Niagara Drift

• Niagara Drift turns the FM-1 into a drone synth with two always-on drones you tune, shape and move.
• Each drone blends sine to square, adds a partner at an interval, a sub or subharmonic and noise into its own filter.
• Twelve presets sit on the white keys, from Niagara and Abyss to Tanpura, Whistle, Cathedral and Metal.
• You hold the top four white keys for the Weight, Shift, Clean and Wash gestures, which fade out as slowly as you held them.
• Store 36 scenes of your own across banks A, B and C by holding SAVE and tapping a white key.
• Tap a scene key to morph there, or press harder to crossfade partway and hold the blend with SEL.
• REC records your knob moves and loops them for up to five minutes.
• The Ultra LFO, the Swell, Drift, Wander and Age keep the sound breathing, through a four-type delay into a reverb that reaches Inf.

Its modes

Play · HOME

Set each drone's pitch and cutoff, then its level and resonance on the second page.

Tone · ENV

Mix each drone's noise and its white-to-pink colour, then set character, feedback, Age and Drift.

Osc · EDIT

Blend each drone's X-Wave from sine to square, set pulse width, then osc mix and drive.

Partner · SEQ

Choose each drone's partner interval and detune, then Shift's move, pitch glide, Wander and its scale.

LFO · LFO

Set the four LFO depths, then rate mod, which wave does it, cross-mod amount and delay wobble.

Swell · ARP

Shape the breathing gate with rate, depth, shape and swing.

Delay and Reverb · FX

Pick delay type, time, repeats and mix, then reverb type, length, damp and mix.

Setup · GLO

Set fade, switch and scene times, plus tune, stereo width and key pressure.