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Install · Groove OS 2.0.2

A few minutes.
A whole new way to play.

Connect your FM-1 with a USB data cable and open this page in Chrome or Edge. The installer guides you through the update in about 3 minutes.

Already own it? Update to 2.0 It's included, and your songs and sounds stay.

How it installs

Buy once, then install from this page.

Your purchase unlocks the installer, with Groove OS 1.4 and 2.x updates included. Once you're logged in, follow these four steps.

  1. Step 1

    Connect the FM-1

    to a computer with a USB data cable. Some cables only charge.

  2. Step 2

    Open this page

    in Chrome or Edge. It reads what your FM-1 runs before it writes anything.

  3. Step 3

    Install

    in about 3 minutes, with the time left on screen. Every part is checked as it is written.

  4. Step 4

    Switch it off and on

    Groove OS 2.0 opens on a fresh project. New to it? Find First Groove under LEARN in SETTINGS and make your first beat in about 10 minutes.

What stays, and going back to 1.4.

Updating, or moving between 1.4 and 2.0 either way, keeps what you made on its own. Before it writes anything the installer saves your projects to your downloads and your samples, kits and Bluetooth pairings in this browser, then puts them back and checks each one. Back to 1.4 is the same page, and your projects and samples come along.

Going back to M-VAVE's firmware.

M-VAVE's original firmware has no room for Groove projects, so going back to it erases them from the FM-1. The install page saves them to your downloads first (the Restore page does too, for a 2.0 FM-1); export them from the Projects page as well, and keep those files. Export them on the projects page. The file is M-VAVE's own, V15 or V16 (the browser doesn't keep a copy), and no account is needed: put M-VAVE's firmware back. The backup stays on your computer, not on our servers: .groove files in your downloads folder, and your samples and kits in this browser's storage.

Coming from another custom firmware?

Groove OS installs over M-VAVE's V15 or V16. If your FM-1 runs another custom firmware, this page does it in two steps, one after the other:

  1. 01It puts M-VAVE's V15 back on, from V15's own file, FM-1.fwsc. M-VAVE's download page offers V16 now, so use the copy you kept from before. That replaces what the FM-1 runs now, and what it saved, so back up anything you want to keep with its own tools first.
  2. 02It installs Groove OS on V15, straight after.

Connect the FM-1 and the page offers both steps. Nothing is written until you press the button.

Groove OS

$29Once.

  • Pay once. No subscription. It stays yours.
  • 1.4 and 2.x updates. Included. Later major versions are not included.
  • From the browser: Chrome or Edge over USB. Nothing to download.

Groove OS goes onto the account for the email you pay with, so use the one you log in with. Have an account? Log in first.

Secure payment by Stripe. Your receipt is kept on your account page.

Questions? pepegombos@gmail.com

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