BEETLE

• BEETLE turns the FM1 into a six lane tracker with five synth channels and one digital drum lane.
• The synth voices include VA, SID-inspired and NES-inspired types across twelve oscillator types and eight active patches.
• The drum lane plays 14 built-in sounds with two hits per step, or three when NOTE3 is on.
• You write notes from the built-in keyboard with REC armed, moving the grid with K1, K2 and K3.
• Forty-eight patterns of 1 to 16 steps chain into songs of up to 64 positions.
• Sixteen Punch-In effects such as REPEAT, TAPE STOP, BITCRUSH and DJ ISOLATOR play from the white keys and record.
• Twelve project slots hold patterns, songs, instruments, drums, mixer and effect settings, with encrypted backups to a computer.
• A USB-C cable carries audio into a computer as a stereo master or six separate mono tracks.

Its modes

Tracker

Edit up to 16 steps across six lanes, choosing channel, pattern, step and value with the encoders.

Instrument Editor

Shape synth types, oscillators, envelopes and filters for the eight active patch slots.

Instrument Library

Store, load, copy and rename eight named patches kept inside the current project.

Mixer

Set volume, pan, mute, solo and swing for each of the six lanes.

Live Mixer

Mute and solo lanes as temporary performance overrides while SONG is on.

MASTER FX

Adjust the EQ, compressor and reverb blocks and change their processing order.

Punch-In FX

Trigger and hold sixteen performance effects from the white keys and record them.

Song Chains

Arrange up to 64 song positions, each drawing its six channels from different patterns.

Projects

Create, save, load and manage the twelve project slots and related tools.

HELP

Browse thirteen read-only chapters covering the tracker, patterns, song chains and more.