fm1-dub

• DUB-1 plays generative dub techno by itself: chord stabs into a tape echo, FM pings, sub bass, kick, hats and crackle.
• ALGORITHM steps each layer through its voices: seven chord voices, five ping voices, five bass voices and five drum kits.
• PRESETS picks one of eight pieces, and the keys set the scale, each key adding or taking out its note.
• Tap SEL for PERFORM, where the knobs sweep Filter, Wet, Energy and Duck and the keys mute, solo and throw.
• A tap on REC holds the echo, and holding REC opens a grid of sixteen effects played on the white keys.
• Write chords into eight slots on the Chords page, or draw the drums' five lanes of sixteen steps on the Pattern page.
• It keeps all eight pieces in memory, saving by itself while resting or when you hold GLO for half a second.
• MIDI comes in over USB and the TRS jack, the grid follows MIDI clock, and notes and clock go out over USB.

Its modes

PERFORM

Put the master actions Filter, Wet, Energy and Duck on the knobs and use the keys to mute, solo and hold dub moves.

Chords

See and edit the eight chord slots, setting each root, kind and type and choosing Endless or Loop play.

Dub

Steer the whole machine with the Filter, Evolve, Motion and Drift.

Key

Set the piece's tempo, root, mode and swing.

Chord

Shape the stabs with Density, Throws, Wet and Cutoff.

Pings

Set the pings' Density, Octave, Wet and Cloud.

Noise

Shape the crackle groove's Density, Air, Tone and Decay and pick its character.

Bass

Set the sub bass's Density, Octave, Groove and Fifth.

Drums

Set the kick's Density, the hats' Hits, the Hats level and their Tone.

Space

Set how much goes to the echo, the echo time, the feedback in seconds and the reverb.