VST3 / CLAP · Windows Coming soon

M8C–BITWIG
BRIDGE

The M8 tracker inside Bitwig.

A plugin that brings a Dirtywave M8 into Bitwig Studio: its screen, audio and MIDI in one device on your track, played with a gamepad. Built for our live sets with a DIY headless M8.

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Bitwig Studio with the M8 Bridge plugin open on a track: the M8 song screen, audio and serial settings, and a status bar showing COM7, 44.1 kHz and 110 BPM — In Bitwig · screen, audio and MIDI on one track

What it does

FEATURES

THE M8 SCREEN IN BITWIG

The M8 display is drawn live inside the plugin window, so a headless M8 needs no extra screen or app.

AUDIO ON THE TRACK

The M8 audio comes straight into the Bitwig track the plugin sits on, ready for effects, sends and recording.

MIDI BOTH WAYS

Sync, notes and control between Bitwig and the M8 in both directions.

GAMEPAD CONTROL

Play the M8 interface with an Xbox-style controller, so a headless unit feels like the real thing.

TUNABLE BUFFER

Set the buffer depth to trade latency for stability, with a live readout of buffer fill, underruns and recenters.

Up close

A CLOSER LOOK

The M8 Bridge plugin window: M8 song screen, audio interface and serial selectors, buffer depth slider, MIDI toggles and connection stats — The plugin window

The M8 MIDI settings page inside the plugin, with sync in and out set to clock, transport and song position — M8 MIDI settings, from Bitwig

The plugin in its compact view next to the Bitwig DSP performance graph — Compact view · Bitwig DSP graph

Before you start

REQUIREMENTS

Hardware	A Dirtywave M8 connected over USB. Tested with an M8 Headless running on a Teensy 4.1.
Host	Bitwig Studio on Windows (VST3 or CLAP).
Gamepad	Optional. Any XInput (Xbox-style) controller.
Windows MIDI note	On some Windows setups the M8 binds to the new MIDI 2.0 driver and disappears from Bitwig. Setup notes for fixing this will ship with the download.

Unofficial community tool. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Dirtywave. M8 is a product of Dirtywave.

M8C–BITWIGBRIDGE