LCD-4

• LCD-4 makes the FM-1 a four-track groovebox: a drum machine and three synth tracks.
• Sixteen synth sounds run from modelled circuits, from Acid, Mono and Fat basses to Poly, E.Piano, Strings, Scream and Arp.
• The drum track holds four kits of eleven parts: an 808, a 909, an arcade console and a rhythm box.
• You write 16-step patterns live with REC, step by step, or by pressing steps on the white keys.
• Hold a step for its note, length and two knob locks, plus slides, ratchets and accents.
• Sixteen patterns chain up to 64 long, and a chain of chords the synth tracks follow.
• Hold FX and a white key for repeats, stutter, reverse, filter sweeps, crush and echo, written onto steps as you play.
• Everything saves to the FM-1 by itself a few seconds after a change while stopped, or at once with SAVE.

Its modes

Patterns

Pick the next of sixteen patterns on the white keys, build chains, and set Tempo, Swing, Length and Key.

Steps

Turn the white keys into a synth track's 16 steps and hold one to set its note, length and locks.

Sound

Turn the four knobs for the selected sound, or for the chosen drum part's Tune, Decay, Tone and Level.

Track

Set the track's Level, Pan and how much it sends to the Delay and the Reverb.

FX

Play the sixteen punch-in effects and set the delay Time, Feedback, Space and Punch.

Setup

Set Tune, MIDI out and Clock, and load one of four demo songs.