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 0.7. 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, thirty-two 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.