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Dirtywave M8: MIDI CC, NRPN and OSC map

The Dirtywave M8 as named OSC addresses — 35 CC — ready to use from Claude (MCP), SuperCollider, Sonic Pi, TouchDesigner or any OSC app via osc-bridge.

Device Dirtywave M8
Vendor Dirtywave
OSC prefix /dirtywave_m8
Source 🎛️ Derived from an Electra One community preset
Revision per Electra preset
Upstream electra-preset
Driver file devices/dirtywave/dirtywave_m8.json

Not tested on the device yet

This driver comes from documentation or community data and has not been checked on real hardware. If you own one, a quick test and a pull request promoting it helps everyone — see CONTRIBUTING.

How do you control it?

Find the MIDI ports, then start the bridge with this driver:

osc-bridge detect        # prints the ready-to-run line for what is plugged in
osc-bridge run --device devices/dirtywave/dirtywave_m8.json --out-port <N> --in-port <M>

Then send OSC to 127.0.0.1:7777, for example:

osc-bridge osc-send /dirtywave_m8/global/ch_1_vol 63

From Claude or any MCP client, the osc-bridge mcp server exposes this driver as dirtywave_m8: ask “what can the Dirtywave M8 do?” and it reads this map with list_routes. See the MCP guide.

MIDI CC and NRPN parameters (35)

OSC address CC NRPN (MSB/LSB) Range Nature Section
/dirtywave_m8/global/ch_1_vol 2 0–127 continuous Global
/dirtywave_m8/global/ch_2_vol 3 0–127 continuous Global
/dirtywave_m8/global/ch_3_vol 4 0–127 continuous Global
/dirtywave_m8/global/ch_4_vol 5 0–127 continuous Global
/dirtywave_m8/global/ch_5_vol 6 0–127 continuous Global
/dirtywave_m8/global/ch_6_vol 7 0–127 continuous Global
/dirtywave_m8/global/ch_7_vol 8 0–127 continuous Global
/dirtywave_m8/global/ch_8_vol 9 0–127 continuous Global
/dirtywave_m8/global/cutoff 34 0–127 continuous Global
/dirtywave_m8/global/res 35 0–127 continuous Global
/dirtywave_m8/tempo 54 61–70 continuous
/dirtywave_m8/reverb/size 28 0–127 continuous Reverb
/dirtywave_m8/reverb/hpf 29 0–127 continuous Reverb
/dirtywave_m8/freeze 30 0–127 continuous
/dirtywave_m8/delay/delay_time 31 0–127 continuous Delay
/dirtywave_m8/delay/feedback 32 0–127 continuous Delay
/dirtywave_m8/delay/reverb_send 33 0–127 continuous Delay
/dirtywave_m8/cutoff_42 36 0–127 continuous
/dirtywave_m8/cutoff_49 38 0–127 continuous
/dirtywave_m8/cutoff_69 37 0–127 continuous
/dirtywave_m8/cutoff_6b 39 0–127 continuous
/dirtywave_m8/cutoff_5 40 0–127 continuous
/dirtywave_m8/reverb_1 41 0–127 continuous
/dirtywave_m8/reverb_2 42 0–127 continuous
/dirtywave_m8/reverb_3 43 0–127 continuous
/dirtywave_m8/reverb_4 44 0–127 continuous
/dirtywave_m8/reverb_5 45 0–127 continuous
/dirtywave_m8/delay_1 46 0–127 continuous
/dirtywave_m8/delay_2 47 0–127 continuous
/dirtywave_m8/delay_3 48 0–127 continuous
/dirtywave_m8/delay_4 49 0–127 continuous
/dirtywave_m8/delay_5 50 0–127 continuous
/dirtywave_m8/delay_6 51 0–127 continuous
/dirtywave_m8/delay_7 52 0–127 continuous
/dirtywave_m8/delay_8 53 0–127 continuous

Performance MIDI

Notes, pitch bend and any CC are also available: /dirtywave_m8/note/on <note> <velocity>, /dirtywave_m8/cc/<number> <value>, /dirtywave_m8/pitchbend <0-16383>, /dirtywave_m8/program_change <n>.

Limitations

Imported from an Electra One community preset. The mapping reflects the preset author's editorial choices: parameter naming, ranges, and which params are exposed. Untested on hardware in this repo.