Groove OS 1.1 smooths out the moments where 1.0 got in the way of making a beat: SHIFT (HOME held down) that waits, patterns that grow empty, a grid that hides what you wrote. It also adds the sound pack, pad mutes on PERFORM, the tempo from any screen and remote control over USB. Everything here is a change from 1.0; the chapters it links to have the details.
The boot screen and SETTINGS > ABOUT say 1.1 once it is installed (see Install, update and the way back).
New
| What | Where |
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The sound pack. 63 more VA sounds in nine styles, each with a demo song, in their own part of the flash and installed from the Sounds page (Add to FM-1). PRESETS lists them with the rest, each in its type and marked VA; SETTINGS > ABOUT > PACK says where to get it. Songs keep the sounds they use, even without the pack. | SOUND |
| Pad mutes on PERFORM. Hold SEL and tap white keys 1 to 8 to mute or unmute a kit's pads on the launch line: the kick out, the hats on. | PERFORM |
| Remote control over USB. A web page can follow the FM-1 and play its panel, so the Learn pages can follow what you do on it and light the next control. A link mark in the header shows while a page is linked, Learn included. | MIDI and sync |
| The tempo from any screen. Hold PLAY and turn K1: 1 BPM a click, and the music keeps playing. | TRACKS, The controls |
Hint lines that take turns. When a page has more moves than fit, the hint line shows them in turns, every 3 seconds: the main moves first, then the hidden gestures (PLAY+K1: TEMPO, SEQ+KEY: REST, HOLD SEL+TURN: TENS). | The controls |
The undo toast. After anything undo can take back, a toast says how: SHIFT+REC: UNDO T3 DICE. | Recording and undo |
Naming a new song before its first save. On PROJECT, an empty slot says SEL: NAME IT, SAVE IT. | PROJECT |
Quicker to use
| Change | 1.0 | 1.1 | Where |
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| SHIFT keys | Waited for the BACK TAP time; a key pressed sooner played a note | A key pressed with HOME down is a SHIFT key at once | The controls |
| The first PRESETS click | Only opened the browser | Opens it and moves one sound | SOUND |
| SEL + OCT on SEQ | Did nothing | The previous or next bar, like SHIFT + OCT | SEQ |
| PLAY | Started and stopped on the press | Starts on the press, stops on the release; a hold that set the tempo does not stop | The controls |
| Hold SEL + a knob | On a knob that can record moves, it always cleared its lane (NO AUTOMATION when there was none) | Clears only a lane that has moves; otherwise moves any number ten at a time: every menu value, MIX and MAIN, the macros, the pads | The controls |
The macros, a track's LEVEL, a pad's LEVEL | Two a click | One a click | TRACKS, MIX, KIT |
CLICK VOL, a pattern's GATE, GENERATE's DENSITY, the arpeggiator's SWING | Five a click | One a click | The controls |
A track's SEND | One a click, five on a quick turn | One a click, ten with SEL held | MIX |
A pad's SEND | TRACK above 100 %, 5 % a click | TRACK at the bottom: one click right is 0 %, then 1 % a click | KIT |
RENAME | Typed over the old name and kept its tail | The first key starts a new name | TRACKS, PROJECT |
| The PAD menu | Reopened on the row number used last, which moved as the hit's rows came and went | Reopens on the same row by its name; on a hit it opens on HIT VELO | KIT |
Patterns and loops
| Change | 1.0 | 1.1 | Where |
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| Growing a pattern | New bars came up empty | Whole bars repeat into empty new bars; one undo (T1 PATTERN) | SEQ |
| Growing a track's loop or a kit | Repeated, but the copies were not an undo step of their own | One undo takes the copies and the length back (T1 LENGTH) | TRACKS, KIT |
| SEQ on a pattern that plays | Switched it off | Opens its grid; SEQ on the grid switches it off | SEQ |
| SHIFT + SAVE (capture) | Kept the loop's length up to the press, so a late press lost the first notes | Up to a beat after the loop comes round, it keeps the pass that just ended | Recording and undo |
Easier to read
| Change | 1.0 | 1.1 | Where |
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| The KIT grid's header | T1 SEQ | T1 KIT | KIT |
| The cursor's step on SEQ | Only in the STEP menu | The header says STEP 11 OF 32 while you move | SEQ |
| SEQ's rows | Named the note before the track's OCTAVE | Name the note as it sounds | SEQ |
| A chord typed into SEQ | Its lowest notes could sit below the window | The window moves to show the whole chord | SEQ |
| SEL + a white key on SEQ | Jumped in the bar shown, which FOLLOW could change while playing | Jumps in the cursor's bar | SEQ |
| A KIT step key | A hold could toggle the hit away | A tap toggles; a hold only moves the cursor | KIT |
| The TIME row on TRACKS | TIME | ▲ TIME: it is the row above the tracks | TRACKS |
| The rest on SEQ | SEQ held + a key, not shown | The same, and the hint line says it: SEQ+KEY: REST | SEQ |
Sound and feel
| Change | 1.0 | 1.1 | Where |
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| The chord pads | The chords of degrees 1 to 7 from the C key, so in A minor the C key played Am | Each white pad plays the chord on its own letter: in A minor the A key plays Am, and the pads still rise left to right. In a key on C nothing changes | KEYS |
| Effects on and off | Every switch faded the whole mix for a moment | REVERB, DELAY, CHORUS and PHASER switch by their mix, without the fade, after their first switch-on | MIX and FX |
Your projects
Projects saved on 1.0 load on 1.1 as they were, and the slots and the autosave stay where they are. Recorded notes and patterns play exactly as before: the new chord pads only change which key plays which chord live. A project that uses a pack sound keeps that sound, so it also plays on 1.0.
Troubleshooting
| What happens | Why, and what to do |
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| A key changed a setting instead of playing | HOME was down: in 1.1 every key is a SHIFT key at once. Let go of HOME before you play. |
| SEQ no longer switches the pattern off from TRACKS | It opens the pattern instead. Press SEQ again on the sequencer. |
| Bar 2 of a pattern is a copy of bar 1 | Growing repeats it. SHIFT + REC takes the copies back. |
| Holding SEL and turning moved a value instead of clearing | That knob has no recorded lane. With a lane, the legend says CLEAR. |
| The 63 pack sounds are not in PRESETS | Install the pack from the Sounds page (Add to FM-1 on any style). |
| PLAY did not stop when I let go | You turned K1 while holding it, which set the tempo. Press PLAY again. |
| A chord pad plays a different chord than on 1.0 | Each pad plays its own letter's chord now. Your recordings are unchanged. |
| Switching the reverb on dipped the sound, but off did not | The first switch-on since power-up still fades; after that the four mix effects switch smoothly. |