- Steadier key backlight: the glow of BACKLIGHT DIM LO and DIM HI (the unlit keys and idle buttons) is now a very
short flash about 900 times a second instead of a longer one 45 times a second. It no longer flickers, and in the
Bluetooth version it no longer jumps brighter for an instant while Bluetooth is on. - MIDI clock out: GLO SYSTEM 2/3 SYNC sends the MIDI clock to USB (OFF / USB; in the Bluetooth version also BLE
and BOTH). On the FM-1's own clock PLAY sends Start, then 24 clocks a quarter note on the sequencer's grid (steady
through tempo changes, never swung), and STOP sends Stop, so a DAW, AUM or another instrument can follow it.
Following a clock (CLK USB, TRS or BLE), the incoming clock and Start / Stop / Continue go on to the SYNC outputs
as they arrive, never back to where they came from. Nothing is sent during a firmware update. The FM-1's TRS jack
is an input only, so there is no TRS out. - MIDI in routing: GLO SYSTEM 2/3 ROUT chooses how incoming notes play: NOTE (as before: on the drum channel, the
tracks whose NOTE it is), SEL (on the drum channel, the selected track, pitched from C4) or TRACK (channels 1–8
play tracks 1–8, pitched from C4). Pitched notes into an armed track are recorded with their pitch. With TRACK the
white keys send on their track's channel at C4. - MIDI THRU: GLOBAL 3/3 THRU ON passes notes and CCs from each MIDI input to the other outputs (the TRS jack to
USB; Bluetooth and USB to each other in the Bluetooth version), never back to the input. It is a setting of the
FM-1, kept over power-off. - SYNC and ROUT are saved with each project; projects saved before load SYNC OFF and ROUT NOTE, and THRU starts OFF.
- Live cue and variations: while a pattern plays, queue the next project slot (A–D) or another variation and it
comes in exactly where the pattern ends (its longest track's), every track from its first step, in time. On HOME
and the SEQ pages the first 8 black keys (F#3 to A#4) queue variations 1–8 of the playing slot: the playing one's
key lit, a queued one blinking (not with KEYS on; elsewhere the black keys work as before). Hold SAVE (0.4 s, or
press a key with it) for the cue map: white keys 1–4 queue slots A–D, the black keys variations 1–8 (lit: used,
winking: playing, blinking: queued, breathing: unsaved edits); a slot key then a variation key queues both
(CUE>B3on top). The same key again switches at the next step; the playing slot's key
cancels; stopped, a cue switches at once; STOP drops a queued cue. The keys pressed with SAVE play no note, send no
MIDI and record nothing. A SAVE tap still opens the projects page, now when it is let go.- A slot switch brings the slot's sounds, steps, timing and locks; the tempo, swing, clock, MIDI, the master
effects, Grids, the mutes and the selected track stay. The old sounds fade out over the last 5 ms before the
switch (no click). A variation switch changes the steps and the timing only; the sounds ring on. - Each slot has 8 variations, in both the plain and the Bluetooth version: variation 1 is its own steps; 2–8 hold
their own steps and timing and share the slot's sounds and locks. A variation never used before starts as a copy
of the one playing when it is first cued. When a slot's variations are full the cue saysVARIATIONS FULLand the
playing one plays on. A slot comes back on the variation it played last. A SONG row plays its slot's variation 1;
while SONG plays a cue saysSTOP SONG TO CUE. Following an external clock (USB or TRS) the switch comes on the
pulse that ends the pattern.
- A slot switch brings the slot's sounds, steps, timing and locks; the tempo, swing, clock, MIDI, the master
- Edits stay in RAM until SAVE: a reset or a power cut brings every slot back as it was last saved. Leaving a
slot by LOAD or by a cue keeps its edits in RAM, so going back finds them; a slot with unsaved edits shows*in the
PROJECTS list. LOAD of a slot with unsaved edits (a tempo change counts) asksDISCARD EDITS?; SAVE onto a slot
that is not loaded but has unsaved edits asksOVERWRITE B*?. SAVE to another slot moves the edits there (the slot
you came from is its saved version again). RENAME of a slot with unsaved edits renames it in RAM only
(RENAMED (SAVE TO KEEP)). Unsaved variations of one slot can wait in RAM while another plays: until they are saved, a cue
of a third slot (or a LOAD, when the slot you leave has unsaved variations too) saysSAVE C FIRST. - FILL: a step's PROB goes on past 8/8 with
FILL(plays only during a fill) and!FILL(only outside one).
Hold REC (0.4 s) on any page but SEQ's to play a fill while you hold it (FILLon top). A shorter REC press arms
as before, when it is let go; REC held on STEP, PATTERN, MOTION and SONG does what it did. A learned REC and the
SMC-Mixer's REC are always taps. (A long REC hold off the SEQ pages used to toggle REC ALL.) - COPY / PASTE a slot: SAVE's third page, COPY: KNOB 2 COPY remembers SLOT's slot (
COPIED A,#in the list),
KNOB 3 PASTE (turn twice) makes SLOT's slot a copy of it: kit, steps, locks, variations and song, named
... COPY, unsaved until SAVE. PASTE again on the same slot before saving it undoes it (PASTE UNDONE). Not while
playing (STOP TO PASTE). - User sample slot 2 (USR2) now holds up to 48 KiB, as USR3 does: the rest of its flash holds the projects'
variations. A longer USR2 (uploaded under upstream Felucca) is shortened to its first 48 KiB once, at the next
power-on (USR2 SHORTENED TO 48K). If that ever fails (USR2 CLAMP FAILEDat power-on), SAVE says
USR2 ERROR: NO SAVEuntil the next power-on. - Projects: a project saved now loads on 0.25.0 and 0.24.0 without its variations. If a project's variations can't
be read, it loads without them and the FM-1 saysVARIATIONS LOSTonce. A power cut during SAVE keeps the previous
save whole. - Bluetooth version: a new Bluetooth page, in Hortator's own look. ROLE (HOST / DEVICE), MODE (now also
FM-LINK) and RECONNECT (AUTO / FAST / SLOW), and up to 8 saved devices, controllers and FM-1s, each on its own line
(connected or not, CTRL or FM-1, ON / NEAR / AWAY), with + ADD A DEVICE (an 8 s scan, then the list stays), FORGET
and "use now". Two links at once (a controller and another FM-1), reconnected by themselves in the order you picked;
scanning never drops a link. The top bar shows a Bluetooth rune (struck through while nothing is linked).- ROLE DEVICE: the FM-1 is a BLE-MIDI device for a computer, a tablet or another FM-1.
- FM-Link: two FM-1s in time (CLK LINK follows the leader), with Felucca's Bluetooth version too. The leader
runs on its own clock (CLK INT) or follows a MIDI clock (CLK USB, TRS or BLE). Following a clock, the leader passes
its Start, Stop and tempo on: the other FM-1 starts from beat 1 with it, within a few milliseconds, and keeps in
time. In MODE FM-LINK the link carries FM-Link only: no MIDI either way, so no MIDI clock either. - MIDI to the device: in MIDI mode the key hits go to the linked device too, and GLO SYNC BLE or BOTH sends it
the MIDI clock (one clock, the same as USB's). - The SMC-Mixer's knobs 5-8 are MIDI LEARN's.
- The device the old page remembered becomes the first saved device; MODE and AUTOSTART carry over. The saved
devices, ROLE, RECONNECT and this FM-1's Bluetooth address are kept over power-off, in a place older versions
ignore. The standard version is unchanged. - What the Bluetooth version leaves out: USB AUDIO 10 CH MIX and 10 CH FX (USB audio is always 2 CH there). The
manual has a new Bluetooth section: what it adds, what it leaves out, and step-by-step connecting of a MIDI
controller, the SMC-Mixer, a computer or tablet, and two FM-1s with FM-Link. - Known issue: while Bluetooth is on, a saved device that is not connected can make the sound stutter now and
then, as the FM-1 keeps looking for it. If you no longer use a device, FORGET it on the Bluetooth page (KNOB 1 left
on its line, OCT+); or switch Bluetooth off when you don't need 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-0.26.0.fwsc, and hortator-0.26.0-bluetooth.fwsc, the same Hortator with Bluetooth MIDI (experimental; off at every power-on). The web installer offers both.