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Install · Groove OS 1.4

One cable.
One click.
You're playing.

Groove OS installs from this page over USB, in Chrome or Edge, in about 3 minutes. Your FM-1 stays an FM-1, and you can put M-VAVE's original firmware back from this page whenever you like.

Already own Groove OS? Log in to update to 1.4. It's included, and your songs and sounds stay.

How it installs

The installer opens here for owners.

Buy Groove OS once and the installer opens on this page, with every update, 2.0 included. Here is what happens then.

  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

    and it starts into Groove OS on a clean page, four sounds ready. Six courses are on it: tap GLO (SETTINGS), then LEARN.

What stays.

Groove OS is built on M-VAVE's V15, not instead of it: the FM engine, the stock presets, MIDI and Bluetooth are the FM-1's own. Hold OCT− and OCT+ at power-on and it starts as the stock FM-1.

Going back to stock.

This page can reinstall M-VAVE's original firmware, V15 or V16, from M-VAVE's own file (the browser doesn't keep a copy). That erases saved Groove projects, so export them first on the projects page. No account needed: put M-VAVE's firmware back. M-VAVE's firmware goes on exactly as M-VAVE made it, and your own sounds wait in this browser for when you come back.

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.
  • Every update, 2.0 included, installed the same way.
  • From the browser: Chrome or Edge over USB. Nothing to download.
  • One way back: M-VAVE's original firmware (V15 or V16) goes back on from the same page.

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

Already bought it? Log in and the installer is waiting.