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FM-1 firmware · v0.1.0

acid-fm1

An acid bassline synth and pattern generator in the spirit of classic 303-style instruments, with an arpeggiator and live note mode.

Made by
kclack
Released
October 23, 2026
Install
On GitHub
Scan
Scanned, nothing harmful found · Oct 31 What we checked
Last checked
October 31, 2026

What acid-fm1 does

  • A monophonic saw and pulse voice runs through an original saturated four-pole filter with cutoff, resonance, envelope, decay and accent.
  • Patterns hold up to 64 steps with notes, rests, accents, slides, per-step probability, one to four ratchets and cutoff locks.
  • Independent note, accent and slide loop lengths, swing, four directions, root and scale choice, seeded generation and mutation reshape a pattern.
  • Three tempo-related modulators with six shapes, including eight-point curves, route to cutoff, resonance, pulse width, drive, pitch or level.
  • Seven distortion modes, a mono feedback delay with stereo taps, chorus and compact ambience finish the sound.
  • PLAY starts and stops the pattern, SELECT turns through the sixteen pages, and K1 to K4 edit the four displayed values.
  • Live mode plays a last-note-priority voice, ARP switches to a held-note arpeggiator, and REC writes notes into steps.
  • SAVE stores the whole patch and pattern in one of four slots, with USB and TRS MIDI carrying notes, transport and clock.

Its modes

Voice
Set cutoff, resonance, envelope amount and drive for the main voice.
Envelope
Shape decay, accent, slide and gate.
Effects
Dial delay mix, feedback, ambience and chorus.
Mod 1/2/3
Set each modulator's rate, depth, shape and cycle length.
Sequencer
Pick a step with SELECT and edit its note offset, gate, accent and slide.
Circuit
Adjust pulse width, sub, bass boost and noise.
Clock
Set BPM, swing, clock source and mode.
Distortion
Choose distortion type, mix, clipping and volume.
Pattern
Set pattern length, direction and separate accent and slide lengths.
FX space
Set delay division, vibrato rate, vibrato depth and tracking.

What Les checked

acid-fm1 v0.1.0Scanned October 31, 2026

What we checked for

  • The file is exactly the one its author published
  • It's the same file we saw when this release first came out
  • It opens cleanly as an FM-1 firmware, nothing damaged
  • It doesn't show up on your computer as a keyboard, mouse or other input device
  • It doesn't show up as a USB drive or network adapter
  • Its text mentions no computer command tools, like PowerShell, Terminal or a download command

What we found

  • MIDI and audio, as expected

StatusScanned, nothing harmful found

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