Lessons · 110 With other gear
  1. 101 Playing live
  2. 102 Your own progressions
  3. 103 Your song
  4. 104 Changing styles
  5. 105 Recording a melody
  6. 106 Your own grooves
  7. 107 Fixing notes
  8. 108 Making it sound yours
  9. 109 Keeping your work
  10. 110 With other gear
  11. All lessons

110 With other gear

Send Polly's band to a computer, follow its clock, play from a keyboard and mirror the screen.

Picks up where 109 left off, but any song works.

Watch 110 With other gear (20 seconds)

1. Send MIDI out

Connect the FM-1 to your computer with a USB cable. It shows up as a MIDI device named "Polly FM-1".

Press GLO for Setup. KNOB 2 (MIDI out) is on, so every instrument goes out on its own channel. Polly also sends MIDI clock, start and stop.

In your music software, record MIDI from Polly FM-1.		Setup: KNOB 2 (MIDI out) on, with what it does

2. Follow MIDI clock

On Setup, KNOB 1 (Clock) is on MIDI.

When MIDI clock comes in, Polly follows its tempo, start and stop, and on every page except Home, the header shows "ext" in place of the tempo.		Setup: KNOB 1 (Clock) on MIDI, with what it does

3. Play from a keyboard

Connect a MIDI keyboard to the FM-1's TRS MIDI jack and play. Your notes play Polly's sounds along with the band.

MIDI in plays all 16 channels, with drums on channel 10. MIDI from your computer over USB plays them the same way.

4. Mirror the screen

Connect the FM-1 to your computer with a USB cable. Open the Mirror page in Chrome or Edge. Press Connect and allow MIDI with SysEx.

You'll see Polly's screen and panel live on the page. To save a picture of the screen, press Save PNG.

More in the manual

For the lights, the click and the controllers MIDI in follows, see Setup and MIDI. To play Polly from the Mirror page or from a script, see Screen mirroring.