The Dirtywave M8 has been gestating in the mind of chipmusican and technologist Tim Lamb, aka Trash80 , for more than a decade now. Branching out of past projects like his Arduinoboy midi add-on for LSDJ , the YM2149 synth project , and his max4live synthesizers Betawave and Blittersynth
Taking a queue from handheld trackers popularized in projects like LittleSoundDJ and LittleGPtracker , the device aims to solve so of the biggest frustration with those units, namely sound quality, synthesis methods, and interfacing the hardware with modern music-making equipment, and starting today; you can preorder the unit in the first production batch (after a successful pilot launch last fall). Is this a pricey extravagance for chipmusic fans, or is it a serious production powerhouse? TCTD ordered a un
These units are shipping with the following features: