386DX

• 386DX makes the FM-1 a singing robot that performs karaoke lines to notes you play on its keys.
• You type lyrics on the keys, then press REC and play one note per syllable to give the line its tune.
• Keys, Bass and Drums back the voice, each bar playing one of sixteen 16-step patterns you edit on the white keys.
• Bass offers deep sub, acid squelch, reese, FM growl, pluck bass, wobble, boom and fat saw, with six drum kits.
• Sixteen punch-in effects sit under the white keys, from lo-pass and crush to brrrs, reverse, chop, ring mod and half time.
• Change lets you shift, pitch and weave patterns together while the song plays, with undo and redo under HOME.
• A companion web page connects over USB to fill the slots with standards or imported karaoke and MIDI files.

Its modes

Sing

Watch the robot's face move with the voice and see the words light up as they are sung.

Song

Arrange the rows of the song, choose each row's line and write notes for the words.

Steps

Edit the selected backing track's 16-step pattern for a bar on the white keys.

Sound

Pick and shape the selected track's sound, voice character, bass and keys engines, or a drum kit.

Envelope

Set the sound in time: attack, release, filter, and the Voice's glide and vibrato.

Effects

Dial reverb, tape echo, drive, squeeze, pump and filter, and punch in sixteen effects on the white keys.

Mixer

Set each track's level, reverb and echo, and mute tracks with the black keys.

Setup

Set tempo, length and meter, and load, save, rename or start songs in the eight slots.

Change

Shift, pitch or weave the bar's pattern for the selected track while the song plays.