Clipper Pro 1.2

Clipper Pro 1.2: the Clipper synthesizer on the M-VAVE SMK-37

Clipper Pro is Clipper 1.1, the open-source synthesizer firmware first written for the FM-1, ported to the M-VAVE
SMK-37, with the fixes of SLOOP 2.8.3. It runs on the SMK-37 Pro (and the Starrykey 37 Play), the SMK-37 Elite and the MKE-P37.

Install from the browser: https://isod89.github.io/clipper-pro/ (Chrome or Edge). The keyboard must run M-VAVE's
V016 first; the page picks the package for your model.

New in 1.2

• A held note keeps sounding under the notes you play over it, live and when recording (a free take, an overdub), in POLY and in UNI2 / UNI4. SEQ > NOTES LEN runs on under later notes.
• A sample played again starts from silence with its ATK (no click). No note stuck when MIDI comes in too fast.
• No crash on FM KICK (FMX) when ALG is turned past 32.
• The second core hardened: a USB backup no longer crashes it; if core 1 fails, one core goes on.
• Pads triggered as a drum module's (PADS > PAD THRESHOLD, PAD SCOPE), a hit pad flashes white; the hold pages no longer flash on a quick tap.
• The pad lights no longer take wrong colours (a longer reset before each LED frame: newer LED parts shifted the colours
  along the pads).

What you get

• 23 engines and 407 sounds: HYBRID, FMX, FM6, WAVE, VECTOR, JUNO, ACID, MACRO and more. Each sound has four macros.
  There are effects, an arpeggiator, a step sequencer and MPE.

• 37 velocity keys, read through your unit's factory curves.

• 16 RGB pads:

  • NOTES: the pads play the sound, lit in the colour of its kind.
  • SOUNDS (KNOB BANK): the sounds of one kind on the pads; tap a pad to load one.
  • While a layer is held: the steps and the tiles.

• 4 faders in 4 banks:

  • A: MACROS
  • B: ENV (ADSR)
  • C: TONE (cutoff, resonance, LFO rate, glide)
  • D: MIX (chorus, delay, reverb, level)

  A fader move shows its value on the screen.

• Pitch and mod wheels, a sustain pedal, and the TRS MIDI OUT jack.

Files

• clipper-pro-1.2.fwsc: SMK-37 Pro and Starrykey 37 Play
• clipper-pro-elite-1.2.fwsc: SMK-37 Elite
• clipper-pro-mke-1.2.fwsc: MKE-P37
• clipper-pro-editor-1.2.html: the editor, for offline use (open it in Chrome or Edge)

Each package refuses another model before anything is erased. The factory calibration is never written. M-VAVE's own
updater (M-UPGRADE) takes the keyboard back to the stock firmware at any time.

Credits

• Felucca: Leo Kuroshita (@kurogedelic), Hügelton Instruments.
• SLOOP and Clipper: isod89.
• The SMK-37 board layer and the installer library: M. Geisler (@genkigenki),
  fm1-to-smk37.
• Ideas: @ChanceTheMaker (sloop-smk).
• The second core: @andrerezemini, Charles Vestal, @keremimo.
• Also: @juanjiant-bit, AL-255, kagaimiq.

Everyone is listed in CREDITS.md.

Firmware with no warranty. M-VAVE, SMK-37, MKE-P37 and Starrykey are trademarks of their owners; Clipper
Pro is not affiliated with them. Licence: GPL-3.0.