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TRIBE

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Ten-track groovebox where every engine can run on any track, with clip launching and send effects.

forM-VAVE FM-1·by@apiel

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TRIBE

TRIBE

Custom firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1: a ten-track groovebox where any engine plays on any track. Kicks, the 909 and 808 voices and ACID, sixty-four clips per track, scatter effects, two master effects every track sends to, and four master knobs you assign to the volume, a DJ filter, the effects or the tempo.

TRIBE on the FM-1

Try it, install it

EmulatorTRIBE in the browser, with sound: the same code the FM-1 runs. No FM-1 needed.
Web installerFlash your FM-1 from Chrome or Edge over USB. Nothing to install on the computer. Can put the stock firmware back.
ManualGetting started, every page and every parameter.
What's newThe release notes.
DiscordQuestions, bugs, music: the fm1-tribe channel.
SiteAll of the above on one page.

Installing firmware is at your own risk; TRIBE is a beta.

What it looks like

The FM-1's screen, from the same code (the manual shows every page).

Sequencer
Steps and a track's knobs		 Clips
Ten tracks, a bank of sixteen clips		 Mix
Engines and the mix
Sound
An engine's sound		 Scatter effects
Scatter effects		 FX 1 and FX 2
The two master effects

What it does

  • 10 tracks, 28 engines: two kicks (KICK W, KICK P), the 909 and 808 drum voices, ACID, LEAD, FM4, NOISE.
  • 64 clips per track in four banks of sixteen, launched at the end of the pattern or at once. 16, 32 or 64 steps, six rates, four directions, swing.
  • Scatter effects on the keys while it plays: loops, reverse, gate, crush, distortion, ring, filters, on a track or the whole mix.
  • FX 1 and FX 2: reverb, delay, drive, distortion, fuzz, wavefolder, crusher, decimator, ring modulator, chorus, flanger, phaser, tremolo or comb, fed by each track's sends.
  • Four master knobs, assignable: volume, DJ filter, resonance, FX amounts, BPM.
  • Keyboard with arpeggiator and transposition, quantised recording, a synth LFO, an always-on master compressor.

Build and test

tests/run_tests.sh     # host scenarios, audio tests, and the wasm build in node
./run_emu.sh           # build the browser emulator and serve it on http://localhost:8000 (needs Emscripten: ~/emsdk)
desktop/build.sh       # build the native emulator (a window with sound; needs SFML 2.x): build/desktop/tribe
tools/flash.sh --build # build build/tribe.fwsc and check that the FM-1 answers; add --yes to install it

See BUILDING.md for the toolchain, the tests and how the site is published, and docs/SPEC.md for the design decisions.

Credits and licence

A fork of X0X by Charles Vestal (see docs/X0X-README.md), which is built on Felucca by Leo Kuroshita, Hügelton Instruments. The kicks and the scatter effects come from zicBox; the 909, 808 and ACID are ports of 9W9, 8W8 and the zicCycle 303 (details in LICENSING.md and the manual's credits).

GPL-3.0-only. M-VAVE and FM-1 are trademarks of their owners; TRIBE is not connected with M-VAVE, Roland or Hügelton Instruments.