Erbubar23/bubba-machine v0.10.0-beta

Bubba Machine 0.10.0-beta: every machine is its own instrument

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Every machine is its own instrument. HOME was rebuilt from scratch as a six-channel mixer, and entering a channel hands the whole FM-1 to its machine, laid out like the real one: TB-303, Minimoog, Juno-6, Vital and the FM-1's own DX7-style synth. The drums have a new step sequencer, the pad sampler became the BP-1 Slicer, and it boots with three factory patterns.

Beta, installed and running on the author's FM-1 (2812 automated checks; audio load about 8 % idle, no late blocks).
⚠️ On first boot 0.10 erases the saved patterns and scenes once and loads the factory patterns. Takes and settings are kept. To go back, restore the factory firmware from the installer, or download bubba-machine-0.9.0-beta.fwsc from its release and pick it under More options.

New

• Factory patterns: 1 = Da Funk (Daft Punk), 2 = Confusion in its Pump Panel Reconstruction from Blade (New Order), 3 = Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode), recreated with the stock machines. Scene B of every pattern mutes everything until you store another one over it.
• HOME is a mixer: 9 patterns, VOLUME · FILTER · DELAY · REVERB of the cursor channel on K1-K4, mutes (hold = solo) and four scenes per pattern on black 8-11.
• BB-303 = a TB-303: its panel on the knobs, ACCENT and SLIDE per step, TB-03-style OVERDRIVE → DELAY → REVERB, and a synced LFO with rhythmic shapes.
• B-MINI, BUNO-6 and BITTAL get the menus of a Minimoog, a Juno-6 and Vital, with the filter curve or the wavetables drawn under the knobs, plus DISTORTION, CHORUS and REVERB per channel.
• BX-7 is back: the FM-1's own FM synth inside Bubba, with its 32 algorithms drawn, 8 voices, its own effects, EDIT per operator and a 7-mode arpeggiator that records. 31 factory sounds.
• BP-1 Slicer: trim a take, slice it into 16 pads (AUTO, 8 or 16) and get a sequence that plays like the loop; it can also record the mix into a pad.
• BR-8 step sequencer with quick access to the instruments, accents, repeats and MUTE SOUNDS.
• Every machine has a GLO page: LENGTH (1-64 steps), MACHINE, MIDI CH, MIDI OUT, QUANT and RESET. Up to two heavy machines at a time.
• Recording like SLOOP: a fixed length that wraps; step recording inside SEQ; REC held 2 s clears the channel. Menu buttons are cyclic and there is no help text on screen.

Stability

• No more false safe mode after two quick power-offs; dim LEDs no longer flicker; keys no longer go dead after about 71 s; knobs no longer count twice; USB MIDI no longer loses note-offs.
• An audit of every machine against its original manual (accent and slide on the 303, BX-7 transpose and osc sync, B-MINI tune, BUNO-6 LFO, arpeggiator and recording fixes).

Removed from 0.9: the channel card, CUE, FX › CHANNEL, the song, MORE and the old SOUND / INSTR / MIX / PADS / TAKES / LOOP / SCALE / CHORDS menus, FREE REC, and user sound banks on the BX-7 (factory sounds only for now).

Full list: CHANGELOG · Manual

Files: bubba-machine-0.10.0-beta.fwsc (the firmware) and bubba-diag-0.10.0-beta.fwsc (diagnostic, no sound), for the web installer; they carry M-VAVE's boot and update loader unchanged.