In other news, my new toy, the M-VAVE FM-1, arrived today so this evening will be spent with playing with different open source firmwares [1] for this synth. Below €60 and allows for open hacking. What is not to like?
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NICE!
I love my FM-1 and still haven't had the time to fully experiment with it yet. I think I have a list of at least 12 interesting firmwares I want to check.
Also a second one is about to arrive here this week. 🙃
Another funny little tune that JIANT created for me.
If you want to play with it for yourself: Open the emulator at [1]. With the select button, go to page 5, use knob 1 to select a music style, use knob 2 to select a seed. Press Oct+1 and a new song is being generated. Press the play button. Don't like it? Switch to a different seed or style and press Oct+1 again. Have fun!
It’s so much fun to just go out, sit down, put the AKGs on and jam away :) And before you “yes, but” ;) The Jaint firmware is GPLv3 licensed, the source code is at https://github.com/juanjiant-bit/JIANT
@jwildeboer a sinclair piano 😄 remember the eraser keys?
@jwildeboer keep us posted (I was thinking about getting one myself)
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net how visible is the display, ie for a normal person, not some under-40-year-old child
@u0421793 The display is small, but fine. What it shows and how readable it is depends very much on the firmware you put on it. I am currently using Jiant and after a few days of playing with it, I have enough muscle memory to hardly look at the display. The buttons are backlit and have a good tactile feedback. For the price it is better than expected.
Short update on my M-VAVE FM-1: Ordered a second one. The one I have is now running the JIANT [1] Firmware. It's a generative groove box/synthesizer combo that sometimes creates surprisingly good results 😊 The second one is needed to do some droning :)
[1] https://juanjiant-bit.github.io/JIANT/
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