How to Map a Gamepad to M8 Headless Music Tracker on MacOS

How to Map a Gamepad to M8 Headless Music Tracker on MacOS

A brief tutorial on mapping a gamepad for use with M8 Headless.

[JMX]

great idea - thanks for posting - picking up a Teensy 4.1 later today

[sophiestellakis]

that's amazingly helpfull! Thank you so much! I managed to set my gamepad but for some reason, not all the combinations of two keys work. For instance Z+X on my keyboard computer erase, but when I do the same with the keys of the gamepad, nothing happens. At the same time, I can do Shift+an arrow to navigate. And shift+play is also working for playing all the tracks when you are not in the song page. I would be very grateful if you had some tip on this.

[keso.mp]

Do you know if you can map the m8 headless to another midi device via usb. Keeping the PC as an intermediary of course.

[simeonsmith]

Hey Seb! I was just looking at accessible ways to set up an M8 headless, and of course it's you putting these videos out there! Thanks for being such a positive influence to this community for so long! I've been learning from you since I first picked up a nanoloop cart in... 2008? Anyhow, amazing work, thanks again. Is there a good forum / discord for this somewhere? I joined the Dirtywave discord, but it's mostly focussed on the official firmware updates and releases. Also, is there a reason this needs to be on the teensy? Can you see a future where this is ported onto pi or linux so I could use it with a handheld I already own, as opposed to buying new hardware? Big love! - donotrunwithpixels.

[philmakesnoise]

Cool stuff man. Do you know if you can run the headless on windows or mac directly?

I've been looking into it for a bit and can't find an answer.