MONO2K 1.5

MONO2K 1.5 for the M-VAVE FM-1: a new screen, tracks of their own length, a sound library of 96, a lighter bus.

A new screen: every page redrawn on a 4 px grid, clean and frameless, the picture the hero of each page; HOME's tracks as lines and blocks; lists like a menu. The type is now Silkscreen, a pixel font drawn at whole scales, crisp on the FM-1's display. Calm by default (GLO > SET > MOTN GLTCH brings the glitches back).

Controls: SELECT picks the track, ALGORITHM the machine, on every page. Hold EDIT for the sound catalogue: turn SELECT or KNOB 1 and each sound plays as you land on it; OCT+ keeps it, OCT− puts your sound back.

Tracks of their own length: hold SEQ and turn KNOB 2 (TLEN): each track loops its own length, 16 against 12 against 7, all restarting on PLAY and a new pattern. SEQ's knobs are LEN, TLEN, SPD, SWNG.

A sound library of 96: twelve sounds of their own character in each category (KICK, SNARE, HATS, PERC, BASS, LEAD, PAD, FX), across all sixteen sound machines. Sounds you saved stay.

A lighter bus: one BUS page (DCAY, DAMP, ADPC, DRIV); TAPE, HISS and the random glitch are gone, so heavy patterns leave the FM-1 more time. A01 loses its tape wobble, the demos their hiss; WOW and every PERFORM effect play as before.

Steadier on the FM-1: the screen goes out four times faster and only where it changed; frames come as the processor has room, and the motion is even.

A pattern that uses track lengths opens only on 1.5 or later; every other pattern loads as it played.

• File: mono2k-1.5.fwsc, identity FM-1_980, SHA-256 2ce26b114938be987c3fcd7907f67000d85a3ba38019f608298133f2f2fe0082 (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.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; Grids' map is Mutable Instruments' (GPL-3.0); the type is Silkscreen (SIL OFL 1.1, The Silkscreen Project Authors). Not affiliated with M-VAVE, Elektron or Torso.