synthemodulaire's first firmware for the Workshop Computer !

video upload by synthemodulaire

"Workshop Fetichist is a firmware for the Workshop Computer by Music Thing Modular. The idea was to turn the Workshop System into an evil analog drum machine inspired by the Body Synths Metal Fetishist.

Download the firmware for free here :https://computer.musicthing.co.uk/pro..."


"Workshop Fetichist is a harsh, semi-random drum machine and noise processor for the Music Thing Modular Workshop Computer (hardware revision 1.1). Inspired by the Body Synths Metal Fetishist, it combines a looping random CV sequencer, probability-based trigger skipping, white noise, external audio processing, and two aggressive effects: Bitcrusher and Distortion. It can also be used as a random CV sequencer and rhythmic trigger source. The sequencer has an internal clock, but can be synchronized via Pulse In 1 or MIDI USB."

FM-1 ZP12 Based on the SP-1200

video upload by DECIMA1

You can find the M-VAVE FM-1 on Amazon.

"A 12-bit sampler after the E-mu SP-1200: sample on the FM-1 itself (a computer or phone plays into it over USB) or in the browser (mic, line-in or a file), and it plays on its own. Gritty and unsmoothed, with loops and songs."

Get the Firmware here: https://thefirmwarehub.com/

YAMAHA GENOS2 got BIG update!

video upload by Woody Piano Shack

"YAMAHA GENOS 2 ARRANGER WORKSTATION KEYBOARD just got a major mid-life firmware upgrade with improvements, new features, new acoustic and electric pianos plus 50 new cool styles. Everything you need to know and lots of fun musical demos.

Yamaha G2 V2 firmware demo.

https://www.patreon.com/cw/woodypianoshack
https://woodypianoshack.com

• Music theory and playing techniques
• Song breakdowns & piano arrangements
• Synth and keyboard tips and tricks
• Topics requested by members

bazillOS 0.9 — A Different Culture for the Polyend Tracker Mini | Full Tour

video upload by Kid Bunka

"A sample-first playground with a tracker at its heart.
Chop with intent. Grow a beat. Punch a hole in the ordinary.
Guide, firmware, demos and matching source:

https://kidbee85-beep.github.io/bazil...

In this tour:
The grouped culture menu and 4/8-track Pattern view
Ready PERC kits, Drum Lab and compact writes
Chop Studio / Slice Lab / Chop Patterns, Composer and generative Fill
All 11 engines: ACD, FAT, VAP, WTFM, PERC, DIRT, CHIP,
DREAMS, TIDAL, CROSSBREED and QUAD FM
Pulse Pong / Virus Breaker: games that become musical phrases
64 Punch recipes with balanced controls and coder-demo feedback
12 added Step FX, Master presets, clear recording states and context help
Three additional feature-demo listening previews

CLICK FOR MORE »

M-Vave FM-1 as a Dreamcore synth | DEMAKE mod

video upload by e y l v y

You can find the M-VAVE FM-1 on Amazon.

"An ambient lofi machine on 64 of its author's own pedal recordings: three synths, each with a piano roll, eight patterns, its own reverb, delay or tape echo and motion; huge shared reverbs, colour and old media over the whole mix; a chord machine and an arpeggiator, sixteen scenes, a song mode"

https://thefirmwarehub.com

FM-1 ZEN-1

video upload by DECIMA1

You can find the M-VAVE FM-1 on Amazon.

"Ambient as a living window: cherry petals on a river, koi in a pond, fireflies under a real moon, and every movement a note. Set it down and let it play; the keys play along, the knobs shape the scene."

https://thefirmwarehub.com

MINDBURNER | SACRED Hybrid synthesizer module

video upload by Mindburner

"if you like the D50 and M1 you might just like this"

www.mindburner.co.uk

GIO-1, a sneak peek. Moroder in a box? M-VAVE FM-1 firmware.

video upload by Guinan

You can find the M-VAVE FM-1 on Amazon.

0:00 How we got here?
2:59 Hear how it sounds

"I've checked out DUB-1 and NACHTFAHRT - here's my take on the idea. The inspiration this time is the 'father of disco', Giovanni Giorgio Moroder.

It's time to relive the futuristic electronic disco sounds of the '70s, '80s and '90s with GIO-1, new firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1. It is generative: it writes music in these styles as it plays. Pick a song, play along on the keys and let the lead answer you, drop in effects, and nudge it in the direction your feelings take you. Try all 9 presets. Feel love and enjoy!

This is at a very early stage (think of it as PRE-Alpha) - although the firmware is installable on the website below I would not recommend it unless you are very experienced. Only TWO FM-1s have had this installed so far - they lived to tell the tale and have since installed other firmware and gone back again to GIO-1. The firmware was built at all stages to try and avoid bricking devices. Your mileage however may vary.

Instead go to the website and have a play with the TRY IT section.
https://guinanno1.github.io/fm1-gio/e..."

ECHOFIELD - He Turned the M-VAVE FM-1 Into a Granular Synthesizer!

video upload by

You can find the M-VAVE FM-1 on Amazon.

"ECHOFIELD turns short samples into evolving clouds of sound, shimmering textures, strange loops, ambient soundscapes, and much more. It's a different way to explore the FM-1, built for experimentation and making sounds you might not expect from this little device.

In this video, I'll show you how ECHOFIELD works, explore its different granular modes and performance effects, and take a look at the companion browser app and built-in emulator.

You can even record audio directly from the FM-1 into the app, edit it, and send it back to the device.

Firmware flasher: https://philip-bos.github.io/echofiel...
Companion app: https://philip-bos.github.io/echofiel...
Browser emulator: https://philip-bos.github.io/echofiel...

Installation instructions and project source: https://github.com/Philip-Bos/echofie...

ECHOFIELD is free and experimental. Make sure to read the instructions before installing custom firmware, and back up anything you want to keep."



"ECHOFIELD turns the M-VAVE FM-1, a tiny FM synth, into a granular sampler. It reads tiny pieces of a sample (grains), dozens at a time, each with its own pitch, place and fade, and overlaps them into a sound that keeps moving. It started as a granular sampler for the R36S handheld and was rebuilt here, from the ground up, for the FM-1's own chip.

Six modes: CLOUD, DUST, TAPE, BLOOM, PULSE and DRIFT, each a different way of playing the same sound.

Playable: the keys play the cloud at any pitch, with velocity. Chords work too, and the DRIFT ORACLE picks notes in a key you choose.

Performance effects: hold FX and the black keys become freeze, reverse, octaves, stutter, tape stop, delay throw, shimmer and more, for as long as you hold them.

RANDOM with locks: ARP rolls new settings that still sound good. Lock the knobs you love, and undo if you went too far.

RESAMPLE: record up to five seconds of what you hear into a new sound, then granulate that.

LISTEN: hear any sample as it is, before the grains change it.

14 factory sounds, all CC0, and 16 slots for your own.

Both of the FM-1's cores render the grains, so there are no dropouts when you play hard.

MPC3000 OS 3.40.0

This one is in via deepeightyeight.

You can find demos in additonal posts here.

https://www.deep88.com/vibecod/mpc3000/

"A free unofficial OS modification by Deep88 with help from ChatGPT

I wanted a Track Mute page on my MPC3000. Nearly twenty years later, I finally made it happen, with ChatGPT's honestly insane help and a whole lot of trial and error.

I first used an MPC3000 back in 2007. Over the years, I started appreciating the newer MPCs, especially for the Track Mute page. I love building a song by muting and unmuting tracks, like on a big mixer, using Track Mute. The first MPC with a Track Mute page was the MPC2000, which got it through an OS update, using a Shift + button shortcut. From the MPC2000XL onward, it became a signature of the MPC family. Naturally, I wanted it on the 3000 too.

A couple of weeks of tinkering, using MAME's MPC3000 emulation for the first tests, and here we are. This update is based on OS 3.12, with Track Mute and a few extra features thrown in.

It's a bootable update only. There won't be an EPROM version, and I will never sell it. I made it as a gift to myself, and I'm sharing it for free with anyone who wants it, in the spirit of the old internet. If you feel like improving it or hacking in more features, grab ChatGPT, or whatever exists by the time you read this, and give it a shot.

Simply insert a floppy with .sys inside or use a gotek floppy emulator with .hfe or .img and turn it on."

New Firmware on the OP-XY…more synths & fx!

video upload by SON WU

"The OP-XY has also been hacked using AI. So new we are getting new firmwares, with new synths & fx daily. In this video I am showcasing a firmware by https://foundmotive.com/opxy/ with acoustic guitars, chord mode and a teenage engineering choir."

Tracker. The Biggest Update Yet.

video upload by Polyend

"All Trackers are getting a major firmware update with tons of new features and fixes you've been requesting for years. Plus - Tracker is now OPEN SOURCE!

Github: https://github.com/polyend/tracker-ce
Changelog of the newest Firmware: https://github.com/polyend/tracker-ce...
Firmware downloads: https://github.com/polyend/tracker-ce..."

FM-1 DUB-1

video upload by DECIMA1

You can find the M-VAVE FM-1 on Amazon.

Get the Firmware here: https://thefirmwarehub.com/

"A generative dub techno machine that plays itself from the moment it is on: chord stabs into a tape echo, FM pings, a sub bass on five grooves, a ducking kick, crackle, and an eight-bar arrangement with breaks and fills."

Side note: NACHTFAHRT is based on DUB-1.

FM-1 instant sampler + tape deck

video upload by ferluht

You can find the M-VAVE FM-1 on Amazon.

"Second iteration of FM-1 + android sampler, this time with redesigned UI, sample auto-tune and "tape deck" with cassette fx"

https://github.com/ferluht/fm1-sampler

A sampler + audio looper (8 tracks) for Android with the M-VAVE FM-1 as its hardware front end. The phone does all the sound; the FM-1 is the control surface (keys, buttons, 7 encoders), the second screen (240x240, drawn with SysEx commands) and the audio output (USB audio). All DSP is original code in engine/dsp (no third-party audio engine); the only library is KissFFT (BSD) for the Paulstretch mode.

FM-1 second screen (240x240, from the host simulator app_sim: sample, FX, envelope, LFO, arp, tape, mixer, key, mic waiting, rec armed, loop playing, loop length):

Phone app, main screen = the tape deck (light theme by default, the dark one is one tap away; ink / dim / orange): the tape loop, PLAY / STOP / REC / CLEAR under it, the sample of the selected track with its mode and sounding voices, the four knobs of the current page, one timeline of the selected track.

OPLBend Tracker – an LSDJ-style OPL3 tracker for M-VAVE FM-1 (circuit bending, looper, drum machine)

video upload by Maz Hoot

You can find the M-VAVE FM-1 on Amazon.

"OPLBend Tracker: a free, open-source OPL3 (YMF262) tracker firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1, by Audren.

• LSDJ-style structure: SONG, CHAIN, PHRASE, INSTR, TABLE
• Use the keyboard as a gamepad (D-PAD mode)
• Circuit bending, GLITCH and MASTER FX
• Looper and drum machine
• Opens and saves .A2M songs (AdLib Tracker II)

Install from your browser (Chrome/Edge): https://mazmusique.fr/oplbendtracker/
Source code (GPL-3.0): https://github.com/AudrenThibault/OPL...
If the web installer fails, the official M-UPGRADE app can install it too."

OPLBend Tracker

A free OPL3 FM tracker firmware, with FX inspired by circuit bending, a drum machine and a looper, for the M-VAVE FM-1.

What it is

An LSDJ-style tracker: SONG, CHAIN, PHRASE, INSTR, TABLE, PROJECT — driven from the FM-1's keyboard and knobs.

A software OPL3 (YMF262) FM engine, 18 voices, with 2,103 instrument presets from AdLib Tracker II.

FX inspired by circuit bending: virtual switches on the FM chip, track by track, and a chip clock you can bend (pitch and speed, like a slowed-down tape).

GLITCH, MASTER FX (distortion, ring mod, phaser, flanger, delay, crush, filter) and KNOB GENERAL on all sounds at once.

A drum machine, a drum keyboard (a drum on every key) and a looper with layers and polymeter.

Opens and exports AdLib Tracker II .A2M songs, which also open in AMBER OPL Tracker and my other OPL3 trackers. USB audio: record it straight into your DAW.

Help on the device: press ENV.

CS-1 - A Yamaha CS80 Model for the M-VAVE FM-1

video upload by

You can find the M-VAVE FM-1 on Amazon. You can find CS-1 at https://thefirmwarehub.com.

"A Yamaha CS-80 in spirit: eight voices of two channels, high- and low-pass filters in series, ring modulator, the touch response and 22 tones from the owner's manual. A sound module played over MIDI."

He made a fair Sampler for FM-1 and it sounds HUGE

video upload by ferluht

You can find the M-VAVE FM-1 on Amazon.

"Another day of AI-sloping firmwares for FM-1, this time a fair lo-fi sampler with 120s of audio, zones/instruments mapping, a free loop sequencer, punch-ins and send-returns. Still not LOOPA but already closer"

https://github.com/ferluht/fm1-lofi-s...

fm1-lofi

A lo-fi sampler that runs on the M-VAVE FM-1 itself, plus a web editor (one HTML file) that builds sample packs and sends them over Bluetooth (BLE MIDI) or USB.

Samples are stored in the FM-1's flash as 16 kHz mono, 2 bit LMS-ADPCM: about 100 s of audio in the 520 KB the firmware has for a pack.

The panel is a menu of ten screens (FX, SEL, ENV, LFO, EDIT, GLO, HOME, SAVE, ARP, SEQ), each with four parameters. Keyboard zones, scales, per zone envelope / LFO / start / end / reverse, four send effects with punch-ins, an arpeggiator and a live loop sequencer.

The web editor (one HTML file, any Chrome or Edge, Web MIDI) imports audio, slices it, maps it to zones, previews the real 2-bit sound and uploads the pack.

The most relaxing firmware for m-wave FM-1

video upload by The Cranky Man's Show

"A generative call & answer 1970s Berlin School instrument for FM1
Freeeeeee and it puts you to sleep in no time, just like it put me...zzzzzz"

Tangerine Dream in a box? - NACHTFAHRT firmware on M-VAVE FM-1

video upload by Guinan

You can find the M-VAVE FM-1 on Amazon.

"I'm blown away yet again by how great another M-Vave FM-1 firmware is. This time I'm playing the NACHTFAHRT firmware by Cranky Man.

Get the NACHTFART firmware here,
https://fartypants.github.io/fm1-nach...
It runs great in the browser if you just want to have a play."

"A generative 1970s Berlin School instrument. Two sequencers drift against each other over a slow drone, their filters breathing; a lead voice dreams above them. Let it play for hours, or play with it: the white keys give you the melody, always in the piece's key, over the sequences and the drone, while the lead plays its own phrases around yours.

NACHTFAHRT plays itself from the moment it is switched on, and it never ends: each piece builds, opens into a solo, drifts through a bridge and starts its long rise again. You are invited in. The white keys play the melody in the piece's scale, so every note fits, and the lead makes room for you. The black keys are effects while held: Rise and Close sweep every filter, Transpose lifts the sequences, Supernova, Twitter and more. SELECT turns the level of the layer you are looking at; PERFORM (SEL) mutes and solos the layers and pushes Filter, Wet and Energy.

WHAT IT PLAYS

Drone. Organ, strings, horn, saws, glass or a choir whose vowel moves, through a slow phaser, with the root an octave below; its chords walk slowly.

Sequence. The arpeggio at the heart of it: a Moog-style line repeated by the echo, its filter wandering, rising over the piece.

Sequence 2. A second line, usually a step shorter, so the two drift apart and meet again; now and then it moves an octave.

Lead. A gliding solo voice far in the reverb, phrasing in calls and answers; or your own melody on the keys.

Atmosphere. Wind, surf, space or tape hiss, where a piece wants it.

Eight pieces after the records of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and Ashra (Timewind, Wahnfried, Phaedra, Rubycon, Stratosfear, Sunrain, Mirage, Cyborg) and a ninth of its own (Sakura Rain), each remembering how you left it. Every layer has its sound pages and a Move page, where its filter wanders relative to the knob you set.

To go back to the official firmware, use the installer's "Back to the stock firmware", or M-VAVE's updater, M-UPGRADE, from m-vave.com/download. NACHTFAHRT is based on DUB-1 by sbegueria, itself based on AMB-1 by Charles Vestal; its granular cloud follows JIANT's; the platform is Felucca by Leo Kuroshita (Hügelton Instruments). GPL-3.0. Pictures made with ChatGPT. M-VAVE and FM-1 are trademarks of their owners. NACHTFAHRT is not affiliated with M-VAVE or Hügelton Instruments."

GR!MM V2.0 is out! Dark ambient firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1

video upload by GR!MM // Deathdream

You can find the M-VAVE FM-1 on Amazon.

"GR!MM V2.0 is free, open-source custom firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1 synth: it turns the FM-1 into a dark ambient, dungeon synth and drone machine with real recorded choirs, generative tracks that play by themselves, and long tape, granular and reverb effects. Happy Halloween

GR!MM V2.0 is a big update. What's new:
GENERATE: generative tracks that play by themselves (DRIFT, PULSE, STORM)
Real choirs: Gregorian monks, nuns and a cathedral choir
GLIDE on every sound
PHASE reborn: a second line, ring mod and noise
Four kinds of distortion: SOFT, FUZZ, CLIP, FOLD
A master filter over the whole mix
MIDI clock in and out, so the FM-1 syncs to your gear and DAW
A new mixer with tape and drive per track
Better tape warble effects


Most of this came from your requests. Thank you."

GR!MM V2.0 Full Tutorial | New features of the dark ambient firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1 explained

video upload by GR!MM // Deathdream

Microwave XT firmware - Tallent Edition

via github. Note this is not Waldorf sanctioned.

"An unofficial firmware extension for the Waldorf Microwave II, XT and XTk, operating system 2.33:

Independent wavetable selection for both oscillators.

X-Mod: new Phase and Amplitude modulation modes for both oscillators (XT and XTk).

Warp: nine ways to reshape each oscillator's wave as it plays, with two new modulation destinations, W1 Warp and W2 Warp (XT and XTk).

New aliasing settings modeled after the Industrial Music Electronics Piston Honda Mk II Eurorack module.

Interpolation: optional smooth wavetable scanning as on the Synthesis Technology E352 Cloud Terrarium and the Piston Honda, with Startwave in hundredths of a wave.

FX Para 1-3: three new modulation destinations that move the effect's settings, such as its Speed, Feedback or dry/wet mix.

MPE input, with per-note pitch bend, pressure and Y.

MIDI controllers for every new setting.

The Tallent Edition Sounds: 80 Sounds and nine wavetables that use the new features.

All original features remain. On an XT or XTk, the new pages sit behind Shift with the Wavetable, FM Amount and Env Amount knobs. A Microwave II plays 8 voices and reaches the new pages with the Page dial. Waldorf's update can be loaded again at any time.

See the New Features Guide for how everything works."