ToneCommand 1.0.0
OLD SOUL. NEW MACHINE. HUMANS IN COMMAND.
Talk to your FM9. It builds the tone. Type a sentence, get a gig-ready,
multi-scene preset on your Fractal FM9 in minutes: the signal chain wired, amps
voiced per scene, cabs chosen, scenes named on the footswitches. You read every
parameter change it proposes, you confirm, and only then does it land on the
hardware over USB MIDI, verified by reading the unit back. A language model
proposes; it never sends. Nothing reaches your amp until you say go.
Proof, not screenshots: all eight scenes of a drop C metalcore preset, each built by typing a sentence, played through on a real FM9 → https://youtu.be/7f840w5mQis
What's in 1.0.0
- Build a tone from a video you don't have time to watch. Paste a YouTube
rig rundown, a forum thread, or a chat. On a captioned video it reads the whole
transcript and keeps only the gear and settings in about twenty seconds; the
intro, the sponsor read and every tangent are thrown out, so a two-hour
walkthrough becomes a compact tone spec without watching it. No captions? It
transcribes locally on your machine. - One-tap +Create lays a fresh rig on a free slot, or clears the loaded
buffer on a full unit, so there is always a blank canvas to build on (#44). - Both expression pedals, bound by name. "Put global volume on Pedal 1 and
wah on Pedal 2" (#11). - Pick a cabinet by name in a build: "put a 4x12 V30 on the rhythm" (#45).
- Compose a preset from parts of the tones you already own: "clone BT Marco
Sfogli, take the gain stage from it and the delay from the Andy Timmons tone." - A prebuilt starter template laid in one pass, and batched verification,
so the slow, fragile part of a build is gone (#47). - A bounded repair pass (#39) and a health scan after every build (#51)
that catches a dead or duplicated scene the moment it lands. - A tone rulebook, dialed in by ear on real hardware: cleans ship loud,
leads out-saturate the rhythm, no scene ships silent.
Read-back verification on every write, a blast-radius preview before anything is
sent, gig lock, and bring-your-own-AI (ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Kimi, a
local model, or the Claude CLI).
Full notes in CHANGELOG.md.