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Warmer voices, more personal sequences, and an interface that grows with your music. Thank you to everyone whose listening, patches and feedback shaped this update.
What changed
- Refined FM, VA and resonant voices; more carefully balanced tones and Biomes; smoother shared granular processing and mixable filtered Air noise.
- Three new sound families: Velvet Keys, Spectral Bloom and Breath Texture. Six assignable tracks, 15 engines, 288 tones and 92 musical Biomes plus Blank.
- Up to 32 steps per track, note/rest, velocity, gate and probability; four phrase generators, keyboard/USB-MIDI step entry and monophonic live recording.
- Four chord journeys with selectable pace and participating tracks.
- Clearer antialiased text and organic backgrounds that respond to settings. Contextual held-button help remains available.
- Updated playable browser instrument and bidirectional USB editor, with separate browser/device User Banks, live JSON export and .mddb backup/restore.
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Update and recovery
Back up saved banks as .mddb and unsaved edits as JSON before updating. Read Recovery-1.2.txt. Stock V15 round trip, saved-bank restore and cold start were tested. For 1.0, use the documented legacy route through 1.1. Returning to V15 erases user data; full restore requires physical SEL confirmation. Keep original backups for downgrades.
Validation and limits
The exact device build passed 29 controlled FM-1 cases / 31 assertions without xruns, overloads, nonfinite audio, dropped buffers or capture faults. Dense combinations may require ECO. USB MIDI is tested; physical TRS-MIDI cable testing remains outstanding. See DEVICE-TEST-REPORT-1.2.txt for scope.
Firmware identity: FM-1_710010200
SHA-256: 828891e0f506d6a07ee0c6fa844e54207985c464e0f2d9cbb423e73ae522f7fb
The complete corresponding source is directly browsable in the repository and supplied as a separate source archive with an 830-file manifest. The approved device binary was not rebuilt for release packaging. Published 1.0 and 1.1 tags and assets remain unchanged.
With gratitude to Émilie Gillet, Mutable Instruments and the FM-1 open-source community. Independent project; selected algorithms, not complete ports of every module. Combined distribution GPL-3.0-only, original component licences retained.