USB audio
- USB audio, 2 or 10 channels: the FM-1 records into a computer over its USB cable (16-bit, 44.1 kHz), and MENU
(hold HOME) > USB AUDIO now picks what it sends. 2 CH, the default, is the stereo master, exactly as before.
10 CH MIX sends the master on channels 1-2 and the eight tracks T1..T8 on channels 3-10, one mono channel each
(each track before its PAN, the effect sends and the master effects). 10 CH FX sends the same eight tracks, with
the chorus, delay and reverb returns on channels 1-2 instead of the master: pan the tracks in your DAW and add the
effects pair to get the whole mix back, each part on its own fader. - Switching: 2 CH <-> 10 CH takes effect when the menu closes: the FM-1 leaves USB for about a second and comes
back as the other device, "Hortator 8ch" in 10 CH (its channels named Main L, Main R, T1..T8). The sequencer and the
sound play on; when following CLK USB the steps wait up to 2 s for the clock to come back. MIX <-> FX switches at
once with a short cross-fade, no reconnect. - Saved: USB AUDIO is a device setting, saved and not part of projects; older settings start in 2 CH. A safe
start (SEQ held at power-on) is always 2 CH. - Computers: the 10 channels work on macOS and iPadOS (class-compliant USB audio) and on Linux. Windows may not
accept 10 CH: use 2 CH there. - Bluetooth version: 10 CH needs the standard build. The Bluetooth build is unchanged from 0.24.0: it has no USB
AUDIO row, is always 2 CH and ignores a 10 CH setting saved by the standard build.
Web site
- Manual: the landing page has a manual before the engines: a map of the panel (point at a control on a small
FM-1, or at its line, to see what it does) and ten short guides (find your way, make a beat, shape a sound, play
and record live, mute, perform, lock a step, save and chain, MIDI and LEARN, settings). Manual is in the top bar and
the footer, and "More below" leads to it.
Install: https://deadactive.github.io/hortator/webapp/installer/ (Chrome or Edge, over USB). The package holds JieLi SDK files under Apache-2.0: see LICENSING.md and LICENSES.zip below.
Two versions: hortator-0.25.0.fwsc, and hortator-0.25.0-bluetooth.fwsc, the same Hortator with Bluetooth MIDI (experimental; off at every power-on). The web installer offers both.