TRIBE

• Ten tracks each play any engine: two kicks, the 909 and 808 drum voices, ACID, LEAD, FM4 and NOISE.
• Every track holds sixty-four clips in four banks, each keeping its pattern, engine, sound, LFO and sequencer settings.
• Each clip runs 16, 32 or 64 steps with six rates including triplets, four directions and swing.
• ARP gives the keyboard to the track with arpeggios and transposition, while REC quantises what you play into its steps.
• Holding keys during playback fires scatter effects: loops, reverse, gate, crush, distortion, ring and filters, on one track or the mix.
• Two master effects fed by each track's sends offer reverb, delay, drive, crusher, chorus, flanger, phaser, tremolo and comb.
• SAVE writes changed clips and global settings to the FM-1's flash, and a USB cable with Chrome or Edge installs the firmware.

Its modes

FX

Shape the track's drive, distortion, crush and related parameters with the four knobs.

ENV

Set the engine's envelope: attack, decay, sustain, release, pitch shape and duration.

LFO

Set shape, rate, depth, target, sync and retrigger for the synth engines' modulation.

EDIT

Edit the core of the sound, such as tune, cutoff, resonance, ratios and waveform.

HOME

Launch, copy or empty the track's sixty-four clips in four banks, and set its song behaviour.

SEL

Set each track's volume, its two effect sends and which engine its clip plays.

GLO

Set tempo, master volume, DJ filter, the two master effects, the compressor and what the four master knobs do.

ARP

Play the selected track from the keyboard, with up, down, up-down, random arpeggios and transposition.

REC

Play the keyboard and record notes into the nearest step while the track runs.