M-VAVE FM-1

Back up before changing firmware. Felucca, SLOOP, JIANT and Melodee use their web editors; Baud Girl uses Device Manager while FM-1+VA is running. Keep Felucca's and JIANT's FM6 voice-bank .syx files separately: their backups omit that bank. Felucca also omits hand-set SLICE markers; SLOOP omits its 2.7 favourites. X0X v1.1.0 exports a project through its USB backup page or tools/x0x_backup.py: stop playback first and keep the break-loop WAVs (samples and calibration are excluded). Restoring an older Melodee backup clears U379-U384. With a nondefault VOICE BUDGET, Melodee settings restore fails and stops before restoring current music; earlier objects may already be written. GHOULBOX’s editor backup leaves out the separate FM6 voice bank and hand-set slice boundaries: keep the original .syx and note those boundaries. ChoralRoot’s USB device manager or backup tool covers saved sounds, settings, imported banks, favourites and ten loops; hold SAVE first for pending settings, and store valued live sounds as presets. It does not capture the live session. In Open’s matching Workbench, export each loaded USER project as .fm1. Read the device sample bank before exporting .fm1s: the browser starts with demo audio. Open preferences and pairing keys have no identified export. AMB-1 has no supported piece export or restore for its rescue dump; record valued settings elsewhere. FM-106 Beta4 cannot store new user sounds in flash: use the librarian’s Read All, check its replies, then export User A and User B as separate .syx banks. Those files keep names and classic sound controls; record extended controls, MIDI settings, sequence notes and locks separately. For Polly, stop, release the keys and holds, free enough MEMORY places, then press SAVE. A success message can still leave edits out when memory is full, so check that the changes were kept before downloading .plb from its USB backup page. Keep the QY70 ROM separately. Calibration is outside the backup; redo it after a restore. Save before a computer or button-started update too. Skiff’s web editor exports a full backup while stopped, but omits MAN slice positions. Record those, and verify pending patterns were saved before trusting the file: a failed flush can leave edits out. Hortator and OberVave have no supported backup in these releases. Hortator’s four unit slots are not external copies, and its inherited browser editor cannot export or restore its projects. Write down valued OberVave settings. FoMni and stock V15 have no backup.

Leaving JIANT 0.7.x: back up, then use JIANT's own "Return to official V15" before another firmware's installer. The other open-firmware installers listed here do not find its "JIANT FM" USB MIDI port.