Had to listen to it twice, great jam. What is this about multi-instrument midi playing? >.>

Had to listen to it twice, great jam. What is this about multi-instrument midi playing? >.>

The vocals here work so well, holy crap! Reminds me of some of the stuff that Moby did!
And the whole mix friggin rules!!! Awesome job!!!

The vocals here work so well, holy crap! Reminds me of some of the stuff that Moby did! And the whole mix friggin rules!!! Awesome job!!!

If you set Table TIC rate to FE, then the table is no longer sequential, but is instead a look-up table, that triggers on a different row for any of the first 16 notes from C1 up. So you can make each of those notes different notes/velocities by setting the N/V column, and apply different FX to each one.

AAAAND one of the FX you can apply is called INS, and it replaces the current instrument with one of your choosing (out of any that are loaded in the song). Which means that you can have one parent instrument that maps to 16 different instruments. Which is wildly cool for e.g. making a drum machine. And you can make the drum machine polyphonic by mapping multiple track's incoming MIDI channel to the same channel and to that instrument, setting the incoming midi mode to poly.

Only problem is there's one bug (which I just reported a couple of days ago) that screws up the pitch, and also you can't actually record what you play this way (but you can record it to something external and then re-record back in to the m8, I guess).

Thanks, I'm glad! Mixing with samples is still sketchy for me, but the new high shelf mode in the EQ is a real life-saver. That and the fact that I can easily listen to like 4 different speaker systems just by plugging directly in to them (not so easy with a computer!)

[quote=Princent Vice]Had to listen to it twice, great jam. What is this about multi-instrument midi playing? >.>[/quote] If you set Table TIC rate to FE, then the table is no longer sequential, but is instead a look-up table, that triggers on a different row for any of the first 16 notes from C1 up. So you can make each of those notes different notes/velocities by setting the N/V column, and apply different FX to each one. AAAAND one of the FX you can apply is called INS, and it replaces the current instrument with one of your choosing (out of any that are loaded in the song). Which means that you can have one parent instrument that maps to 16 different instruments. Which is wildly cool for e.g. making a drum machine. And you can make the drum machine polyphonic by mapping multiple track's incoming MIDI channel to the same channel and to that instrument, setting the incoming midi mode to poly. Only problem is there's one bug (which I just reported a couple of days ago) that screws up the pitch, and also you can't actually record what you play this way (but you can record it to something external and then re-record back in to the m8, I guess). [quote=jegasus]The vocals here work so well, holy crap! Reminds me of some of the stuff that Moby did! And the whole mix friggin rules!!! Awesome job!!! [/quote] Thanks, I'm glad! Mixing with samples is still sketchy for me, but the new high shelf mode in the EQ is a real life-saver. That and the fact that I can easily listen to like 4 different speaker systems just by plugging directly in to them (not so easy with a computer!)

that's really cool to read about the midi use of m8. needs a bit too much tinkering for my taste but it is actually amazing to be able to do so much cool stuff with it. it's why I still have it after so long having not really used it...
the beat is dope!

that's really cool to read about the midi use of m8. needs a bit too much tinkering for my taste but it is actually amazing to be able to do so much cool stuff with it. it's why I still have it after so long having not really used it... the beat is dope!

I dunno, I set all that up in like 15 minutes, once I understood what was going on.. Like, I already have the child instruments ready to go, so it's just a handful of steps, and then I can save the preset for later use, and it's easy to make modifications. Slicing a sample into 16 cuts took me significantly longer.

[quote=horatiuromantic]that's really cool to read about the midi use of m8. needs a bit too much tinkering for my taste but it is actually amazing to be able to do so much cool stuff with it. it's why I still have it after so long having not really used it... the beat is dope! [/quote] I dunno, I set all that up in like 15 minutes, once I understood what was going on.. Like, I already have the child instruments ready to go, so it's just a handful of steps, and then I can save the preset for later use, and it's easy to make modifications. Slicing a sample into 16 cuts took me significantly longer.

wait isn't slicing a sample into 16 literally a single toggle? you can choose how many slices to slice in, within any sample instrument it's one of the first options on the left below the path. and you can choose how many samples, but you have to play them as C1, one semitone per sample.

wait isn't slicing a sample into 16 literally a single toggle? you can choose how many slices to slice in, within any sample instrument it's one of the first options on the left below the path. and you can choose how many samples, but you have to play them as C1, one semitone per sample.

Yeah, that's possible, but it's not really useful for a sample-slicing beat making workflow unless you've pre-prepared the sample somehow. If you have a random snippet of an old soul song, then you generally want to add slices on the onsets of sounds, but that doesn't usually happen on a perfect division (especially when some music has a non-constant tempo), so you have to do it manually and use the file-based slices method.

[quote=horatiuromantic]wait isn't slicing a sample into 16 literally a single toggle? you can choose how many slices to slice in, within any sample instrument it's one of the first options on the left below the path. and you can choose how many samples, but you have to play them as C1, one semitone per sample. [/quote] Yeah, that's possible, but it's not really useful for a sample-slicing beat making workflow unless you've pre-prepared the sample somehow. If you have a random snippet of an old soul song, then you generally want to add slices on the onsets of sounds, but that doesn't usually happen on a perfect division (especially when some music has a non-constant tempo), so you have to do it manually and use the file-based slices method.

Great vibe, lush and deep soundscape!

Great vibe, lush and deep soundscape!

Nice, comfy vibes.
- Raioh

Nice, comfy vibes. - Raioh