Frodhes 0.9.2

Frodhes 0.9.2: a physically modelled Fender Rhodes electric piano for the M-VAVE FM-1. Every note is computed live from the mechanics of a Rhodes (hammer, tine, tonebar, pickup); there are no samples.

Download: frodhes-0.9.2.fwsc below. Try it first in your browser: https://leonardomirabal.github.io/frodhes/ (new look, with every button labelled)

Install

pip install mido python-rtmidi
python3 tools/fm1_install.py frodhes-0.9.2.fwsc

If anything goes wrong, switch the FM-1 off, hold OCT− and switch it on to get the USB rescue, then install again.

New in 0.9.2

• ENV opens the PHASER (press again: on / off; the light shows it) and SEL opens the DELAY (press again: on / off).
• The compressor's THRESH is its switch: OFF at 0, turn it up and the compressor comes on, with makeup gain that keeps the volume the same.
• Chorus, decay and the compressor are reached with SELECT (chorus and delay can also be brought in from the PERFORM knobs).
• The web emulator looks like the FM-1, every button and knob is labelled with what it does, and the labels follow the page (for example PLAY = HOLD on the arpeggiator page). A short guide sits beside it.

Full manual: https://github.com/leonardoMirabal/frodhes/blob/main/docs/MANUAL.md · Built on Dinghy. GPL-3.0.

Frodhes 0.9.1

Frodhes 0.9.1: a physically modelled Fender Rhodes electric piano for the M-VAVE FM-1. Every note is computed live from the mechanics of a Rhodes (hammer, tine, tonebar, pickup); there are no samples.

Download: frodhes-0.9.1.fwsc below. Try it first in your browser: https://leonardomirabal.github.io/frodhes/

Install

pip install mido python-rtmidi
python3 tools/fm1_install.py frodhes-0.9.1.fwsc

If anything goes wrong, switch the FM-1 off, hold OCT− and switch it on to get the USB rescue, then install again.

New in 0.9.1

• TRS MIDI In (#1): the FM-1's 3.5 mm TRS MIDI input works, for DAWless setups. Notes, CCs, program changes and MIDI clock come in exactly as over USB.
• MIDI page (press GLO three times): CHANNEL (ALL or 1–16, for USB and TRS alike; the FM-1 sends its notes on it), TRS IN on / off, CLOCK.
• Sequencer, a pattern recorder on the SEQ button:
  • Play notes or chords and they loop over 1–16 bars.
  • QUANT (off to 1/16T) and SWING apply as the pattern plays, so you can change them at any time.
  • Record live with overdub, or step by step while it's stopped: notes go on the cursor's step, and holding the keys while turning ALGORITHM makes them longer.
  • UNDO the last pass, ERASE by holding keys, DELETE a step, or hold SEQ to clear everything.
  • The screen shows what plays now and next in big letters, plus the bar as 16 cells. ALGORITHM moves step by step and PRESETS bar by bar.
• Chord mode (CHORD page, SEQ button): one key plays a chord. Use DIATONIC to follow the SCALE page, or pick a fixed shape (MAJ, MIN7, SUS4…), with inversion, voicing and strum.
• The phaser is now reached with SELECT (or its PERFORM knob), as the SEQ button opens CHORD and SEQUENCER.

Full manual: https://github.com/leonardoMirabal/frodhes/blob/main/docs/MANUAL.md · Built on Dinghy. GPL-3.0.

Frodhes 0.9.0

Frodhes 0.9.0: a physically modelled Fender Rhodes electric piano for the M-VAVE FM-1. Every note is computed live from the mechanics of a Rhodes (hammer, tine, tonebar, pickup); there are no samples.

Download: frodhes-0.9.0.fwsc below. Try it first in your browser: https://leonardomirabal.github.io/frodhes/

Install

pip install mido python-rtmidi
python3 tools/fm1_install.py frodhes-0.9.0.fwsc

If anything goes wrong, switch the FM-1 off, hold OCT− and switch it on to get the USB rescue, then install again.

New in 0.9

• PERFORM, the new first page: four knobs for playing. By default they are the dry / wet of trem/wah, phaser, chorus and delay, and turning one up switches that effect on. On the ASSIGN page you choose what each knob plays (27 choices). HOME switches between PERFORM and the main page.
• Arpeggiator on the ARP button: up, down, up-down, as played or random; 1/4 to 1/32 locked to the tempo (tap tempo and MIDI clock too); 1 to 4 octaves; gate. PLAY on its page switches HOLD, which keeps the arpeggio going after you let go of the keys.
• Compressor gain-reduction meter, like a hardware compressor's.
• Scales: SNAP now moves a note to the nearest scale note, and the root's keys glow dimly so you can find the keynote.
• Big chords keep every note: 8-note chords no longer lose notes.
• Headphones: the volume no longer flutters when headphones are plugged in. A new USB VOL setting on SETUP keeps the USB audio at full level whatever the MASTER knob does.
• A start screen, and the main page is titled FRODHES.

The DELAY page is now reached with SELECT (or from its PERFORM knob), since ARP opens the arpeggiator.

Full manual: https://github.com/leonardoMirabal/frodhes/blob/main/docs/MANUAL.md · Built on Dinghy. GPL-3.0.

Frodhes 0.8.1

Frodhes 0.8.1: a physically modelled Fender Rhodes electric piano for the M-VAVE FM-1. Every note is computed live from the mechanics of a Rhodes (hammer, tine, tonebar, pickup); there are no samples.

Download: frodhes-0.8.1.fwsc below (package identity FM-1_958).

Try it first in your browser: https://leonardomirabal.github.io/frodhes/

Install

pip install mido python-rtmidi
python3 tools/fm1_install.py frodhes-0.8.1.fwsc

If anything goes wrong, switch the FM-1 off, hold OCT− and switch it on to get the USB rescue, then install again.

What's in it

• Four instrument types: Stage 77, Suitcase, Early Felt, Bell Dyno. The tone, bark, bell, hammer, decay, release and noise are all adjustable.
• Effects: compressor, drive, tremolo / auto-pan / wah, phaser, chorus, delay (digital / analog) and reverb. Each effect keeps about the same volume when you switch it on, and FX switches all of them off and on at once.
• The compressor has 4 knobs (threshold, ratio, attack, makeup) and new in 0.8.1: a gain-reduction meter on its page, like a hardware compressor.
• A look-ahead limiter, so big chords stay clean on the USB audio and the headphone jack alike.
• Tap tempo with MIDI clock sync, scales (snap / degree), a sustain pedal on REC, and 12 factory plus 16 user presets.
• One page per section, with four cards for the four knobs. See the manual.

Built on Dinghy. GPL-3.0.