New
- Bluetooth MIDI: LOOM-8 shows up as a MIDI device ("FM-1") for you to pair with your phone, tablet or computer. MIDI goes both ways, and a clock over Bluetooth plays steady (set your DAW's clock delay to about 75 ms early to line it up).
- USB MIDI host: set USB PORT to MIDI host (GLO's SEL list on Setup) and plug a USB MIDI keyboard, controller or synth in through a powered USB hub. It plays LOOM-8, and LOOM-8's MIDI out plays it, no computer needed. USB PORT goes back to computer at every start.
- New engine: MIDI, a silent track for playing other gear over MIDI, with eight knobs you can assign to any CCs (KNOB 1..8 CC on its SEL list); they lock and move with motion like any knob.
- New step trick: flam, a softer grace hit just before the step's own.
- Move a pattern an octave: on Steps, hold SEQ and press OCT- or OCT+.
- Clock: internal, receive or send (Setup's CLOCK). Receive follows a MIDI clock coming in (and its start and stop) and plays at its own tempo when none comes; send keeps time and sends the clock; internal does neither. New projects receive; your projects keep sending if they sent.
LOOM-8's sounds: the installer now also puts LOOM-8's own sounds (the kits' drums and the instruments) in the sample bank, after your samples. If they don't fit, it asks first: make your samples smaller to fit, install without them, or stop.
Install (Chrome or Edge, the FM-1 plugged in): https://charlesvestal.github.io/fm1-loom/install/ — or download loom-0.8.fwsc below.
Manual: https://charlesvestal.github.io/fm1-loom/manual/ · Your own samples: https://charlesvestal.github.io/fm1-loom/samples/