NACHTFAHRT

• Eight generative Berlin School pieces play themselves from the moment the FM-1 is switched on.
• Five layers run together: a chord Drone, a plucked Sequence, Sequence 2, a gliding Lead and an Atmosphere.
• White keys play the Lead in the piece's scale, and three notes with a pause become the piece's theme.
• Black keys hold eleven effects while pressed, and holding REC opens a grid of sixteen on the white keys.
• Each layer's filter wanders in octaves around the knob you set, shown by a cyan dot and the meters.
• A tape echo that ping-pongs, a plate reverb and a Pattern page for writing the steps by hand.
• PERFORM turns the knobs into Filter, Wet, Energy and Sweep, with mutes, solos, Drop and Forget on the keys.
• It saves all eight pieces by itself while resting, or at once when you hold GLO.

Its modes

Nachtfahrt

Set Filter over everything, Evolve, Motion and Drift, the bars per chord.

Key

Set the tempo, root, mode and how the sequences follow the chord.

Drone

Shape the held chord with Pedal, Reso, Phaser and Attack, plus its sound and Move pages.

Sequence

Set Density, Octave, Length and Grid for the main plucked sequence, with sound, Repeats and Move pages behind it.

Repeats

Set the two echo-time repeats of each sequence note, the classic Berlin School fill.

Lead

Set Phrases, Octave, Glide and Vibrato for the gliding call-and-answer voice.

Sequence 2

Set Chance, Octave, Length and Level for the second, usually shorter line.

Pattern

Write the sequences' steps, octave jumps, skips and accents on the keys.

Atmosphere

Choose and shape the background of Wind, Surf, Space, Air, Tape or Rain.

PERFORM

Take Filter, Wet, Energy and Sweep on the knobs and mute, solo or drop layers from the keys.