Maybe you know the feeling of still being undecided and fully committed to buy new gear. For some time now this is me with the m8. Buying just new gear is not my thing actually. It took me 4 years to buy an op-z and I am absolutely happy with it. It took me a while though to figure out why. Because I make music mostly in reaper. But the op-z is just so beautifully transportable. But it does have some drawbacks, if one wants to make music on the way, it’s great, producing the whole song, not so much - you probably know the term dawless. Well, I was looking for “it”. Tried the polyend tracker/+ and I like the tracker mechanism, but the polyend is just not as portable as one wishes for. Now I am trying myself on a headless m8 and it’s nice. Definitely my go to, IF it would be purchasable in Thomann… I am just scared of the import taxes from USA to EU. Anyone here ordered one to the EU and can tell about any taxes?
Anyway, thanks for moderating this small community.
---------- update Well I was one of the lucky ones, who could get their hands on the preorder button fast enough. So in 2 months time I should have my m8 :D
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I‘ve ordered an M8 to Germany last year, the import fees were 147.17€. The whole process was handled by DHL, so I just had to pay that fee online and got the package a day later or so.
Oh, that’s serious money on top! Thanks, that’s exactly what I needed to know. Guess this pushes me back for a while. Until I am able to buy one on eBay.
I’m not sure there’s much else out there at that size which is as powerful. I’m not a tracker person but every time I’ve heard the M8 I’ve been very impressed. It sounds great and it’s capable of getting quite close to full productions.
How difficult can it be to bring a project into a DAW? If you’re releasing then you’ll probably have to anyway at some point, even if it’s just as STEMs for mastering.
As for import taxes, have you looked on your government website?
The version 2 is out of stock but you can order it for September, according to their UK website.
What I’m saying is, if it’s the kind of box you want, you won’t find much that’s better. If I was after something like that, I’d go out of my way for it.
Alternatively, Sonicware make the Liven boxes which are sold at Thomann. Sound good, small, fun, maybe not full productions but cost half as much so two could get close.
Or there’s the formidable LXR-02. Again, more of groovebox, but mad and lots of fun. This retailer has good info for EU purchase.
Let us know what you get. Good luck and enjoy.
Hey, thanks for this much information. I need to dig through that one by one.
The m8 seems to be capable of exporting the stems directly into the SD card which would makes mastering a breeze. The process with the opz is Time consuming: recording pattern by pattern, track by track ;(
I’ll check out the liven Boxen right away, thanks for the Intel!
No worries. The M8 is kind of amazing and unique. As a user of trackers I think you’ll learn it fast.
The only other thing I can think of is the 1010 Blackbox. It’s purely sample based but very capable and very small. Thomann sell it here.
Have fun!
Good luck getting one! They sell out very quickly.
