github Erbubar23/bubba-machine v0.8.0-beta
Bubba Machine 0.8.0-beta

pre-release2 hours ago

Choose your instrument. The drums (BR-8) and the pad sampler (BP-1) stay fixed; T3-T6 pick their machine (BB-303, B-MINI, BX-7, BITTAL or BUNO-6), and every machine's pages follow its real panel.

Beta, not fully tried on the device yet. It passes the automated tests (907 checks) plus long simulated sessions, and the firmware leaves 125 KiB of RAM free.
⚠️ 0.8 changes the pattern format: on first boot it erases your saved patterns. B-MINI and BUNO-6 user sounds no longer load (BITTAL sounds and DX7 banks do). To go back, install 0.7.0-beta or the factory firmware from the installer.

New

  • MACHINE page (just before SOUND on T3-T6): turn ALGORITHM to a machine and leave it 2 s to load it, with no question, for live use. Notes, loop, ARP, scale and mix stay.
  • Heavy machines one at a time: BUNO-6 and BITTAL can only be on one track; elsewhere they show "ON T6" and are refused with a message.
  • Pages like the real panels: TB-303 (VCO VCF, ENV), Minimoog (CONTROL, OSC 1-3, MIXER, FILTER, F/L CONTOUR, OUTPUT), DX7 (ALGORITHM, EG, VOICE, LFO), Vital (OSC, FILTER, ENV, LFO, MACROS), Juno-6 (LFO, DCO, HPF VCF, VCF MOD, VCA, ENV, CHORUS).
  • K1-K4 on SEQ = each machine's four main controls: BB-303 CUTOFF · RESO · ENV MOD · DECAY, B-MINI CUTOFF · EMPHASIS · CONTOUR · F DECAY, BX-7 MOD LVL · FEEDBACK · DECAY · RELEASE, BUNO-6 FREQ · RES · ENV · LFO.
  • A BB-303 sound bank (8 sounds); ALGORITHM picks its waveform.

Audio fixes

  • Voices went silent after a while: the voice brake kept fading the newest notes under load. It now lowers a voice cap, fades release tails first and gives the voices back when the load drops.
  • The BUNO-6 chorus got rough after about 6 minutes (a counter lost precision).
  • Notes were lost when a stolen voice ended during its fade.

Full list: CHANGELOG · Manual

Files: bubba-machine-0.8.0-beta.fwsc (the firmware) and bubba-diag-0.8.0-beta.fwsc (diagnostic, no sound), for the web installer; they carry M-VAVE's boot and update loader unchanged.

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