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SQRL-1 is free firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1, built on Felucca. It installs from the browser over USB, and the FM-1 can go back to its official firmware.

You play a pair: a SOUND, which makes the tone, and a NOTE engine, which decides the notes. Hold HOME and the octave from C4 to C5 becomes the wheel: a white key picks the SOUND, a black key the NOTE engine. The SOUNDs include six-operator FM, a drawn wave, a brass model, sung speech, a virtual analog, phase distortion, physical models and drum kits; the NOTE engines play chords, a beat of lanes, a line of lanes over it, a cellular automaton, the Tonnetz, a mutating loop and a strum plate.

The FM-1's screen with the wheel open: the SOUNDs in a ring, FM6 in front, the NOTE engines below The FM-1's screen playing CHORD: G7 drawn on the circle of fifths

Version 1.0.0 · Getting started

Back to the official firmware

Download official V15, FM-1.fwsc, from M-VAVE's download page (FM-1, "PC Firmware") and use the installer's "Return to official V15": it checks the file, saves a complete backup, then installs it. M-VAVE's own updater, M-UPGRADE, does not see an FM-1 running SQRL-1; it works again once the FM-1 is back on V15. Details

SQRL-1 by databurn. Built on Felucca by Leo Kuroshita (@kurogedelic), Hügelton Instruments. GPL-3.0, no warranty. Source: GitHub.
M-VAVE and FM-1 are trademarks of their respective owners. SQRL-1 is not affiliated with or endorsed by M-VAVE or Hügelton Instruments.