v0.2.0 · Beads, and settings saved on the card (untested on hardware)

Beads joins Clouds, Elements, Marbles, Plaits, Warps and Meld. Emilie Gillet released Beads' source on 2026-10-12 (pichenettes/eurorack@d8f4739), and this is that code, compiled for the Alchemy Lab with one upstream switch: Beads' 48 kHz path. The 32 kHz "Clouds" quality is resampled around the engine. Panel, jacks and caveats: src/beads/DESIGN.md.

Settings now live on the SD card. Each firmware saves its panel to /alchemy/state/<name>.st instead of a preset slot. Coming from v0.1.0, the first boot copies your settings from the old slot (6–11) onto the card. After that, slots 6–11 are free for presets you save by hand.

Status: built and tested on a computer, not yet run on a module, so this is still a pre-release. The new card-saving code has never run on hardware either. After flashing, check that /alchemy/state/ appears and that a knob comes back after a power cycle.

Install: unzip mi-alchemy-sd-card-v0.2.0.zip onto the card's top level, so the .bin files land in /alchemy and elements.smp in /mi, then pick a firmware in Settings. Checksums are in SHA256SUMS.txt.

Seven .bin files, elements.smp, the SD-card zip and SHA256SUMS.txt.