FM-1 firmware · 0.1.0-beta.1
GuitChordi
A strummed guitar and string instrument: pick chords on the black keys, then play them freely, strummed in rhythm or arpeggiated, across sixteen sounds.
- Made by
- Stoogs
- Released
- October 26, 2026
- Install
- On the FM-1 Firmware Hub · source on GitHub
- Scan
- Not scanned yet What we checked
- Last checked
- October 31, 2026
What GuitChordi does
- Sixteen instruments cover nylon, steel, jumbo, palm-muted, clean, jazz, crunch and heavy guitars, harp, violin, pizzicato cello, bass and dulcimer.
- Fifty chord style banks span jazz, lo-fi, rock, blues, pop, soul, folk and ambient, each loading eleven chords.
- Eleven black keys choose the chord and sixteen light keys strum it in soft, normal and accent zones.
- Strum and Arp repeat a held chord with eighteen beat divisions, gate settings, swing and a strum sweep from instant to 250 ms.
- Turn SELECT for tempo between 40 and 240 BPM, and MASTER for output level.
- Knob 4 in Freeplay gives each slot one of six voicings, and GLO K3 offers fourteen guitar tunings.
- Hold ENV for three seconds to lock the chord while rhythm parameters and tempo stay editable.
- SAVE keeps the mode, tempo, bank, slot edits, instrument and settings, and holding GLO three seconds opens a full reset.
Its modes
- Freeplay
- Black keys pick a chord silently and only the white contacts you touch sound.
- Strum
- Hold a black chord key and the chord repeats as strums across ten patterns.
- FX page
- Knobs set intensity, transpose, room and the per-slot chord voicing.
- GLO
- Global settings for gate tails, strum humanity, guitar tuning and rhythm velocity.
- HOME
- Returns you to the performance page to carry on playing.
- EDIT
- Reassigns the chord on the selected black key or resets slots to factory.
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