DUB-1 1.1.0

DUB-1 1.1.0 makes the FM-1 more playable: PERFORM gets solos and a real Drop, Open and Shut you can hear, and the pings can stay as you leave them.

Try it in the browser: https://sbegueria.github.io/fm1-dub/emu/
Install from Chrome or Edge: https://sbegueria.github.io/fm1-dub/install/
Manual: https://sbegueria.github.io/fm1-dub/manual/

New in 1.1.0

• PERFORM, reworked (SEL). Three sets of keys with a dark key between them, and every key that does something lit:
  • white 1–5 mute the chord, pings, bass, kick and hats;
  • black 1–5, above them, solo them (more than one at once; their echoes ring out; SOLO shows on the screen);
  • white 7–11, held: Throw, Open, Shut, Drop, Echo.
  • Hold SEL for the key map.
• Drop (white 10): the kick and the bass out while held, back on release: the floor falls away. (It was Kick drop, which did the same as the kick's mute.)
• Open and Shut you can hear. Shut sweeps the whole music under a low-pass while the kick keeps pumping; Open thins it with a resonant high-pass and opens the chords' filter three octaves. Both sweep in over about half a second.
• Pings that stay. At Evolve 0 the ping loops keep their notes, pass after pass; they only change when you change Density. SAVE keeps each piece's pings, so the melody comes back after a reboot or a trip to another piece.
• Feedback shows what it does: 45% to 112%, the loop's real gain (past 100%, the soft clip holds the echo as it swells).
• The screen: the chord's name bigger, on a dark backing so the rings pass behind it (readable in dub hold too). On the Setup page the battery's charge sits in the header next to its icon, and the leftover raw battery reading is gone; nothing in the header shifts as the CPU figure changes.

Upgrading

Your saved pieces from 1.0.0 are kept. Their pings are grown afresh once, then kept from your next SAVE. Note that the PERFORM moves moved up one key (they were white 6–10).

Installing

Use the web installer above, or download dub-1.1.0.fwsc below and run python3 tools/fm1_install.py dub-1.1.0.fwsc from a checkout of the source. To go back, the installer's "Back to the stock firmware", or M-VAVE's M-UPGRADE. Installing other firmware is at your own risk; an FM-1 that fails to start twice comes up in a safe mode the installer can reach.

Credits

A fork of AMB-1 by Charles Vestal. The granular cloud follows JIANT's CLOUD. The platform is Felucca by Leo Kuroshita (Hügelton Instruments), by way of X0X, FoMni-1 and AMB-1. GPL-3.0-only. M-VAVE and FM-1 are trademarks of their owners; DUB-1 is not affiliated with M-VAVE or Hügelton Instruments.

DUB-1 1.0.0

DUB-1 turns the M-VAVE FM-1 into a generative dub techno machine. It plays itself from the moment it's switched on: chord stabs thrown into a tape echo, FM pings on loops of unequal length, a sub bass, a kick tuned to the key that ducks the rest, a shaker, an off-beat hat, a rim and a rare clap, vinyl crackle, and eight-bar phrases that drop the kick for a break and bring it back with a fill. Leave it running, or play it.

Try it in the browser: https://sbegueria.github.io/fm1-dub/emu/
Install from Chrome or Edge: https://sbegueria.github.io/fm1-dub/install/
Manual: https://sbegueria.github.io/fm1-dub/manual/

In 1.0.0

• Eight pieces, each remembering how you left it; the keys are the scale
• A voice per layer on ALGORITHM (7 chord voices, 5 pings, 5 basses, 5 drum kits), a sound page under each layer's button, an FM page with the algorithm drawn (a 4-operator FM engine)
• A Chords page (EDIT): eight slots, root, kind and type, played in turn, or chords chosen by themselves
• A drums Pattern page: five lanes of sixteen steps on the white keys, accents, chance
• PERFORM (SEL): the knobs a mixer, the keys mutes and dub moves (throw, filter, kick drop, echo)
• REC: a tap holds the echo (dub hold); held, sixteen effects on the white keys (tape stop, filters, stutter, siren, riser...)
• A tape echo that feeds back past 100%, a granular cloud, a plate reverb
• The screen shows the echo: each stab a ring, its repeats following, the ping loops circling; the bar as it plays, its echoes flashing. HOME again on the Dub page: a scope, or a spectrum
• A screen reader can follow it (FM-1 Screen Reader)

Installing

Use the web installer above, or download dub-1.0.0.fwsc below and run python3 tools/fm1_install.py dub-1.0.0.fwsc from a checkout of the source. To go back, the installer's "Back to the stock firmware", or M-VAVE's M-UPGRADE. Installing other firmware is at your own risk; an FM-1 that fails to start twice comes up in a safe mode the installer can reach.

Credits

A fork of AMB-1 by Charles Vestal. The granular cloud follows JIANT's CLOUD. The platform is Felucca by Leo Kuroshita (Hügelton Instruments), by way of X0X, FoMni-1 and AMB-1. GPL-3.0-only. M-VAVE and FM-1 are trademarks of their owners; DUB-1 is not affiliated with M-VAVE or Hügelton Instruments.