Skiff 1.3 for the M-VAVE FM-1: two cores, 12 voices, MIDI LEARN (what's new)

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Update: new video added below.

"Skiff 1.3 is out: free, open-source firmware that turns the M-VAVE FM-1 into a six-track groovebox. This video shows what's new in 1.3, set to one song made on it: the FM-1's second core (BETA: 12 voices at once instead of 8), MIDI LEARN and a MIDI channel per track, an INSERT effect on every track, LFO sync, and more from Felucca 1.2 to 1.6.1.

Everything you hear is Skiff 1.3's own code playing that song: the firmware's source, run on a computer so the sound and the screens line up to the frame. Every sound comes from its engines, and every knob turn, mute, MIDI message and effect shown is performed in the firmware. Nothing was added afterwards; only the overall level was set. Every FM-1 screen shown is Skiff's own display, not a mock-up; the MIDI controller is a drawing of the messages the firmware received. A computer has no FM-1 second core, so the run renders those tracks itself with the two-core voice budget; Skiff's tests show the sound is bit for bit the same either way. The CPU figure on screen (60–63 %) was measured on an FM-1 playing six such tracks.

▶ Get Skiff (free, GPL-3.0): https://github.com/illuminus5/skiff
▶ Install from the browser (Chrome or Edge, FM-1 on USB): https://illuminus5.github.io/skiff/we...
▶ What's new in 1.3: https://github.com/illuminus5/skiff/r...

Chapters
0:00 Skiff 1.3 and STEP PREVIEW
0:12 The second core (BETA): 12 voices
0:43 MIDI LEARN, a channel per track, Program Change
1:06 FX › INSERT
1:29 LFO 2, ENV SYNC, the MOD matrix, SPREAD
2:00 Sequencer: EUCLID, DOUBLE, HALF, QUANTIZE SEQ+T
2:24 Perform: MOMENTARY, lane mutes
2:39 New sounds: HARD SYNC, SUB SAW, FOLD, three kits, dotted delays
3:02 Get Skiff 1.3

Credits
Skiff by illuminus5.
Built on Felucca by Leo Kuroshita, Hügelton Instruments (GPL-3.0); almost all of 1.3 is ported from it: https://github.com/hugelton/Felucca
The second core's start code is from X0X by charlesvestal (https://github.com/charlesvestal/fm1-..., after Melodee by keremimo (https://github.com/keremimo/melodee), with Jangada's measurements and hardening by zednaked (https://github.com/zednaked/jangada); its host tests by gospodindilly-ops.
MIDI Program Change by renebohne (Felucca #179).
Thanks to Schmongo for asking for the second core, and to benjaminguerrer for LFO sync and for asking Skiff to catch up with Felucca 1.6.1.
DRUM-X engine from JIANT FM by juanjiant-bit (GPL-3.0): https://github.com/juanjiant-bit/JIANT
Instrument samples: Versilian Studios VSCO-2 Community Edition and VCSL (CC0 1.0).
Fonts: Barlow Condensed and Inter Tight (SIL OFL 1.1).
Video made with Remotion.
Every engine's origins and licences: https://github.com/illuminus5/skiff#c...

M-VAVE and FM-1 are trademarks of their owners. Skiff is unofficial community firmware: it is not affiliated with or endorsed by M-VAVE, nor made or endorsed by Hügelton Instruments. Installing it is at your own risk. The installer can also put the official firmware back."

Learn Skiff 03 · Your first beat (M-VAVE FM-1)

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"Learn Skiff 03 · Your first beat

A beat in two minutes on Skiff, the six-track groovebox firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1: the drum grid, PLAY and the tempo, a bass line written step by step, a new sound, and undo. Every screen is Skiff's own display, from a run of the firmware; the unit is drawn from the same run, so every press is where it happened.

0:00 A new unit
0:12 Pick the drums · Open the grid
0:29 Play · Kick
0:44 Snare · Hats
1:02 Tempo · A bass line
1:18 Write steps
1:32 Listen
1:42 Change the sound
1:53 Undo · Nothing to save
2:09 Next: Sounds and engines

Shown on Skiff 1.3.1, free firmware (GPL-3.0) built on Felucca by Leo Kuroshita, Hügelton Instruments. Fonts: Barlow Condensed and Inter Tight (SIL Open Font License). Made with Remotion and three.js. M-VAVE and FM-1 are trademarks of their respective owners; Skiff is not affiliated with or endorsed by them."