BackBeat 0.9

A pedal-cued drummer for guitarists, on the M-VAVE FM-1.

First public release. BackBeat turns the FM-1 into a drummer you lead from your pedalboard: songs made of drum sections (intro, verse, chorus, solo, outro...), switched live over the TRS MIDI jack, with fills, breaks, endings and tap tempo.

Install: open the installer at https://forrestpanda.github.io/backbeat/ in Chrome or Edge, or use backbeat-0.9.fwsc below with python3 tools/fm1_install.py backbeat-0.9.fwsc.

Before you install: read docs/recovery.md. It has a one-minute backup of your unit (Linux) and every way back. The official firmware goes back on with the same installer and M-VAVE's FM-1 V15 file.

Status: runs on a real FM-1 and has been played live from a Hotone Ampero II Stage, but it has been tested on one unit so far. 0.9 because some things still need cleaning up before 1.0. Please open an issue to say how it went.

Package identity FM-1_900, version BACKBEAT 0.9. GPL-3.0, a fork of SLOOP 2.6 (from Felucca). The built-in kit MULDJORD is made from the DrumGizmo MuldjordKit and DRSKit (CC BY 4.0), AVL Drumkits Black Pearl and Red Zeppelin (CC BY-SA 3.0) and CC0 recordings: share the package with that credit (LICENSING.md).