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• You play a monosynth with two oscillators, a sub and noise, through a Classic or Acid filter with drive.
• The arpeggiator plays held notes in six modes over up to four octaves across 32 rhythms, with swing and latch.
• A 32-step sequencer keeps four sequences with rests and legato, timed by the arp's rhythm and transposed from the keys.
• Press REC for a random sound, or hold REC and press OCT+ for AFX mode, where every key plays differently.
• The keys answer to velocity and pressure, and SAVE stores the sound into one of 32 patches.
• Bass Station II patch dumps and whole banks load and send over USB, so an editor can store your sounds.
• MIDI arrives over USB, Bluetooth and TRS, and the USB cable also makes the FM-1 a sound card.

Its modes

OSC FILTER

Set oscillator 2's tuning, the filter type, oscillator 1's wave, cutoff, resonance, drive and fine tune.

OSC MIX

Set oscillator sync, oscillator 2's wave, glide, ring modulation, noise and both pulse widths.

OSC TUNE

Tune oscillator 1 coarse and fine, set filter key tracking and the mod envelope's pulse width depths.

MOD ENV

Set the mod envelope's attack, decay, sustain and release and its depths on pitch and cutoff.

AMP ENV

Set the volume envelope and how velocity affects loudness and the mod envelope's depths.

LFO 1

Pick the LFO's destination, wave, rate and amount.

ARP

Switch the arpeggiator on and choose its mode, retrigger, latch, octaves, swing, tempo and rhythm.

SEQ

Record and edit the four 32-step sequences, step by step, with notes, rests, legato and gate.

PATCH

Pick a patch, save the sound into it, and send it out as a SysEx dump.