MONO2K 1.1

MONO2K 1.1 for the M-VAVE FM-1: the sound and feel update.

The amp envelope and the LFOs, by ear

• ATCK, DEC and REL spend their knobs where the times are, and show the time you hear: ATCK 20 ms at 16, 67 ms at 32, 0.4 s at 64, 2 s at 96, 10 s at 127; DEC and REL 0.8 s at 64, 4 s at 96, 20 s at 127.
• The attack swells instead of sounding instant up to the middle of the knob; ATCK 0 stays the percussive 1 ms, and a note played over a sounding one rises from where it is.
• LFO speed, slow first: 0 stands still, 12 is sixteen bars, 60 a bar, 84 a beat, 120 a 1/32. SPD shows the cycle's time (16 BARS, 1 BAR, 1/4, 1/8T...).
• LFO depth is fine near the middle (72 swings two steps, it swung sixteen), and whatever an LFO moves glides between its steps: no zipper.

The bus

• GLCH starts subtle: low values give a rare, quiet slice under the music, growing to wild at the top, and every glitch fades in and out without a click.
• The reverb runs from 0.3 s to over 20 s (DCAY), and DAMP shapes the tail from bright to dark without killing it. The VERB page draws the tail.
• The sends are audible early: VERB 32 is 12 dB under 127 (it was 24), and DSND 80 gives a clear echo (a hat's delay was unheard).
• PERFORM locks to the beat: repeats start on the grid and keep the attack, RPT 1/4 is a whole quarter, REVERSE plays the beat just gone, STOP slows over a beat and spins back up; CRUSH, WOW and DRIVE come in and go out without clicks.

Playing

• Every machine starts as a sound for its job (a sine bass, a supersaw pad, an e-piano, a choir, a kick, a snare...), at a home note that fits it, and a new pattern has a bass, a kit, keys and a pad.
• ALGORITHM changes the machine only on EDIT, tonal machines first; on the other pages it turns through the page's own pages (LFO 1A to 3B, FX's four...).
• Ready: stopped with REC on, PLAY waits for your first note and starts the pattern on it.
• MIDI in by source: GLO > MIDI's SYIN takes the clock from OFF, USB, TRS or BOTH; the new GLO > IN page picks where notes come from and can pass the TRS jack's MIDI on over USB (THRU; about 17 ms late).
• Fixes: a trig taken away takes its condition and ratchet with it; SWAV-PUL's width sweep no longer drops out; FILT's picture stays on the screen; FX-DYNAMIX no longer lets a note's first peak through.

Your patterns load with their envelopes, LFOs, reverb, sends and glitch converted to sound as they did; bank A sounds as approved.

• File: mono2k-1.1.fwsc, identity FM-1_980, SHA-256 3567333cdbf2992da1f06aedf0823f96ff5c229d7f3385e861bfea6513cf337b (the same file as the installer's).
• Install: from the FM-1 Firmware Hub or the installer page, over USB in Chrome or Edge. Coming from 1.0.x, your patterns stay.
• Leave it: install any other firmware as usual; MONO2K starts its update loader (Felucca's). Holding OCT− while switching on always reaches the updater.

The full list is in the manual's change log. Licence GPL-3.0-only; the update protocol and platform are Felucca's and CS-1's (Hügelton Instruments), GPL-3.0. Not affiliated with M-VAVE or Elektron.