Three things owners asked for: two sounds from the keys at once, the names of the notes and chords you play, and your music back when you switch on.
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://ghoulbox.messy.quest/webapp/installer/ in Chrome or Edge and press Install.
User guide (PDF) · Play it in your browser · Hear every sound · Watch the 2.0 demo
What's new in 2.1
- Two sounds at once (KEYS). Tap HOME on the home screen until KEYS shows (after MIXER and CLOCK). LAYER plays every key on the selected track and a second track together: a recorder doubled by strings, a pad under a melody. SPLIT divides the keyboard: the keys below the split play the second track, the rest the selected one, so a drone or bass goes in your left hand and the tune in your right. KNOB 2 picks the second track, KNOB 3 the split point, KNOB 4 its octave. Saved with the project.
- Note and chord names. While you play, the top of the screen names what you're playing: D4, Dm, A7, Gsus4, C/E. It never covers another message. MENU › CONTROL › NOTE NAMES turns it off.
- Your music comes back at power-on. RESTORE LAST is ON again: the FM-1 wakes up with what you were playing (stop for a few seconds before switching off, so it can save). A new FM-1 still starts with the power-on scene, and RESTORE LAST OFF gives you the scene every time. Updating switches it ON once; whatever you choose after that is kept.
- The installer and the editor now match the site's dungeon look, and the installer shows the version it installs.
Your saved music
Projects, user presets and settings from earlier versions load as before; older projects load with KEYS off.
Notes
- Tested on one FM-1. Install at your own risk.
- The FM-1 Firmware Hub picks up
ghoulbox-2.1.fwscfrom this release.