SLOOP 2.6 Is Here! | M-VAVE FM-1 New Features & Sound Demos

video upload by PhilipsKnobs

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

"In this video, we're taking a hands-on look at the latest SLOOP firmware update, exploring some of the new features and putting them to the test.

SLOOP transforms the M-VAVE FM-1 into a compact, hands-on groovebox for creating electronic music. Version 2.6 brings a bunch of exciting additions, so let's see what they can do in practice!

I'll explore selected new features, demonstrate how they work, and play some loops to show SLOOP 2.6 in action on the M-VAVE FM-1.

SLOOP project and installation guide:
github.com/isod89/sloop-fm1

Which new SLOOP 2.6 feature interests you the most? And what would you like to see me explore in a future M-VAVE FM-1 video?

thanks for watching, and thanks for being here.

0:00 Introduction to Sloop 2.6
1:43 Punch-in effect demo
4:18 IPad Recording workflow
4:28 New texture features
5:26 Track insert effects
5:56 Future plans and conclusion

#SLOOP26 #MVAVEFM1 #Synthesizer ‪@M-VAVE‬ ‪@isod89‬"

Melodee v1.4.2 Live Workflow

video upload by Keremimo

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

"Hi all, finally I get to make a video, so I start a stream instead! This is a livestream introducing Melodee, the custom firmware for M-VAVE FM-1 pocket synth! I will answer all your questions and introduce all the features to you. Hope you enjoy!"

Install: https://keremimo.github.io/melodee

Previously:

Melodee v1.3.0 Release Stream: AMA!

video upload by Keremimo

"Hi all, finally I get to make a video, so I start a stream instead! This is a livestream introducing Melodee, the custom firmware for M-VAVE FM-1 pocket synth! I will answer all your questions and introduce all the features to you. Hope you enjoy!"

M-VAVE Just Released NEW Firmware for the FM-1!

video upload by PhilipsKnobs

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

"M-VAVE has released FM1 Open, its own firmware project for the FM-1, along with a browser-based Workbench and development resources for the community.

In this video, I install FM1 Open on an FM-1 running the original stock V15 firmware, try out some of the included demo projects, and take a quick look around the Workbench.

I'll also talk about what makes this release interesting, how it fits into the existing custom firmware scene, and what it could mean for the future of the FM-1.

I've only just installed FM1 Open while making this video, so this isn't a full review. All the sounds at the beginning are from the demo projects included with the firmware. I'll need more time with it before I can say how it compares with the other firmware options.

FM1 Open Workbench:
https://open.m-vave.com/fm1-workbench

Official M-VAVE forum announcement:
https://forum.m-vave.com/topic/4"

WHats NExt?? / MIN-1 Ensemble / M-Vave FM-1

video upload by HanzVolt

"Why dont you have one?"

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

Update: via github

"MIN-1 turns the M-VAVE FM-1 into a small minimalist ensemble, in the manner of the music of the 1960s to 80s that was made from very little: repeating figures, slow cycles of chords, processes you can hear. It plays itself from the moment it's switched on, so there is always something to start from; then you take over as much as you like: play your own chords (no theory needed: in EASY keys every key is a chord that fits), roll ideas and keep the ones you like, bring parts in and out by hand, put processes on the figures, and record it all as a song."

Try it in your browser (no FM-1 needed).

Side-Piece: EXTRA FX and more! free custom mod for the SP-404MKII (open beta 0.1.0)

video upload by Freakier Firmware

"Side-Piece is out: a free custom OS layer for the Roland SP-404MKII. It sits on top of Roland's own system 5.52 and adds what we wish the sampler had. Open beta 0.1.0, free for everyone.

▶ Build it (free, in your browser): https://freakierfirmware.com/sp-404mk...
▶ What's in it, known issues: https://freakierfirmware.com/sp-404mk...
▶ Try every feature in the simulator first: https://freakierfirmware.com/sp-404mk...
▶ Install and go back to stock: https://freakierfirmware.com/recovery...

WHAT'S IN IT
• FX screen on SHIFT + PATTERN EDIT
• FX stacks: four slots on BUS 1 to 4 and DRY (filter, lo-fi, EQ, chorus, phaser, delay, transient shaper)
• Stacks on a pad, latched or held
• Four LFOs, including PRESS, CHAOS and LORENZ
• Euclidean lanes over your patterns
• EQ per bus with pick-up knobs
• Frequency chop into four bands
• Smoother time-stretch with tempo and pitch override
• Ducker and tempo pump, input level
• Main-screen views, including the PSY1 visualizer
• CPU guard instead of dropouts
• Your own opening pictures from the SD card

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SuperFreaker 0.1.2: a randomizer for the MicroFreak (free firmware)

video upload by Freakier Firmware

"SuperFreaker 0.1.2 is out: free custom firmware for the Arturia MicroFreak. Hold Shift, press Amp Mod, and your MicroFreak rolls a brand new sound.

▶ Build it (free, in your browser): https://freakierfirmware.com/microfre...
▶ What's new: https://freakierfirmware.com/microfre...
▶ Back to stock any time: https://freakierfirmware.com/recovery/

NEW IN 0.1.2
• Randomizer: Shift + Amp Mod rolls the oscillator, filter, envelopes, LFO and Glide, and leaves your volume, arp, sequencer and effects alone
• Tape echo glide: turn Echo Time and the repeats bend like real tape (OFF, GENTLE, MEDIUM, WILD)
• Echo Sync: echo time in note values from the tempo
• Hold and Reverse keep the echo you were hearing
• A cleaner echo and reverb: no clicks on start

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

video upload by Skiff

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

Update: new videos 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...

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MYCELIUM 1.0: Forest, Psytrance, Goa & Hitech Firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1

video upload by matrixsynth

Note: the video above and details below are in via megagott.

"MYCELIUM is a free, open-source alternative firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1 by Lars Knacken / Mandalars, built on Felucca and SLOOP. The project focuses on Forest, Psytrance, Goa and Hitech grooves, with original drum assets and icons and four factory songs.

Version 1.0 is available as a public GitHub test release, with the installable .fwsc package and corresponding source archive available without registration. The repository includes an original photograph of MYCELIUM running on a real FM-1, upstream credits, licensing and build information.

The supplied 24-second clip shows the actual project FM-1 with its recorded device audio, short intro/outro and no added music. It is a brief demonstration, not a complete validation of all functions. Installation and reboot are documented; a full physical listening and controls test remains outstanding. Back up your work and read the installation and recovery information before flashing.

Free firmware and source download — 1.0 test release
Repository and real FM-1 display photo
MYCELIUM firmware project page

Independent project, with no official M-VAVE affiliation. The separate MYCELIUM browser instrument uses a different sound engine and should not be presented as a hardware firmware sound demo."

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

midnight operations, ep 25 - OP–XY firmware update 1.2.0

video upload by teenage engineering

"episode 25 covers the new OP–XY OS 1.2.0 update, presented by the product owner jonas recorded in the teenage engineering department store in nyc."

0:00 introduction
2:01 drumline synth
25:33 dynamic filter
30:56 multichannel usb audio
39:13 detune and closing

teenage engineering OP–XY Firmware 1.2.0: USB Multitrack Changes Everything

video upload by Noisegate

"The teenage engineering OP–XY just got a serious workflow upgrade with firmware 1.2.0, bringing USB-C multitrack audio, the new Drumline synth engine and a Dynamic track filter.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 Introduction – What's new in the OP–XY update
01:20 Setting up USB-C multitrack audio
03:13 Recording a live performance into Ableton Live
05:34 Mixing the performance in Ableton
08:35 External effects routing with Outbox 8
10:38 Live dub techno performance
11:46 Exploring the new Drumline synth engine
14:09 Programming drums and performance controls
15:48 The new Dynamic track filter
16:51 Final thoughts"

FM-1 NOIZ DEMONS OS by SPIKE the Percussionist

video upload by thenoiztempl

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

"NOIZ DEMONS turns randomization on the FM-1 into a summoning. Every time you roll a new sound, one of 30 demons of the Ars Goetia answers, its sigil takes over the screen, and its rank in the infernal hierarchy decides how far it's allowed to drag your sound away from where it was. A Knight barely touches it. A King tears it down to nothing and builds something new."

You can find the download and additional details on github here.

Oberwave firmware for M-Vave SMK 37 by Zvenson - ‪@sonzven‬

video upload by Stefan Dahl

You can find the M-Vave SMK on Amazon.

"A sound demo of the Oberwave firmware for the SMK 37. Early beta, but sounds very, very nice, with the exception of a few presets where the decay seems to be set to zero by some bug. Both pitch and modulation wheels work as they should. A few patches with high CPU usage have a slight input lag. In this version the last four knobs duplicate the four sliders. This firmware has amazing potential!"

Elektron Machinedrum MDX.20 - part01

video upload by van gee (vangeemusic)

"testing new MDX.20 firmware
improvised jam by vangeemusic"

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Reliq - Rlx 1.10: Reliq, Your DAW and Your Hardware on One Grid

video upload by Reliq Instruments

"Reliq, your DAW and your hardware, all on the same grid. Rlx 1.10 comes with U-SYNC 2.0: tighter, more stable sync between Reliq, DAWs and hardware, automatic latency compensation, and U-SYNC is finally available on Windows. The Bitwig integration goes much deeper, with track creation, plug-in loading and Bitwig clip sequencing directly from Reliq. The USB Host port now connects up to four USB devices through a standard hub. On top of that, there are refinements to Track Speed, the Euclidean generator and much more.

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ST-50 FM-1 Firmware

video upload by DECIMA1

"Get the FuMi-1 here: https://github.com/cartesive/fumi-1"

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


I found a Rare Japanese Synth

video upload by DECIMA1

"Today I talk about the Suiko ST-40 I found in Japan at a second hand shop."

HYP-1 for M-VAVE FM1

video upload by RedtailWorks

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

"Explore the features and functions of the HYP-1, a custom firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1"

https://rustypawz.github.io/fm1-HYP1/

HYP-1 turns the M-VAVE FM-1 into a hypnotic techno and acid machine. It plays from the moment it's switched on: a breathing pad, a deep drone, a generative 303 line and grain, over drums you sequence. You shape the voices like a small modular, flip patterns on the bar, break it down, build it up, and record the whole performance into your DAW.

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Generative Ambient Machine (AMB-1) Inspired by Brian Eno's Music for Airports for the M-VAVE FM1

video upload by DECIMA1

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

"Today I cover the FM-1 Generative Ambient Machine (AMB-1) get it here: https://charlesvestal.github.io/fm1-a..."


"A generative ambient machine, inspired by Brian Eno's Music for Airports. It plays itself from the moment it's switched on. You don't perform it, you tend it: pick a piece and a scale, take notes out, put them back, and let it grow.

THE GARDEN

Pad. Four breathing voices, a Rhodes or sung voices, each swelling and fading on its own cycle, so the chord forms and dissolves. Now and then it drifts to another chord in the scale.

Bells. Soft FM bells on four tape loops 13, 17, 23 and 29 beats long, sliding against each other so the melody never quite repeats.

Bass. The chord's root, low and gliding.

Pulse. A thump and two hats on Euclidean patterns of 16, 12 and 7 steps.

Space. A tape echo, a long tape loop and a plate reverb: most of what you hear. REC freezes the chord and lets the reverb ring on forever.

Eight pieces, each remembering how you left it. The keys are the scale: press one to take its note out or put it back. A slow tide between sparse and full, and rests now and then, keep it moving for hours."

How to make the Korg Minilogue XD sound like a Roland JP-8000

video upload by MrSynthmania

"Transform your Korg Minilogue XD into a trance legend!

Get the bundle of 16 Oscillator-Models here: https://synthmania.de/produkt/minilog...

Get the iconic Roland JP-8000 SUPERSAW sound as a digital User Oscillator – with the same parameters as the original.

This is part of my complete Bundle with additional 15 powerful User Oscillators for the Minilogue XD and NTS-1 (MKi).

In this video I’m showing the SUPERSAW in a short trance track and walking through some of the custom parameters:

🎛️ Phase – Control the massive width of the 7 supersaw waves
🎛️ Mix – Balance the dry and detuned signals perfectly
🎛️ Brightness – Open up the filter character for piercing leads
🎛️ SubOsc – Add massive low-end to your supersaw patches
🎛️ Octave Switch – Choose between 1 or 2 octaves for the SubOsc
🎛️ Drive – Boost the punch of the sound

Perfect for owners of the Minilogue XD who want classic trance and progressive sounds."

"This oscillator was written from the ground up in C++ for maximum efficiency and sonic uncompromising quality. Instead of simply stacking standard sawtooth waves, the code uses mathematical refinements otherwise found only in high-end plugins:

Original detune behavior: The oscillator calculates the phase behavior of 7 synchronized sawtooths using the exact asymmetric detune ratios of the original Roland JP-8000.

Fully band-limited: By employing optimized band-limited sawtooth algorithms, the sound stays absolutely clean and free of annoying aliasing even in the highest notes.

Analog-modulated filter design: Inside the code runs a cascade of four highpass filters plus a specialized high-shelf EQ based on BiQuad filter structures. This delivers an extremely clean bass range and silky highs.

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Novation Circuit Tracks Firmware Hack

It finally happened! Circuit Tracks Hacked! video upload by Guinan

"Thread is here,
/ circuithacks_is_out_now_unofficial_custom

Official Github,
https://github.com/Ghillermo/CIRCUITS..."

via Redit:

"NEW UPDATE: Beta1 is finishing internal testing and will be released soon. You can update with the upload tool. Thanks everybody for their input. I tried to include most of your requests (and some of my own) when it was possible, some of them I did my own take, trying to satisfy similar goals into a single approach. Now we have a couple new effects, you can save synth engine's patches, customize your macro Knobs from the device, pattern link, scene repeat, copy and re-arrange stuff inside or between packs... Check GitHub for a full list. All stock functions remain the same. Message me, submit a request on the GitHub or reply to this thread for fixes, new features or clarifications. A demo will maybe come, after a rest. If anyone wants to share theirs, be my guest."

Features for the archives, via Github:

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Fluyt - Felucca synth engines for Korg drumlogue & microKORG2

And via Regroove | RGRV on reddit:

"This is generated code, but mostly with my own code as reference (such as examples, build infra).

Don't want the FM-1 to have all the fun by themselves. Let's join them ..."

via https://rgrvdotnl.itch.io/fluyt-logue

"Fluyt - Felucca's engines for logue

Felucca is an open firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1, a small synthesizer built around a JieLi pi32v2 DSP. Its sound engines are plain integer C, self-contained, and each one is a different way of 'whistling'. Fluyt takes nine of them and ships each as its own KORG drumlogue or KORG microKORG2 unit.

This is based on Felucca and associated FM-1 firmware which is mostly AI-assisted code. Personal examples, units, and build-infra code were used to create these units.

Why Fluyt?
The name is symbolic, as fluyt is a kind of Dutch vessel, mostly used for trade during the 16th century. Just like in the old days, I hope this 'trading' will happen between the communities. And, the word also means whistle."

Side note: Felucca is by Hügelton Instruments. You can find additional posts mentioning Felucca here.

3rd Party Unofficial Sequential Prophet‑5 / Prophet‑10 Rev4 Firmware Mods

via GitHub

prophet-rev4-mods

version 2.3.0

An arpeggiator and a polyphonic step sequencer for the Sequential Prophet‑5 / Prophet‑10 Rev4, added to Sequential's own Main OS 2.1.0 as a firmware patch. You apply the patch to your copy of the official OS in your browser and install the result over USB like any OS update. Everything is controlled from the front panel.

Built on someone else's idea. The notion of patching the Rev4's firmware, and the proof that it works, belong to another person: an arpeggiator mod that circulated privately showed the way and set the control conventions this project keeps (A440 as the arp button, Bank/Group for modes, Glide Rate for tempo). This project began as additions chained in front of that mod and makes several additions — the polyphonic sequencer with rests and ties, the keyboard octave shift, tap tempo, patch memory, tempo divisions, and more.

New here? The walkthrough takes you through every feature at the instrument, step by step; the manual below is the reference.

Not affiliated with Sequential. This is a hobby project that modifies the instrument's firmware. Installing a modified OS is at your own risk and may void your warranty. Only the project's own code, tooling and notes are published here; Sequential's OS files are not redistributed, which is why you supply your own copy.

What it adds

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