Berlinan

• Berlinan is a generative Berlin School sequencer whose voices repeat, phase against each other on uneven loops and earn mutations.
• The FM-1 makes no sound: each voice goes out on its own MIDI channel to your synthesizers over USB.
• The ensemble holds two plucks, a bass, a pad, a lead, a drone and a heartbeat.
• You play from the panel: voice keys mute and select, white keys move the harmony, other keys fire scenes and snapshots.
• PRESETS picks the template, ALGORITHM picks the mode, EDIT re-rolls unlocked voices and OCT+ rolls a new seed.
• MASTER is a density fader that thins the ensemble from full down to silence at the next bar.
• SAVE keeps the project and six snapshot slots in memory, and OCT- undoes the last twenty states.
• The FM-1 sends MIDI clock, Start and Stop over USB, or follows a clock from USB, the TRS jack or both.

Its modes

HOME: Perform

You watch the voice lanes, the horizon of coming changes and the convergence, and set tempo, the arranger, form and ambient mode.

ENV: Voice

You see the selected voice's strip, generation and lifecycle, and set its MIDI channel.

ARP: Pattern

You read the selected voice's pattern step by step and set the ratchet probability.

LFO: CC

You view the selected voice's controller lanes and the template's scenes.

SEQ: Arranger

You follow the arranger's phases, the bars to the next change and which voices are in.

FX: Delay

You read a note division and its time in milliseconds per voice for your own delays and echoes.

GLO: Setup

You set the root, the clock source and its input, and the lights, and read the seed.