"JUNiOr64 out now: a synthesizer that desperately tries to replicate the sound of glorious Juno. It's fully compatible with the Music Maker keyboard. The cutoff, LFO, and detune parameters can be adjusted in real time. Contains various presets.
"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)
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.
"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."
"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"
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.
"Meet holic, an experimental drum machine built on M5Stack Tab5. Inspired by the playful workflow of the Pocket Operator PO-32 tonic.
A 16-step sequencer with four drum tracks, controlled entirely by touch. Build rhythms with kick, snare, hi-hat, and noise.
The drum sounds are synthesized in code and prepared at startup. Create four patterns and switch between them at the next bar. Edit steps during playback, mute tracks, and play sounds live.
Retro LCD visuals and small animations react to the beat(not yet). Designed for portrait use, with audio through the headset output. This first proof of concept explores how a touchscreen can feel like an instrument.
"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 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 FlatSix Modular
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:19 Introducing the Shadow Coven
0:38 Common features across every Coven
1:17 The bracket unbinds — 1U portability
1:38 Why I built this
2:25 Shadow Coven — Nigredo
4:17 Shadow Coven — Mousai
5:46 Shadow Coven — Initiate (for existing customers)
6:48 Where to learn more"
"Introducing the Shadow Coven — a new line of 3U Eurorack configurations built from three Nocturne Alchemy Platform modules, bound together by a custom bracket at a true 26HP with no overhang, and powered from a single bus board slot via a daisy-chain harness.
In this video I introduce the full Shadow Coven line, walk through the first two configurations — Nigredo and Mousai — and announce something special at the end for anyone who already owns a FlatSix module.
🜂 SHADOW COVEN — NIGREDO
Three Arp Of Darkness modules running in parallel. The first stage of the alchemical Great Work: the blackening. Three buffers, each with six playback modes (Golden Ratio included), three Remix cycles, three clocks that can lock together or drift apart. Feed each buffer a phrase and watch it fracture into something you didn't quite write.
🜍 SHADOW COVEN — MOUSAI
Three sisters of inspiration: Seventh Summoner, Shroud Of Turing, and Arp Of Darkness. A meta-sequencer that chains song structures. A generative shift register that evolves to custom scales you build on the fly. A buffer-based arpeggiator that transforms what you feed it. The full Nocturne Alchemy toolkit in one 3U rack.
⚭ SHADOW COVEN — INITIATE (coming soon)
For musicians who already own a FlatSix module. Two modules of your choice at a lower price than buying them individually, pre-mounted in the binding with the power harness included. The module you already own drops into the open bay, completing the Coven. The binding, harness, and assembly time are free — my thank-you for being here from the start.
If you're interested in the Initiate, comment on this video or use the contact form on flatsixmodular.com and I'll reach out to you."
There is a Creator in every human being. Our mission is to empower those who have not and cannot.
Source code for the Behringer IGNITE 64-channel multi-track sequencer.
Key features
64-channel multi-track sequencer with a song, scene, track and pattern structure
Patterns of up to 16 bars with 16 steps per bar, scenes of up to 200 bars, 96 PPQN timing
Real-time recording, undo, fill, solo/skip, gang and sculpt functions
Transpose control and up to 10 user-defined scales
Internal General MIDI sound engine
5 MIDI DIN in/out pairs, USB MIDI, and USB host MIDI for up to 5 devices
MIDI clock sync, MIDI Machine Control and remote control
8 CV and 8 Gate jacks with calibration, plus sync in/out
Wi-Fi connectivity
Release status
This repository contains the IGNITE application, its audio engine and hardware protocol, and the Buildroot tree for the Linux image. Material that could not be redistributed was removed, so some parts need your own replacements before they build (see the README in each folder). There is no official firmware release here yet.
Front panel Touchscreen 16 RGB step pads, each with its own encoder 8 assignable knobs (A–H) and a jog wheel ROW and BAR encoders Transport, song/scene/track/pattern, and edit buttons USB-A port (5 V, 1 A) with a USB STOP button
00:00 Overview and patch demos 12:10 System Architecture 15:30 New Oscillator updates 19:42 Filters improvements, types, cascading 25:20 Sequencer modulation
'The Moog One was released in 2018 to much fanfare and high expectations. By all accounts, it was the greatest analog polysynth ever made; 16 voices, 3 oscillators, dual filters, knob-per-function, and Eventide effects. On paper at least, it was unbelievable. In person, it was astounding to play. Sounds were unlike anything ever made, and it lived up to the hype. But there were problems underneath. The volume knob was an unfamiliar taper. The filters didn't really drive much. There was very little distortion because of so much headroom in the mixer. The effects were underwhelming. And the fan noise to cool all that analog circuitry was loud and omnipresent. I know all this, because I beta tested it for over a year. All told, I entered 119 bugs and feature requests. To Moog's credit, they fixed about 89 of them.
When we set out to make this the ultimate homage version, we wanted everything possible, including improvements. But that wasn't enough; it had to play my original patches, offer all the improvements we could think of, and sound exactly like the original, but better.
TL;DR: it does.
The oscillators now include all the familiar analog shapes-- with sharpening, digital wavetables (including your own if you're bold enough), drawable shapes, and much more. The filters include the originals, modelled to within a dB at all ranges, plus most classic analog synth cart type additions, learned from all our other synth models. Plus, we added patch jacks for fast modulation routes. Plus, DRIVE and analog feedback loop lifted from Minimoog circuitry. CP3 mixer technology for even more vintage clarity. Instability along the way that isn't intrusive. Freely routable better snappy envelopes. A sequencer that outputs multiple lanes that you can drag anywhere. Effects that start with what should've shipped in the original, enhanced with legendary features. And if that's not enough, you can use your own VST3 effects inside it-- a world's first! All of this wrapped up in our EZ button. Randomize your way to your next sound and get there faster than you would've guessed. And best of all--- a cooling fan that is near dead silent, measured to within .001 dB of the original, then completely cancelled out!
All new factory patches, plus my original 161 patches for your enjoyment.
"We are developing an acoustic synthesizer built around physical lamellas that are set into vibration when a key is pressed. This gives musicians a richly tactile way to shape sound, beyond the limits of velocity-based keys.
Each key sets a thin steel reed vibrating — acoustically silent by design; it is captured by sensors that turn its motion into sound.
Physical oscillators
Each key sets a thin steel reed vibrating — acoustically silent by design; it is captured by sensors that turn its motion into sound. By pressing a key, the vibrations are felt haptically against the finger while the lamella decays at its natural rate.
Continuous control
Each lamella generates a continuous analog signal that modulates the synth engine directly. Press, pluck or strike — the gesture keeps shaping the sound for as long as the lamella rings.
Sensor array
Each lamella has its own sensor and its own signal path. The engine reads all of them at once, so every key stays live and independent."
Become a real sonic explorer by combining and layering up to four wav files to produce new audio landscapes:
Manipulate and mix four independent sound loops; apply onboard EQ and delay effects; process and mix external audio through the EQ and effects; easy firmware updates over USB-C; battery- or USB-powered (batteries not included); fits inside a real compact-cassette case! fluxMEMORY is an evocation of the old tape studios from the 50s and 60s, emulating 4 concurrent tape-loops by streaming audio files from a microSD card — it is not a sampler!
fluxMEMORY creates nothing by itself. It is up to you — the musician — to load the memory card with your own personal audio-fingerprints, whatever they might be.
The streamed audio files loop continuously, so using files of differing lengths means that a composition will evolve, with new connections tumbling over each other in a bid to be heard. It is up to the musician to carve these audio streams into a meaningful shape.
(This is the handheld version of the fluxMEMORY AE Module)"
"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.
"I created a custom patch for the official 2.3.4 firmware that adds a screen saver, speed change without pitch change, vertical waveform zoom, and an easy way to reset parameters to their defaults."
Additional details via the developer:
"I’ve put together a free, unofficial customization of 1010music Bitbox MkII firmware 2.3.4, adding a few features I’ve wanted on my own module. The customized version identifies itself as 2.3.4+c.
What’s added:
Vertical waveform zoom: pinch/spread vertically to adjust waveform height from 25–3200%. This makes quiet samples easier to see and lets you shrink loud waveforms. Horizontal zoom still works normally. A stationary two-finger tap restores 100% vertical zoom and horizontal fit. This only changes the display, not the audio.
Optional screen saver: a black screen after 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15, 30, or 60 minutes of inactivity. It’s disabled by default, under Tools → Disp. Playback continues while blanked. The first touch, button press, or encoder movement only wakes the display, preventing accidental edits.
Optional MIDI/CV-trigger wake: choose MIDI, CV triggers, or both. MIDI clock and active sensing are excluded. Unlike physical wake controls, the first incoming musical event still performs its normal action.
Pitch-preserving Speed: 50–200% playback speed, with a dedicated SPEED dial on the Sample-mode LFO/Spd page. It supports live adjustment and the normal INFO modulation editor, including LFO/CV modulation. At 100%, it uses native playback.
Double-tap dial defaults: double-tap a numeric dial to restore its default base value. Modulation sources and amounts remain intact.
The sound of NES, Game Boy and C64 in a desktop MIDI box – play it from any keyboard, sequencer or DAW
WHAT IS IT?
NIBBLE brings the sound of 1980s games consoles and home computers to your MIDI setup: pulse waves with duty-cycle "wah", the stepped NES triangle, noise, and 4-bit Game Boy-style wavetables – plus the tricks chip musicians relied on, like lightning-fast chord arpeggios, stepped envelopes, pitch sweeps and tracker-style macros.
Draw your own waves on the built-in wave editor, watch every voice on the live oscilloscope, and add authentic tracker "fake echo". A chip drum kit on its own MIDI channel includes an orchestra hit and crunchy 1-bit speech – GO! YEAH! ONE TWO THREE FOUR! GAME OVER! – and there is a step and loop sequencer, plus a demo tune with a dancing spider.
8-Voice 4-Operator FM • X-MOD Chaos • Morph • Arpeggiator • Hand-Built in Northern Ireland
A desktop FM synthesiser – play it from any MIDI keyboard, sequencer or DAW
WHAT IS IT?
FIMM is an 8-voice, 4-operator FM synthesiser with an engine written from scratch. It does the bright electric pianos, bells, basses, brass and metallic tones of the classic 1980s FM keyboards – and then goes much further.
The X-MOD section adds cross-modulation, ring modulation and hard sync, driven by the mod wheel, LFO, velocity, aftertouch, random or chaos sources, for sounds that growl, clang, tear and fall apart. Morph glides one patch into another as you play, and there is a built-in arpeggiator, chorus, delay and reverb. It also imports Yamaha voice banks over MIDI SysEx: 4-operator DX100, DX21, DX27 and TX81Z banks load directly, and DX7 voices are converted too – exactly when they use four operators, and as the closest 4-operator match when they use five or six.
4 Independent LFOs • Encoder Control • Hand-Built in Northern Ireland
Free-running or MIDI clock-synced — pair with any clock source for tempo-locked sweeps
WHAT DOES IT DO?
REVIVE is a standalone 4-LFO MIDI CC generator. Each of its four LFOs runs completely independently — its own waveform, speed, depth, MIDI channel, CC number and output routing — sending smooth, evolving modulation to your synths, effects and modular gear over regular 5-pin DIN MIDI.
Run each LFO free at its own rate — from fast vibrato-speed wobble right down to a genuinely glacial ~8-minute sweep — or lock it to incoming MIDI clock for tempo-synced modulation. Store up to 8 complete 4-LFO patches on board, and switch anytime between a full-screen icon/dial view or a classic text readout, whichever you prefer to work in.
"We spoke to Andrew from Tin Man Synths about his range of DIY Eurorack Modules, a set of simple through-hole designs built around accessible analogue and digital circuits.
The context was China's DIY synth scene, where importing synth brands and beginner kits can be difficult or expensive. Tin Man Synths focuses partly on making local DIY resources more available, alongside carrying other brands.
The range includes a transposing sequencer, which allows one sequence to transpose another, and clocking the two parts out of sync creates a longer rolling pattern of 32 to 64 steps. Other modules include dual attack-release envelopes, a side-chain VCA, matrix mixer, output stages, a semitone voltage-offset processor, the Radius 2164-based filter, voltage-controlled slew, a 40106 VCO, a voltage-controlled LFO, and Daisy Seed-based delay and granular effects.
The modules use through-hole construction, with bare PCBs around $10 and full kits around 400–500 RMB, or roughly $50–60.
Availability is currently mainly China and Southeast Asia."
"Eric from DOREMiDi gave us a look at MIDI Interfaces and utility boxes at M-China26, covering a wide range of compact devices for routing, converting and syncing MIDI signals.
The range includes the Merge 5, which merges up to five MIDI inputs and provides MIDI output and thru connections. A USB MIDI host handles communication between USB MIDI devices and traditional 5-pin DIN MIDI gear, while a Bluetooth MIDI unit connects DIN MIDI equipment to wireless MIDI systems.
Other devices in the range focus on routing and conversion. The MIDI stream controller allows MIDI connections to be customised, with filtering and routing functions. A MIDI timecode box handles sync between MIDI devices, music and video, including audio timecode sync. There is also a MIDI-to-DMX unit, which receives MIDI signals and converts them to DMX for lighting control.
The products are available through DOREMiDi's online store and Amazon."
A Pretentious Polyphonic Synthesizer
