Frodhes 0.9.1: a physically modelled Fender Rhodes electric piano for the M-VAVE FM-1. Every note is computed live from the mechanics of a Rhodes (hammer, tine, tonebar, pickup); there are no samples.
Download: frodhes-0.9.1.fwsc below. Try it first in your browser: https://leonardomirabal.github.io/frodhes/
Install
pip install mido python-rtmidi
python3 tools/fm1_install.py frodhes-0.9.1.fwscIf anything goes wrong, switch the FM-1 off, hold OCT− and switch it on to get the USB rescue, then install again.
New in 0.9.1
- TRS MIDI In (#1): the FM-1's 3.5 mm TRS MIDI input works, for DAWless setups. Notes, CCs, program changes and MIDI clock come in exactly as over USB.
- MIDI page (press GLO three times): CHANNEL (ALL or 1–16, for USB and TRS alike; the FM-1 sends its notes on it), TRS IN on / off, CLOCK.
- Sequencer, a pattern recorder on the SEQ button:
- Play notes or chords and they loop over 1–16 bars.
- QUANT (off to 1/16T) and SWING apply as the pattern plays, so you can change them at any time.
- Record live with overdub, or step by step while it's stopped: notes go on the cursor's step, and holding the keys while turning ALGORITHM makes them longer.
- UNDO the last pass, ERASE by holding keys, DELETE a step, or hold SEQ to clear everything.
- The screen shows what plays now and next in big letters, plus the bar as 16 cells. ALGORITHM moves step by step and PRESETS bar by bar.
- Chord mode (CHORD page, SEQ button): one key plays a chord. Use DIATONIC to follow the SCALE page, or pick a fixed shape (MAJ, MIN7, SUS4…), with inversion, voicing and strum.
- The phaser is now reached with SELECT (or its PERFORM knob), as the SEQ button opens CHORD and SEQUENCER.
Full manual: https://github.com/leonardoMirabal/frodhes/blob/main/docs/MANUAL.md · Built on Dinghy. GPL-3.0.