AMB-1-Evolved

• Generative ambient playing runs across four layers: pad, melody, bass and pulse.
• Hold ENV, ARP, LFO or SEQ and turn PRESETS to pick from 16 sounds per layer.
• PRESETS steps through 32 musical themes, the first eight being the familiar AMB-1 recipes.
• ALGORITHM picks one of 20 scales, and HOME plus ALGORITHM switches between the Garden, Walk, Mirror, Rotate and Gravity generators.
• PLAY starts or rests the generative playback, REC freezes the harmonic state while reverb rings on, and EDIT calls the next chord.
• The note keys add or remove tones from the note pool, and OCT minus and OCT plus shift the melody octave.
• A short press of SAVE stores all 32 theme states, and holding SAVE about 1.5 seconds resets the current theme to its recipe.
• A USB data cable connects the FM-1 to the computer, and MIDI out is set on the Setup page.

Its modes

Garden

Set tempo and the generative development of the whole theme with K1 to K4 for Tempo, Evolve, Motion and Drift.

Pad

Shape the pad layer with Level, Swell, Bright and Colour.

Bells

Set Level, Density, Tone and Octave of the melody loops.

Bass

Control Level, Octave, Glide and Fifth of the bass foundation.

Pulse

Set Level, Hits, Swing and Hats of the rhythm.

Space

Dial in Echo, Echo time, Reverb and Size.

Setup

Choose Root, Tune, MIDI out and Lights.