charlesvestal/fm1-loom v0.6-beta

LOOM-8 0.6-beta

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Your projects: projects from 0.5-beta to 0.5.4-beta open and are converted. Projects saved by 0.6 don't open in older versions.

Changes (things that work differently now)

• MIDI channels are fixed: T1-T8 listen on channels 1-8. A keyboard on channel 1 now always plays T1. Set it to channel 12-16 to play whichever track is selected.
• A track's MIDI CHANNEL row is now MIDI OUT: on or off.
• Notes that come in over MIDI are no longer sent back out.
• SAVE with a step held no longer clears that step's locks. Hold the step, press SEL, pick CLEAR LOCKS.
• Arrange's KNOB 4 now picks the selected track's pattern. The metronome is still on REC's knobs.
• When a kit track drives the pump, only the melodic tracks duck; the drums keep their punch.

Scenes and song

• 32 scenes instead of 16. On Arrange and Song, OCT switches the white keys between scenes 1-16 and 17-32.
• Arrange shows a level meter beside each track. COND and THROW light when one of their steps plays.
• Every page's header shows the scene playing.
• Mute single drum sounds in a scene: on Arrange, hold a kit track's black key and tap white keys 1-11.
• Jump or loop bars: on the Bar page, hold SEQ and press black keys 1-4 (the pattern's bars). One key jumps to that bar at the next bar line; two held loop that range; one tapped twice loops that bar. The loop is saved with the pattern.
• DOUBLE PATTERN (Steps' SEL list) doubles the pattern's length and copies it, locks included, into the new half.

Sound

• Shared LFO, on GLO's new LFO page: one LFO that moves several tracks at once, synced from 16 bars to 1/16, or free. Targets: cutoff, resonance, pitch, pan, volume, sends or character. Black keys 1-8 pick the tracks. On a kit, white keys 1-11 pick one sound, 12 all of them.
• Sample engine: a Loop page with loop start and loop length. The loop point is crossfaded, so it doesn't click.
• Strum builds each key's chord in the conductor's scale: in C major the white keys give C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, Bdim. Hold several keys to set your own chord; it then moves along the scale (a C7 gives Dm7 on D, G7 on G).
• Kits: each sound on a step has its own velocity. Hold the step and turn KNOB 1.
• knit's detune now detunes oscillator 2 too (up to 20 cents).
• Weave shows every bar (OCT) and has a new rule, "pitch".

Editing

• Copy and paste a bar, a step, or only its locks. Steps' SEL list has COPY BAR, PASTE BAR and PASTE LOCKS ONLY. A held step's SEL list has COPY STEP and PASTE STEP.
• Hold SEL and turn a knob to erase that knob's automation in the pattern (or only on the steps you hold).
• Mix: hold several black keys to solo several tracks.
• On Steps, hold SEQ: OCT moves the keys' octave and PRESETS changes the track's sound, so you can try notes before writing them.
• LOOP THROWS (GLO's SEL list): "drift" leaves the pattern where the loop throw ended instead of jumping back in time.
• The drawings on the sound pages (envelopes, filter, waveform, LFO, the faders on Mix) now move with automation and locks while the pattern plays.
• On Steps, steps with notes light their LEDs brighter than empty steps.
• HOME's SEL list opens LOAD PROJECT and SAVE TO on the project you have open, marked "(open)".

MIDI

• Channels: T1-T8 on 1-8, FX I on 9, FX II on 10, the master and the scenes on 11, the selected track on 12-16.
• CC control of each track's level, pan, sends, cutoff, resonance, attack, decay, release, glide and LFO amount; a kit's sounds (mute, pan, level); FX I and II; the master (EQ, color, pump, level). The full table is in the manual. While recording, incoming CCs are written into the pattern's automation.
• CC OUT (GLO's SEL list, on by default): turning a mapped knob sends its CC, so a DAW can record your moves. CCs that came in, locks and automation aren't sent.
• Scenes: Program Change 0-31 or notes 36-67 on channel 11 select scenes 1-32, timed like Arrange's white keys. SCENES OUT (GLO's SEL list, off by default) sends a Program Change when you change scenes.
• Notes out are on by default (Setup's NOTES) in new projects and in projects from 0.5-beta. Each track has MIDI OUT on its EDIT pages' SEL list.
• A kit hit's MIDI note now ends when the hit does.
• No stuck notes: a note played again while it's still sounding gets its own note-off, and ALL NOTES OFF ends every note LOOM-8 sent.

Fixes

• Clearing the scene that's playing hands over to the nearest scene.
• Inserting or deleting song slots while the song plays keeps its place.
• CLEAR LOCKS can be undone and keeps a kit's tunings.
• PASTE brings the locks with the steps, and refuses to paste a kit pattern onto a synth track or the reverse.
• A refused paste no longer writes the held step when you let go.
• A mono sample retriggered no longer clicks.
• Slices play to the note's gate, however short.
• The curves drawn on the pages no longer show notches.
• The REC strip on the kit pages shows the steps written.
• SAVE with no slot saves to the slot SAVE TO shows.
• No empty Players page when the player is off.
• A repeated MIDI note is no longer cut short.
• A removed step comes back plain when you write it again.

Built on GitHub: this release was built and tested from its source on GitHub and signed with build provenance. BUILDING.md shows how to check it.

Install (Chrome or Edge, FM-1 plugged in): https://charlesvestal.github.io/fm1-loom/install/ — or download loom-0.6-beta.fwsc below. Your projects, presets and samples stay.
Manual: https://charlesvestal.github.io/fm1-loom/manual/ · Your own samples: https://charlesvestal.github.io/fm1-loom/samples/