The biggest GHOULBOX yet: a new Felucca underneath, 12 voices, a drone latch, a crank for the hurdy-gurdy, medieval tunings and a cave's ambience.
Install or update: first save a backup (the installer doesn't make one): open the web editor, connect the FM-1, and on the Settings tab press Save backup. Then open https://jasonpersinger.github.io/ghoulbox-fm1-dungeon-synth/ in Chrome or Edge and press Install.
User guide (PDF) · Hear every sound
What's new in 2.0
- Built on Felucca 1.4.1 (it was 1.0.5.2), with everything Felucca has added since: see Felucca's releases.
- 12 voices shared by the four tracks (it was 8), so chords on one track cut fewer notes on another.
- Drone latch. Hold GLO and press the top-row key for a track: OP6 (track 1), PIT (2), GLO (3) or MONO (4). A chord you play keeps sounding after you let go, so you can switch tracks and play over it, or crank the hurdy-gurdy with both hands. A new chord replaces it; pressing one of its notes stops it. Other tracks never steal its voices.
- Turn the hurdy-gurdy's crank. Set GURDY's COUP to CRANK and the SELECT knob becomes the wheel: the faster you turn, the louder and brighter the strings; stop and they fall silent; a flick of the wrist kicks the trompette's buzz.
- Medieval tunings. TEMP (press SCL twice for the CHORD page, KNOB 3) tunes a track in Pythagorean, meantone or just intonation from its ROOT: pure fifths and drones that ring without beating.
- Cave ambience. AMB and CRKL (FX › TAPE, KNOB 3 and 4) lay a low cave wind and a torch's crackle under everything, even with the song stopped, using no track and no voice. Off by default; it saves with the project.
- Three dungeon scales: Phrygian dominant, Hungarian minor and double harmonic.
- A USB rescue. If GHOULBOX fails to start twice in a row, or you hold OCT− while switching on, the FM-1 starts in a rescue mode (no sound, no menu) where the installer still works.
Your saved music
Projects, user presets and settings from earlier versions load as before. Projects from before 2.0 load with the ambience off and every track in equal temperament, so they sound as they did.
Notes
- Tested on one FM-1. Install at your own risk.
- The FM-1 Firmware Hub picks up
ghoulbox-2.0.fwscfrom this release.