Frodhes 0.9.12 runs the FM-1 on both cores with 14 voices in one package and adds Frodhes for the Akai MPC. It also brings the reverb back to its full level on HALL and INFINITE, gives SUITCASE its own clean, round voice again, and adds a cleaner upper register on every electric piano, a clearer MARIMBA mallet tick at high NOISE, richer soft notes on the Move, the plugin and the Akai MPC, a new MIX law on DELAY, DRIVE and REVERB, a fuller velocity response on the electric piano, update notices in the desktop plugin, and a web emulator that plays the FM-1's 14-voice two-core sound.
Download: frodhes.fwsc below (the same file as frodhes-0.9.12.fwsc; the newest is always at https://github.com/leonardoMirabal/frodhes/releases/latest/download/frodhes.fwsc). Try it first in your browser: https://leonardomirabal.github.io/frodhes/
Install
FM-1: download frodhes.fwsc below. Install it from the emulator page (Chrome or Edge, Install on your FM-1 or SMK-37), or from a terminal:
pip install mido python-rtmidi
python3 tools/fm1_install.py frodhes.fwscYour settings, presets and pattern are kept. If anything goes wrong, switch the FM-1 off, hold OCT− and switch it on: that is the USB rescue, and you can install again from there.
Computer (plugin): frodhes-plugin-macos.pkg (or frodhes-plugin-macos.zip), frodhes-plugin-windows.zip, frodhes-plugin-linux-x86_64.zip or frodhes-plugin-linux-aarch64.zip below. How to install each: PLUGIN.md.
Move: you need Schwung on the Move. Install Frodhes with Schwung Manager in a web browser: Install Custom Module > From GitHub URL, leonardoMirabal/frodhes. Or download frodhes-module.tar.gz below and use From Tarball. Details: the Move manual.
Akai MPC: frodhes-mpc.zip below (MPC OS 3.10.1 or later, External Plugin Support on). Copy its folder Frodhes - VST - Frodhes into VST2 Plugins at the top of the MPC's drive. Details: MPC.md.
SMK-37 Pro, SMK-37 Elite, MKE-P37: frodhes-smk37-pro.fwsc, frodhes-smk37-elite.fwsc and frodhes-mke-p37.fwsc below. Read SMK37.md first.
New in 0.9.12
- Akai MPC: Frodhes as an instrument plugin for MPC standalone hardware (MPC OS 3.10.1 or later, with External
Plugin Support on): the electric pianos, vibraphone and marimba, every effect, 16 voices and the factory presets as
programs. Its screen has the desktop plugin's look, with large knobs in groups of four for the Q-Links. Download
frodhes-mpc.zip; install steps in
MPC.md. - Desktop plugin: it tells you when a new Frodhes is out, downloads the installer in the background, checks it and
shows an INSTALL button that opens it; close your music software, then install. SETTINGS > UPDATES OFF turns it
off.
Changes
- One FM-1 package, on both cores.
frodhes.fwscnow runs the voices on one core and the effects on the other:
14 voices on every instrument, the reverb at the full sample rate and about 6.5 ms from a MIDI note to the
headphone jack. The web installer installs it too. The separate one-core package is gone; installing over it keeps
your settings, presets and pattern. - A cleaner upper register on every electric piano type, on every device: above C5 the tone stays clear and
bell-like when you play hard, instead of turning glassy, at the same volume. BELL above 64 now lifts the top
octaves less, so high notes start clean. - Richer soft notes on the Move, the desktop plugin and the Akai MPC: soft notes in the bass and middle keep
their warmth longer as they ring. The hardest notes keep the same punch as on the FM-1. - MIX on DELAY, DRIVE and REVERB: up to the middle the dry sound stays full and the effect fades in; past the middle
the effect stays full and the dry fades out, so the top is the effect alone. The card shows DRY, 50/50 and WET,
with the bar changing colour past the middle. - Presets keep their settings, so most factory presets have a little more echo and reverb than before; DREAM and
DREAM PAD, set past the middle, have a little less dry sound. - With the INFINITE reverb on FREEZE, what you play over the frozen sound stays heard at any MIX.
- Wider dynamics: soft and medium notes on the electric piano are quieter, so the keys answer your touch over a wider
range; the loudest notes are unchanged. RESPONSE LIGHT keeps the old feel. - VIBES and MARIMBA come down with it, so switching sounds or presets keeps the balance you know. Only their volume
changes: the compressor, DRIVE, the touch wah and the tape delay respond to them exactly as before. - The reverb at its full level on both cores. HALL and INFINITE on the FM-1, the Move, the desktop plugin and
the Akai MPC: a little more reverb under the notes (HALL about 1.5 dB, INFINITE about 0.6 dB), back to the level the
one-core FM-1 had. The full-rate reverb's extra air above 11 kHz had made it sound as loud while it carried less
reverb in the range of the notes. TONE, DECAY and the reverb's character are unchanged. - SUITCASE has its own voice again, on every device: clean and round, with no bark (its pickups sit further from
the tines), through its amp and speaker cabinet. It no longer sounds like a STAGE 77 through a speaker. Same volume;
the other types are unchanged. Presets built on SUITCASE sound rounder. - The web emulator sounds like the FM-1: it plays the same 14-voice two-core sound as the FM-1's package, with
14 voices on every instrument and the reverb at the full sample rate. - A clearer mallet tick on MARIMBA at high NOISE: from NOISE 64 up the contact tick grows a little more, so at the
top of the knob it stands out on the highest notes too. NOISE up to 64, the default included, sounds as before.
Fixed
- Even attacks after a silence on the FM-1. A note played after half a second or more of silence now starts the
same way whenever it lands. Before, some of these notes started a little harder than others, by chance of their
timing. - Smooth preset changes at full load on the FM-1. Changing presets while all 14 voices ring through most of the
effects no longer stutters for a moment: the change stays smooth and no note is cut off. - Desktop plugin at unusual sample rates (below 44.1 kHz, such as 22.05 kHz, or rates outside the 44.1 and 48 kHz
families): the highest notes keep their full level and no longer fold back as faint off-key tones. The plugin's
latency at those rates is a few milliseconds longer.
Full manual: https://github.com/leonardoMirabal/frodhes/blob/main/docs/MANUAL.md · Built on Dinghy. GPL-3.0.