Polly
A pocket arranger for the M-VAVE FM-1
Polly turns the FM-1 into a pocket arranger. It's inspired by the Yamaha QY70. Pick a style, and a band of eight instruments plays along, with drums, bass, guitars and strings. Hold a chord, and the band follows it. Write a few bars of chords, put them in order, and Polly plays a whole song from them. It adds fills, an intro and an ending. The sounds are the 128 General MIDI instruments and a drum kit. They play through the FM-1's speaker or headphones, and MIDI in plays them too.
Credits
- Polly is built on Felucca by Leo Kuroshita of Hügelton Instruments (GPL-3.0).
- The synth and its General MIDI sounds come from Sonivox EAS by Sonic Network and the Android Open Source Project (Apache-2.0).
- The drums in Polly's styles come from Google Magenta's Groove MIDI Dataset (CC BY 4.0).
- The note editor follows Melodee by Kerem Kilic.
- Running FM-1 firmware in the browser was the idea of Groove OS by Peter Gombos.
- For the full list, see the manual's credits.
Polly 0.4.1 is free software under the GPL-3.0. It comes with no warranty. The source is on GitHub. Polly is inspired by the Yamaha QY70 and is not affiliated with Yamaha or M-VAVE. It contains none of Yamaha's data. M-VAVE and FM-1 are trademarks of their owners. To go back to the official firmware, use the installer's "Back to the stock firmware".