ZEN-1

• Three living scenes, Sakura, Koi and Hotaru, play by themselves, and every movement you see sounds a note.
• A six-operator FM engine voices each scene with koto, bell, furin, drop, mallet, pluck or warm sounds.
• Notes ride over a breathing three-voice drone in the Japanese pentatonic scales In, Yo and Min'yo.
• Sixteen white keys play notes that fit the music, while black keys do something special in each scene.
• PRESETS picks the scene, ALGORITHM the mood, SELECT how busy it gets and MASTER the volume.
• Five knob pages under FX and SEL set instrument, reverb, levels, nature beds, echo, warmth, key and scale.
• Changes save themselves about twenty seconds after you stop, and SAVE stores them straight away.
• Hold HOME for the FuMi-1 koto, which MIDI in over USB and the TRS jack plays chromatically.

Its modes

Scene

Set the mood, how busy the scene is, the instrument the notes play on and the reverb.

Volume

Balance the melody notes, the drone, the air sound and the water sound.

Nature

Set two settings belonging to the scene itself plus which air and water sounds play.

Music

Shape echo, warmth, how notes are chosen and how much the music swells and fades.

Key

Fix the key, scale, chord and drift for every mood and scene.

Sakura 桜

Watch a cherry tree drop petals on a stream, each landing petal sounding a koto note.

Koi 鯉

Feed koi in a garden pond, where every bite of food is a note.

Hotaru 蛍

Hear fireflies blink over a summer stream under a moon that follows its real path.

The instrument (FuMi-1)

Play the ST-50-style koto and other Japanese instruments from the keys, with tuning and ornaments.