textbeat VS M8HeadlessFirmware

I tried it on textbeat which is in python and it wasn't understanding too much, with the exception of how the callstack worked in the parser. My questions may have been too usage-specific and not enough about the internals but I used up all my free usage credits so I couldn't continue.

My text-based music sequencer has some music theory support and it also has a REPL:

https://github.com/flipcoder/textbeat

I haven't worked on it in a while, but you might like textbeat (https://github.com/flipcoder/textbeat). It's a midi tracker and REPL that lets you type in music theory-like terminology and plays it. It's nowhere near a modern DAW but it's cool for tinkering and learning.

I've used Bitwig as a plugin host for textbeat before and it was quite fun. Textbeat is a project of mine that lets you write music in "plain text" with notation for chords, scales, and articulations. I haven't worked on it in a while though.

I love these text-based languages for music composition. Its something that is approaching a gap in music composition in real-life vs via computer. In real-life you can tell your bandmates to "just play a I V IV in C" and they get it. But we are still not quite at a place where we can tell a computer that exact phrase and get something useful. I love how close these text-based languages are getting though!

I've actually made my own musical language too - called miti [1], which is just one of many others including textbeat [2], foxdot [3], sonic-pi [4], chuck [5], and melrose [6]. Each has their own goals and capabilities.

- [1] https://github.com/schollz/miti

- [2] https://github.com/flipcoder/textbeat

- [3] https://foxdot.org/

- [4] https://sonic-pi.net/

- [5] https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/

- [6] https://github.com/emicklei/melrose

The M8 headless guide. https://github.com/Dirtywave/M8HeadlessFirmware

M8 headless Teensy 4.1

Dirtywave have shipped plenty of M8's in the last year. They just produce them in batches, there have also been shortages of the Teensy 4.1 microcontroller used IIRC and they are highly sought after. You can also "build your own" from supplied firmware https://github.com/Dirtywave/M8HeadlessFirmware

This is not the fly-by-night kickstarter you are implying.

Search for dirtywave M8 headless, check my previous post of my version of a headless build. But if you want to start somewhere just buy a teensy 4.1 and do this: headless setup!

Firmware Update instructions have not changed. Read the readme.txt file if you need instructions Current M8 Firmware: - https://github.com/DirtyWave/M8Firmware/raw/main/M8Firmware.zip Headless Teensy 4.1 Firmware: (Updated for version 3.0.0) - https://github.com/DirtyWave/M8HeadlessFirmware

Dirtywave M8

I would suggest if you are ravenous for some m8 time, try the headless approach to see if it really is for you process wise, and wait for the next round of pre orders.