M-VAVE FM1 - firmware: XOX

start - firmwares: xox,
 

Description
- like Propellerheads Rebirth I bought in 1997 (and Pocket PC app 'Phoenixstudio')
- 909, 808, 2x 303 and a slice-beatbox (samples)
- Pattern based sequencer
- There can be 32 individual Patterns for every one of the 5 Machines
- Every Pattern can have 1 to 64 Steps.
- Song mode supports custom Pattern for every Track for each Bar
- Each Bar can have a max of 8 Repeats.
 

Links

Manual : https://charlesvestal.github.io/fm1-x0x/manual/
Cheat sheet : https://thefirmwarehub.com/cs/x0x/
Backup songs : https://charlesvestal.github.io/fm1-x0x/backup/
Upload break loops : https://charlesvestal.github.io/fm1-x0x/breaks/
Screen Reader : https://charlesvestal.github.io/fm1-reader/

Quick start

> Button layout
- Hold down a buitton for HELP Text.

FX SEL ENV LFO EDIT GLO
Fx Overview Context Menu* Shift key** Mixer Synth Editor Global settings
 
HOME SAVE ARP SEQ PLAY/
STOP		 REC
Song Overview
(2x) Song Mode		 (Autosave) Arpeggiator for 303 Pattern Properties Editor    

* SEL: Show Settings as a List for the different Modes (Song Mode, Patterns, Fx, etc...), with extra settings
** ENV: Hold down for other buttons shift function.

> Different modes
- After switching on, the synth starts in "TR-909 Synth Edit" mode

Song Mode : 2x HOME
- SELECT: switch between 2 Tabs with quick settings for selected Bar
- White keys: insert new Bar (Key 5 = insert Pattern 5)
- 5 Black keys: switch on/off Pattern for corresponding Track
- OCT+/-: switch bewteen Patterns 1-16 and 17-32.
 
Bar options:
- SEL for options,
- > SELECT: go to option,
- > ALGORITHM: change option value,
- > SEL: Enter
- HOME: Back to Song
Overview : HOME
- 16 White keys: select Pattern number for all Tracks
- switch to 17-32 Patterns with OCT
- 5 Black keys: Mute Track
Pattern Edit : SEQ: Edit the Pattern, Step 1-16.
 
EDIT: Edit the Sound Parameters of the chosen machine (filter, snappy, etc).
PRESETS: select Pattern Number P1..P32.
ALGORITHM: Switch to 909/808/303/Break.
OCT +/-: Show steps 1-16, 17-32, 33-48, 49-64 of this Pattern.
 
SEQ Mode 909/808 303 Break
Black keys Select Percussion Row --- Listen to the sample chop
White keys place sound in 16-step Pattern place Note "A1" in 16-step Pattern
Change Note using KNOB1		 Step on/off in 16-step Pattern
SELECT change parameters for this sound change parameters for this sound change Groove and Retriggering
EDIT Change Sound Change Oscillator/Filter Change Filter/Looping
SEL Complete 909 Parameter List Complete 303 Parameter List Break Parameter List

Synth Edit : EDIT
- Edit the Sound Parameters of the chosen machine (filter, snappy, etc).
Mixer : LFO
- press LFO again, or turn SELECT to switch to:
- > MIXER, Black Keys: select Machine to adjust
- > 909, Black Keys: select perc sound to adjust
- > 808, Black Keys: select perc sound to adjust
- > MASTER, adjust end-mix Drive, Compression, Pump and Filter (LP/HP)

Turn AGORITHM to switch to each Fader setting
- the 909/808 have a setting for each percussion instrument
 
SEL:
- adjust the above in one big list
- > the selected fader settings
- > the 909 selected perc sound settings (inc reverb and delay)
- > the 808 selected perc sound settings (inc reverb and delay)
- > the MASTER settings
- > under MORE: also Compressor detailed, distortion type
Effects : FX
- shows the amount of Effects for each machine
- turn SELECT to switch between Reverb and Delay settings
- REVERB type: Decay, Tone; DELAY type: Time, Feedback, Tone, Tape

Press SEL for more Reverb and Delay options
- be aware there is a "Tone" for Delay and a "Tone" for Reverb.

With the 808/909 you can have a Reverb and Delay levels:
- for every individual percussion instr (select the 909/808 in the Mixer and press Black Key)
- for the whole Machine (select the 909/808 in the Mixer and press SEL)
so you can have Reverb on Reverb.

Assign Effect to a Machine:
- go to Mixer (LFO)
- select the machine with the Black Keys
- turn KNOB3 and 4 for adding Reverb/Delay
Automation : (also called Motion Recording)
Motion belongs to a part's pattern:
- the 303's knobs record into the 303's pattern;
- the effects and master into the 909's (because the Master has no Pattern of its own).
- I would say, Master Automation could have been saved in a Song Column, out of the Pattern concept.
     
     
     

Workflow

Switch on the FM1:
- starts in 909, Pattern 1 Edit mode
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