaaay more complicated than any Mpc I’ve ever owned lol
It's really not! Just needs to get into it but it is fast!
t'es français ?
Eh oui !
@@TristanBaldi d'accord merci pour l'introduction en tout cas !
@@TristanBaldi et tes vidéos sur le m8 son graves intéressantes donc d’autres ne sont pas de refus
@@trollface407 merci pour le feedback j'apprécie !
Do it come with a manual ?
No, just a little cheat sheet with the main shortcuts but there's a manual online and a great community guide containing essential tips and tricks that you can find on the glorious discord server!