GHOULBOX can now compose. DREAM writes slow ambient music for your four sounds and keeps it changing; RING keeps a hurdy-gurdy's drones sounding through the rests.
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 · Every free FM-1 firmware
What's new in 2.3
- DREAM: let the FM-1 compose. Tap HOME on the home screen until DREAM shows (after MIXER, CLOCK and KEYS), pick a MOOD (minor, Dorian, Phrygian, harmonic minor, major, Mixolydian) and press a key. The FM-1 writes a slow piece in that key for your four tracks and plays it. Each track gets a part that suits its sound: a drone holds the key note, a bass walks the chords, a pad or choir holds them, a harp or lute breaks them into notes, a melodic sound sings a phrase and answers it, drums play a slow ritual. Choose your sounds first: different sounds, a different piece.
- EVOL on: the piece keeps changing by itself, a new chord, a new phrase, a part resting or coming back, while the drone and the opening phrase stay.
- DENS sets how busy it is, DRFT how often it changes.
- What DREAM writes is ordinary patterns: play along in key, edit them, save the project. It replaces all four tracks' patterns (the first time it asks).
- RING: drones through the rests. On a real hurdy-gurdy the drones sound as long as the wheel turns. A new RING page on GURDY tracks (EDIT, after DRONE and WHEEL) keeps the drones sounding when the sequencer reaches a rest; they stop when you stop. On for HURDY GURDY, DRONE WHEEL and BAGPIPE. Thanks to the owner on Reddit who asked for it.
- The guide has both (53 pages).
Your saved music
Projects, user presets and settings from earlier versions load as before, with RING off, so they sound as they did. Projects saved with 2.3 show as EMPTY on older firmware.
Notes
- Tested on one FM-1. Install at your own risk.
- The FM-1 Firmware Hub picks up
ghoulbox-2.3.fwscfrom this release.