https://les.audio/ 2026-06-27 https://les.audio/guides 2026-10-17 https://les.audio/guides/arturia-polybrute 2026-10-03 https://les.audio/guides/arturia-polybrute/arpeggiator 2026-10-03 https://les.audio/static/guides/arturia-polybrute/polybrute-arpeggiator.png How to use the arpeggiator on the PolyBrute The PolyBrute's arpeggiator takes the chord you hold and plays it one note at a time. One button starts it, Hold keeps it going, and three more controls shape it. https://les.audio/static/guides/arturia-polybrute/polybrute-arpeggiator.mp4 37 2026-10-03T13:00:00+00:00 https://les.audio/guides/arturia-polybrute/deep-bass 2026-10-03 https://les.audio/static/guides/arturia-polybrute/polybrute-deep-bass.png How to make a deep bass on the PolyBrute A deep bass on the PolyBrute is one oscillator, tuned down, with the Ladder filter closed over it. Here it is in four steps. https://les.audio/static/guides/arturia-polybrute/polybrute-deep-bass.mp4 38 2026-10-03T13:00:00+00:00 https://les.audio/guides/arturia-polybrute/evolving-pad 2026-10-03 https://les.audio/static/guides/arturia-polybrute/polybrute-evolving-pad.png How to make an evolving pad on the PolyBrute An evolving pad on the PolyBrute can be as simple as a slow LFO moving the filter under notes that swell in and hang. Here it is in four steps. https://les.audio/static/guides/arturia-polybrute/polybrute-evolving-pad.mp4 44 2026-10-03T13:00:00+00:00 https://les.audio/guides/arturia-polybrute/mod-matrix 2026-10-03 https://les.audio/static/guides/arturia-polybrute/polybrute-mod-matrix.png How the Mod Matrix works on the PolyBrute The Matrix is a patch bay with no cables. Each row is a modulation source. Each column is a destination you pick. Here it is with one real job: making the filter pulse in time. https://les.audio/static/guides/arturia-polybrute/polybrute-mod-matrix.mp4 39 2026-10-03T13:00:00+00:00 https://les.audio/guides/arturia-polybrute/morph-two-versions 2026-10-03 https://les.audio/static/guides/arturia-polybrute/polybrute-morph-two-versions.png How to morph between two versions of a pad on the PolyBrute Every PolyBrute patch is two sounds, A and B, and the Morph knob moves between them. To blend two versions of one pad, start B as a copy of A, change B, then sweep. https://les.audio/static/guides/arturia-polybrute/polybrute-morph-two-versions.mp4 40 2026-10-03T13:00:00+00:00 https://les.audio/guides/arturia-polybrute/oscillator-shape-knobs 2026-10-03 https://les.audio/static/guides/arturia-polybrute/polybrute-oscillator-shape-knobs.png How the two wave knobs on a PolyBrute oscillator work Each PolyBrute oscillator makes a sawtooth, a triangle and a square all the time. The two knobs with symbols under them decide how much of each you hear. https://les.audio/static/guides/arturia-polybrute/polybrute-oscillator-shape-knobs.mp4 42 2026-10-03T13:00:00+00:00 https://les.audio/guides/elektron-digitakt 2026-10-05 https://les.audio/guides/elektron-digitakt/swing 2026-10-05 https://les.audio/static/guides/elektron-digitakt/digitakt-swing.png How to add swing on the Digitakt Swing is a setting of the pattern, and it sits in the TEMPO menu beside the tempo. Turn it up and a straight beat starts to swing. https://les.audio/static/guides/elektron-digitakt/digitakt-swing.mp4 34 2026-10-05T16:51:51+00:00 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1 2026-10-17 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/firmware/stock 2026-10-13 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/firmware/baudgirl 2026-10-13 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/firmware/felucca 2026-10-16 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/firmware/sloop 2026-10-16 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/firmware/x0x 2026-10-16 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/firmware/jiant 2026-10-16 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/firmware/melodee 2026-10-16 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/firmware/fomni 2026-10-16 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/firmware/amb 2026-10-16 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/firmware/choralroot 2026-10-16 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/firmware/ghoulbox 2026-10-16 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/firmware/mvaveopen 2026-10-16 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/firmware/fm106 2026-10-16 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/firmware/hortator 2026-10-16 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/firmware/obervave 2026-10-16 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/firmware/polly 2026-10-16 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/firmware/skiff 2026-10-16 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/amb-change-bells 2026-10-17 https://les.audio/static/guides/m-vave-fm-1/fm1-amb-change-bells.png How to change the bells on the FM-1 AMB-1 AMB-1 turns the FM-1 into an ambient machine that plays itself, and its bells come from four loops of unequal length: 13, 17, 23 and 29 beats, so they slide against each other. Pressing ARP opens the Bells page, where KNOB3 sets their tone and KNOB2 how many notes each loop holds, and OCT+ raises them an octave. https://les.audio/static/guides/m-vave-fm-1/fm1-amb-change-bells.mp4 36 2026-10-17T07:00:00+00:00 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/amb-drone 2026-10-17 https://les.audio/static/guides/m-vave-fm-1/fm1-amb-drone.png How to turn the FM-1 AMB-1 into a drone AMB-1 is a firmware that turns the M-VAVE FM-1 into a self-playing ambient piece: a breathing pad, bells, a bass and a soft pulse, all from one chord in one scale. Its REC button freezes that chord and leaves the reverb ringing, while the bells and the pulse carry on over it. Turn those two down on their own pages and you are left with a drone. https://les.audio/static/guides/m-vave-fm-1/fm1-amb-drone.mp4 37 2026-10-17T07:00:00+00:00 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/amb-steer-melody 2026-10-17 https://les.audio/static/guides/m-vave-fm-1/fm1-amb-steer-melody.png How to steer the melody on the FM-1 AMB-1 AMB-1 is a firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1 that plays an ambient piece by itself: a pad, bells, a bass and a soft pulse. Its keys choose the notes the piece may use, and the piece writes its melody from those. A lit key's note is in the scale: press it and the note leaves, and nothing plays it after that. Press an unlit key and its note joins. Pressing a note in any octave changes it in every octave. https://les.audio/static/guides/m-vave-fm-1/fm1-amb-steer-melody.mp4 36 2026-10-17T07:00:00+00:00 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/arpeggiator 2026-10-13 https://les.audio/static/guides/m-vave-fm-1/fm1-arpeggiator.png How to use the arpeggiator on the M-VAVE FM-1 On the FM-1, the arpeggiator plays the notes you hold for you, in the pattern you choose. ARP turns it on, KNOB1 picks the pattern and KNOB4 sets the tempo on the first ARP page, and Latch keeps it playing after you let go. https://les.audio/static/guides/m-vave-fm-1/fm1-arpeggiator.mp4 41 2026-10-13T20:00:00+00:00 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/choralroot-dom7 2026-10-17 https://les.audio/static/guides/m-vave-fm-1/fm1-choralroot-dom7.png How to play a dominant 7th on the FM-1 with ChoralRoot ChoralRoot turns the M-VAVE FM-1 into a chord instrument in the Orchid style: four black keys at the left end of the keybed choose the chord's type, four white keys among them add notes, and a root key from D4 up plays the chord. A dominant 7th is MAJ with the m7 key. The major 7th is on M7, the key next to it, and the screen names whichever chord you play. https://les.audio/static/guides/m-vave-fm-1/fm1-choralroot-dom7.mp4 33 2026-10-17T07:00:00+00:00 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/choralroot-lock 2026-10-17 https://les.audio/static/guides/m-vave-fm-1/fm1-choralroot-lock.png How to play minor 9th chords with one finger on the FM-1 with ChoralRoot ChoralRoot, an Orchid-style chord firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1, builds a chord from the keys you hold at the left end of the keybed and the root you play with the rest of it. Its LOCK key, B3, keeps those chord keys on after you let go, so one finger plays the roots. Lock MIN, m7 and 9 and every root you play is a minor 9th chord. https://les.audio/static/guides/m-vave-fm-1/fm1-choralroot-lock.mp4 37 2026-10-17T07:00:00+00:00 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/choralroot-progression 2026-10-17 https://les.audio/static/guides/m-vave-fm-1/fm1-choralroot-progression.png How to play a I-vi-IV-V on the FM-1 with ChoralRoot ChoralRoot turns the M-VAVE FM-1 into an Orchid-style chord instrument. In its Key Mode a root key on its own plays the chord that belongs on that note of the scale, and with Numerals on, the Chord view writes that chord's Roman numeral above its name. So a I-vi-IV-V in C major is four keys, and the screen numbers each chord as you play it. Shown for ChoralRoot 0.24 (released 2026-10-17); Numerals needs ChoralRoot 0.22 or later. https://les.audio/static/guides/m-vave-fm-1/fm1-choralroot-progression.mp4 39 2026-10-17T07:00:00+00:00 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/melodee-cz 2026-10-17 https://les.audio/static/guides/m-vave-fm-1/fm1-melodee-cz.png How to get the Casio CZ sound on the FM-1 with Melodee Melodee, a custom firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1, has a CZ-1 engine: native Casio CZ-1 tones on a phase-distortion core, with Casio's 64 factory presets. Choose it in the sound browser, then shape its init sound on the Stage page, where KNOB1 picks the wave and KNOB2 is DCW, which brightens or darkens the tone. https://les.audio/static/guides/m-vave-fm-1/fm1-melodee-cz.mp4 34 2026-10-17T07:00:00+00:00 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/melodee-prophet 2026-10-17 https://les.audio/static/guides/m-vave-fm-1/fm1-melodee-prophet.png How to get a Prophet-5 sound on the FM-1 with Melodee Melodee, a custom firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1, has its own Prophet-5-style engine, and the FM-1 plays it from power-on: track 1 starts on a Prophet bass, PROPHET FUNK BASS II. On the Stage screen, the four sound knobs shape it. KNOB1 is the cutoff, KNOB2 the resonance, KNOB3 the filter envelope amount and KNOB4 the amp release. https://les.audio/static/guides/m-vave-fm-1/fm1-melodee-prophet.mp4 40 2026-10-17T07:00:00+00:00 https://les.audio/guides/m-vave-fm-1/melodee-unquantized 2026-10-17 https://les.audio/static/guides/m-vave-fm-1/fm1-melodee-unquantized.png How to record without quantize on the FM-1 with Melodee Melodee, a custom firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1, doesn't make you arm REC before you play. While the transport runs, it keeps what you play, and holding REC turns your last bars into the pattern, with the timing you played them in. https://les.audio/static/guides/m-vave-fm-1/fm1-melodee-unquantized.mp4 28 2026-10-17T07:00:00+00:00 https://les.audio/guides/moog-mother-32 2026-10-10 https://les.audio/guides/moog-mother-32/glide 2026-10-10 https://les.audio/static/guides/moog-mother-32/mother-32-glide.png How to add glide to one step on the Mother-32 On the Mother-32, glide is switched on or off for each step of a pattern, so you choose which notes the line slides into. The GLIDE knob does two jobs: while you are editing a step, turning it right switches that step's glide on; once you leave the edit, it sets how fast every gliding step slides. https://les.audio/static/guides/moog-mother-32/mother-32-glide.mp4 38 2026-10-10T19:07:00+00:00 https://les.audio/guides/moog-mother-32/random 2026-10-10 https://les.audio/static/guides/moog-mother-32/mother-32-random.png How to play a random sequence on the Mother-32 The Mother-32's sequencer can play a pattern in four orders: forward, reverse, pendulum (back and forth) and random. Random keeps your pattern's notes and plays them in a random order, set from the panel with two buttons held and one pressed. https://les.audio/static/guides/moog-mother-32/mother-32-random.mp4 28 2026-10-10T19:07:00+00:00