Tonitor

• Each of the six tracks plays one of eight engines: FM, ANIMA, CALIGULA, RUSSOLO, DRUID, BAYAREA, HIVE and OBRADOR.
• Every track has a free looper of up to ten overdubs, with no tempo or grid, so loops drift apart.
• The white keys play the chosen track in one of 23 scales, and SHIFT latches held notes as drones.
• Per track you get a filter, granulator, crush, distortion, level, pan and sends to a master delay and plate reverb.
• BALLSY bounces balls off walls for notes, BRICKLAYER builds a step sequence, and PLAY ALONG has other tracks answer the one you play.
• Sixty-four session slots in the FM-1's flash hold every track, sound, loop and setting, plus 16 snapshots with morphing.
• MIDI arrives over USB and the TRS jack, and the FM-1 sends USB audio as a stereo master or six mono tracks.

Its modes

ENVELOPE

Set the chosen track's attack, decay, sustain and release on KNOB 1 to 4.

SCALE

Pick the root with SELECT and the scale with ALGORITHM for every track.

PRESETS

Save the track's current sound into one of the engine's 64 slots, or load one back.

SNAPSHOTS

Store and recall 16 whole states of the machine on the white keys, with a morph time on KNOB 1.

SESSIONS

Choose one of 64 slots in the flash to load, or start a blank session there.

GLOBAL SETUP

Set the MIDI channels, ports, note and CC sending, and what the USB audio sends.

MOD

Set each track's two LFOs and four modulation slots, their sources, destinations and amounts.

PLAY ALONG

Choose REACT, SHADOW or ARPEGGIO, take tracks in to follow the guide, and shape them with the knobs.

BALLSY

Run a sequencer of bouncing balls that play notes of the scale as they hit the walls.

BRICKLAYER

Build a step sequence a note at a time on the white keys and set its length, rate, harmony and variation.