Kitten Synths

• Thirteen engines cover 250 sounds, led by MUUG, a Moog-style three-oscillator synth with 100 factory sounds and a ladder filter.
• Build MUUG sounds on the FM-1 itself across oscillator, mixer, modulation and filter contour pages, kept as your OWN patch.
• Play three synth tracks, a grey LITE synth part and drums together, picking each with the ALGORITHM knob.
• The drums give 16 sounds on the white keys, 37 kits, ghost and loud hits, and your own sampled kits.
• Press REC to overdub while the loop runs, with 64 steps per track, parameter locks, swing, nudge and a piano roll.
• Store loops into sections A to D, chain them live and record a whole song as you play it.
• Autosave catches your work after a short pause, including the LITE part and your MUUG patches, and restores it at power-on.
• USB carries eight audio channels, the stereo master plus every synth track and the drums, for separate recording in a DAW.

Its modes

HOME

Shows the five tracks, opens the full-screen visualizer, and held, opens the settings menu.

FX

Hold it and the keys fire 27 punch-in effects over the whole mix, with DUST and DUCK on the knobs.

EDIT

Hold it to erase a sound or note while the loop plays, and shift, double or transpose it.

ARP

Hold it for note repeat on the grid, with RATE on the first knob.

SEQ

Hold it to toggle the 16 steps of the page and set sound, division, swing and length.

SEL

Hold it to pick the song's key, chord, scale and transposition.

GLO

Hold it to mute and solo the five tracks, set their levels, tap tempo and trigger a fill.

SAVE

Hold it to play sections A to D, store loops into them, chain them and record a song.

DRUMS

Shows the step grid for the chosen drum sound and the kit, with TUNE and DECAY per sound.

REC

Sets recording mode, loop length, start and quantize before your first note.