SIDECAR█
A MIDI file goes in. Phrases come out, and the M8 writes them down itself.
Unofficial, and not affiliated with or endorsed by Dirtywave. Nothing here leaves your machine: no uploads, no network of any kind.
Use at your own risk. This is a hobby tool with no warranty of any kind, express or implied. It talks to your instrument over MIDI and it can write to a song you have open, so work on a copy and back up anything you would be sorry to lose. Nobody here is responsible for lost work or for anything a device does about it.
If the octave here disagrees with what your M8 shows for the same note, change it once and everything below follows. The manual does not pin the convention down, so this is a setting rather than a guess baked in.
Eight monophonic voices, one a track, so a second note on a track cuts the first exactly as the device would.
A phrase nobody wrote. Five rows, one scale degree each, sixteen steps across: a few cells are seeded and then the dish is left alone for a few generations. Every note is a degree of the scale, so there is nowhere out of key to land. What comes out goes through the same pipeline a dropped file does: transcribe it, look at the hex, or send it straight to the M8.
THIS TAB WRITES TO YOUR M8. It plays notes in while the device is recording, so whatever is on the track you point it at can be overwritten. Save your song first. Use at your own risk.
On the M8, before you press send: in Project view open MIDI Settings and set RECORD NOTE CHANNEL to the channel above. Turn SYNC IN to CLOCK+TRANSPORT if you are sending clock. Then go to Phrase view, put the cursor on the note column of the track you picked, and press play. The M8 writes the notes in as they arrive.
Clock is counted rather than printed. At 120bpm the M8 sends 48 of them a second and a log of nothing else is a log of nothing.
waiting for a connection
Relative FX commands add between 01 and 7F and subtract between FF and 80, so FF is one less and 80 is a hundred and twenty eight less. They stay relative until a note retriggers, at which point everything goes back to the instrument's own values.