Clipper

• Twenty-three engines and 407 sounds play one instrument, led by HYBRID: three oscillators, two filters, a sixteen-slot matrix.
• Other engines cover FM, wavetables, wave sequencing, vector, Juno, analog, acid, strings, physical models, granular and formant voices.
• A step sequencer holds sixteen steps with chords, ratchets, nudges and recording, beside an arpeggiator with fifteen modes.
• Play eight voices in POLY, MONO, LEGATO, UNISON, LAYER, SPLIT or MULTI with two parts on two channels.
• Effects run distortion, chorus, a tempo-synced delay, four reverbs, a DJ filter, master EQ, bus compressor and limiter.
• Save sounds as user presets, and work with UNDO, COMPARE, MORPH, favourites and a randomizer on the FM-1.
• Set the reference A4 between 400 and 480 Hz, pick historical or maqam scales, and load Scala files.
• Connect over USB and TRS MIDI, play MPE controllers, and use the FM-1 as a USB audio interface.

Its modes

HOME

See the sound's name, family, engine and scope, and play its four main controls on the knobs.

PRESETS

Step through every sound, factory and user, one by one.

FX pages

Set the sends, the sound's filter and model, INSERT, delay, reverb, chorus and EQ+COMP.

GLO pages

Set tempo, swing, metronome, fine tune, master, tuning, system readouts and the MIDI settings.

ALGORITHM

Jump to the next family of sounds: PAD, BASS, LEAD, PLCK, KEYS, STAB, FX.

FX, SAVE

Tap to open their pages, and keep playing the keys while one is held.

SEQ, SEL, EDIT, ARP, GLO

Hold these for the sequencer layers: steps on the keys, key and chords, erase, note repeat and fills.

NOTES

Edit the pattern as a piano roll, setting each note's pitch, length and force.

REC

Record what you play into the pattern, and hold it to clear the pattern.

MIDI

Choose the input channel, output channel, bend range, local control, program changes, knob sending and breath control.