Dirtywave M8 Project File Walkthrough - How I use FX Lanes for glitchy IDM.

Taking a look at one of my actual ‪@Dirtywave‬ M8 project files, and explaining how I put together one of my most recent songs. Specifically, how I utilise FX lanes. The project file is available on Patreon: / allmyfriendsaresynths
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[@TOMLEW1S]

Bye bye afternoon

[@StephenMcLeod]

Hopefully it's useful!!

[@RaverOperatorGeeza]

Rave breaks vibes ♥️. I'm only a couple of minutes in...

[@jeremywho2289]

Nice! More m8 info!

[@StephenMcLeod]

Let me know if there's anything specific you'd be interested in!

[@RaverOperatorGeeza]

Hello there! I'm on the otherwise of the tube you are filming in! Love the Dirtywave M8 videos - good to see you visiting it again

[@StephenMcLeod]

Thanks! Let me know if anything in particular would be useful.

[@RaverOperatorGeeza]

​@@StephenMcLeodwell an easy one for you, I can't remember how to select the whole row in live mode

[@manslaughterinc.9135]

@@RaverOperatorGeeza Shift+option to select, then play. Or, more unintuitively, go into the chain, then shift+play

[@RaverOperatorGeeza]

@@manslaughterinc.9135 thank you very much! I've taken a screenshot so I can refer future - thank you very very much!!! 🤗

[@soundandstuff_leo]

Hey, very interesting walkthrough, thank you! I'm wondering, when you play live how do you approach transitions between songs? Do you just cue the next song and it starts on the next bar, or maybe there are some tricks there?

[@StephenMcLeod]

Hey! Thanks :) There's lots of ways to do it, and I've experimented with a bunch. You could use two M8s and a DJ mixer for a start. Alternatively, you can use some kind of effect in between transitions like a delay or repeater or something to then go into the next song while it loads. The way I tend to do it is just to load up a song while the M8 is still playing, so that it instantly loads up and is ready to go as soon as the other one is finished. I don't tend to do seamless transitions from one to another as I play more 'songs' than DJ style endless techno tracks, but that is possible as well. :)

[@soundandstuff_leo]

@@StephenMcLeod Thank you for the reply, that's make sense!

[@DavidDeLuge]

Really good video. Definitely more would be welcome 👍🏻

[@StephenMcLeod]

Thanks David! If you have anything in particular that'd be worth seeing, let me know!

[@jsieb]

Love your walkthroughs on the M8, keep them coming!

[@StephenMcLeod]

Would anything in particular be worthwhile to cover?

[@jsieb]

@@StephenMcLeod Crafting synth sounds and working in depth with samples mainly. I struggle with getting something going.

[@bentsound]

LSDJ Deluxe!

[@StephenMcLeod]

Hell yeah

[@AllTrackerz]

I can't get enough of these ! Thanks

[@StephenMcLeod]

Let me know if there's anything specific that would be useful!

[@AllTrackerz]

@@StephenMcLeod Hi Stephen ! thank you for asking , i won't say no to something on the swing , it's kind of obscure for me the way it works on the m8 😅