LOOM-8

A pocket groovebox for the M-VAVE FM-1. Eight tracks, each in its own colour, on six synth engines, a sample player, a break slicer and a drum kit; a 64-step sequencer with tricks and parameter locks; and weave, which crosses two patterns into a third.

The Steps page on T1, the kit, playing: kick and snare in pink, the playhead lit

Arrange: every track's pattern in its own colour, the scene number large at the right

The Steps list with WEAVE WITH COPIED picked, its way set to rhythm

Version 0.5.4-beta. It installs and uninstalls the way every fm1-base firmware does, and the installer can put M-VAVE's own firmware back. Installing is at your own risk.

What's in it

Eight tracks, each with eight patterns of up to 64 steps: knit (the everyday subtractive voice, with a supersaw unison), rayon (two-operator FM), jacquard (wavetables), bellows (an organ), and cane and voile (physical models and voices from Mutable Instruments Braids) synths; sample and slice, which play the sample bank and chop breaks; or the kit, eleven drum voices on the black keys. 85 factory presets, and 16 of your own.
Tricks on any step: pulse, hold, multiply, ramps, bends, jumps, skips and more; locks for any knob on any step.
Weave a pattern with a copied one: bars or steps in turn, or one's rhythm playing the other's notes.
Players: arp, strum (one key plays a recorded chord) and hold.
The conductor moves the tracks that follow it through a key, a scale and a progression.
Throws: twelve momentary effects a hand, held from the keys, and recorded if you like.
Two send effects (the reverb with the PlayStation's own reverbs among its modes), a mixer with EQ and a compressor on the master, sixteen scenes and a song.
A screen reader: the FM-1 says its screen through FM-1 Screen Reader.

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. LOOM-8's way of working owes a great deal to teenage engineering's OP-XY. M-VAVE, FM-1 and OP-XY are trademarks of their owners; LOOM-8 is not affiliated with any of them.