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@dsablic dsablic released this 25 Oct 06:33
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v0.4.0
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SIDOU 0.4.0: drums, chance and USB audio

Try it in your browser first: https://dsablic.github.io/sidou/, and the
how-to videos.

New

  • A SID drum kit. A NEW song comes with eight drums made on the chip's own voices: KICK,
    SNARE, CL HAT, OP HAT, CLAP, TOM LO, TOM HI and RIM, picked by name on a STEP lane. They are
    plain GoatTracker 2 instruments, so the song plays the same in GoatTracker.
  • Digi drums. Four short sampled drums (DG KICK, DG SNARE, DG CLAP, DG HAT), gritty as a
    C64's, played the way C64 tunes play samples. GoatTracker plays the matching chip drum in their
    place, so the song still opens there.
  • Generative STEP. Hold a step and turn ALGORITHM to give it a chance to play (100 % down to
    0). EDIT + ARP is MUTATE, a small change to the lane's pattern; EDIT + SCL is DICE, a new
    pattern in a minor pentatonic (or a groove on a drum lane). All of it stays GoatTracker data.
  • Record over the USB cable. The FM-1 is also a USB audio input, no driver needed, on a Mac,
    Windows, Linux or an iPad: a DAW records what the line out plays, at 44.1 or 48 kHz.
  • The button LEDs show more. A dim glow means set or available, full light means active now:
    ARP flashes with the arpeggio, PLAY on the beat, REC through the count-in, SAVE while a
    question waits for it; with GLO the keys show which voices sound, and in STEP the keys show the
    page and the playhead.
  • An ARP helper in TABLE. Press ARP on a wavetable row and type an arpeggio as semitone steps,
    a speed and a loop point; SAVE writes plain GoatTracker wavetable rows.
  • SETTINGS → RESET. Sounds and settings back to factory, confirmed with SAVE; songs, USER
    chip profiles and MIDI learn mappings stay.
  • Songs to MIDI on the site: https://dsablic.github.io/sidou/midi.html turns a .sng into a
    .mid, a track per voice, timed as GoatTracker plays it.
  • Profile words everywhere: STATUS says 6581 CLASSIC, not 6581 R4AR.
  • About 25 KB of flash won back, with nothing heard differently, so the next release
    (.sid playback) has room.

The full list is in CHANGELOG.md.

Install

Over USB, at your own risk; the official firmware is one install away. Use Felucca's installer:
fm1_install.py sidou-0.4.0.fwsc, from the stock firmware, a Felucca-family firmware or an
earlier SIDOU (it finds the FM-1 as "SIDOU FM-1"). Back to stock: install M-VAVE's FM-1.fwsc
the same way. Holding OCT- at power-on is a rescue.

sidou-0.4.0.fwsc, identity FM-1_964, SHA-256 731ea917806d53399deea369105294b880281fe5dcd1ad5dd8ddcdc8621e3950.

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