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FM-1 firmware · v1.3

Prysm

A four-voice wavetable FM synth with chained operators, a self-oscillating filter, a lo-fi drum lane and a matching CLAP plugin for your DAW.

Made by
Nicholas Pratt
Released
October 26, 2026
Install
On GitHub
Scan
Scanned, nothing harmful found · Oct 31 What we checked
Last checked
October 31, 2026

What Prysm does

  • Four voices each run two oscillators, every one a chain of three wavetable operators using FM, ring or mix.
  • Six banks of eight morphing waves sit beside a noise source: white, pink, brown, digital, sample-and-hold or crackle.
  • A resonant filter offers a 12 or 24 dB low-pass or a comb, with drive, high-pass and self-oscillation.
  • The polyphonic sequencer holds four patterns of up to 64 steps with chords, accents, slides, ties and a song.
  • Enter steps from the keys or record in real time with overdub, a metronome and a bar's count-in.
  • A lo-fi drum machine plays kick, snare and hat lanes you tap in on the white keys.
  • Eight slots save the sound and its sequencer to flash, and the last one returns at power-on.
  • USB carries stereo audio into a DAW and MIDI both ways, and the TRS jack takes MIDI and clock.

Its modes

OSC 1 / OSC 2
Build each oscillator's chain of carrier, mod 1 and mod 2, setting waves, ratios, FM, ring or mix modes and envelopes.
FILTER
Choose a 12 or 24 dB low-pass or a comb and set cutoff, resonance, drive, high-pass and keytrack.
AMP
Shape the amp envelope, set how velocity acts, and open the VCA for an instant drone.
LFO
Pick the LFO's wave, rate, delay and retrig, and send it to two destinations.
MIX
Balance the oscillators, route each source through the filter or direct, set glide and split the keyboard.
ARP
Run the arpeggiator with its mode, step, octaves, tempo, gate, swing and latch.
SEQ
Edit and record patterns and the song, with chords, accents, slides, ties, parts and the metronome.
DRUM
Program kick, snare and hat lanes on the keys and tune the kit and its bus.
FX
Set the chorus, delay and reverb that follow the voices.
LIVE
Switch patterns and patches on the bar line, mute parts and turn four parameters you choose.

What Les checked

Prysm v1.3Scanned October 31, 2026

What we checked for

  • The file is exactly the one its author published
  • It's the same file we saw when this release first came out
  • It opens cleanly as an FM-1 firmware, nothing damaged
  • It doesn't show up on your computer as a keyboard, mouse or other input device
  • It doesn't show up as a USB drive or network adapter
  • Its text mentions no computer command tools, like PowerShell, Terminal or a download command

What we found

  • MIDI and audio, as expected

StatusScanned, nothing harmful found

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