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Groove OS 1.4.

Your own drum sounds on the FM-1's kit pads.

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  1. 01 · New

    Your own drum sounds

    Your kick, your snare, a clap you recorded on your phone, on the FM-1's kit pads. Start from six ready kits, mix and match any pad, or drop any audio file into Your own sounds.

    Your kit sits in PRESETS under KITS, marked OWN, and plays like any drum: from the keys and the step grid, with TUNE, DECAY, LEVEL and sends on every pad, and TRACK FX on top.

    Make your own kitHear the free kits

    Hear the six free kits

    Clean, punchy drums, made from scratch.

    Free to use in anything you make.
    PRESETS on the FM-1, on KITS: your own kit highlighted, OWN on K4's legend
    Your kit in PRESETS, marked OWN
    The FM-1's KIT step grid: a beat on your own sounds, each pad named after its sample
    Programmed like any kit

  2. 02 · New

    Learn on the FM-1 itself

    Six short courses now live on your FM-1, from your first groove to playing it live. Tap GLO (SETTINGS), then LEARN, pick one and it starts: offline, anywhere, with nothing to add.

    Tap GLO for the step you are on, then play: each step is earned by playing, and your progress saves with your song. Start with First Groove, eleven steps in four chapters.

    See the six courses
    1. SETTINGS on the FM-1, LEARN highlighted as the last row
      GLO (SETTINGS), then LEARN: six courses
    2. The guide card: step 1 of 11, MAKE A BEAT. Hold HOME, tap SEQ: DICE creates drums.
      Tap GLO: the step you are on
    3. ARP playing a D minor chord as a moving phrase
      Earn it by playing
    4. The guide after the last step: Your first groove. Made by you.
      Keep it: your groove, saved

Also in 1.4

New

  • Six ready kits to start from: HOMEMADE, ELECTRO, ACOUSTIC, BOX 110, BOX 55 and RHYTHM.
  • Mix pads from different free kits, and put your own sounds right next to them.
  • Any common audio file works, a voice memo from your phone too, or record with the computer's microphone.
  • As you build, the page shows whether your kit fits, and what to trim if it doesn't.
  • Songs remember their sounds. On an FM-1 without one, that pad plays a built-in drum instead.
  • PAD > SOUND lists your sounds by name, so your own clap can sit in any kit.
  • Back up your kits to a file, and bring them back whenever you like.
  • Sounds: one place on the website for sound packs, drum kits and your own sounds.

Improved

  • Following an external clock, the FM-1 locks to every clock it gets: no drift with a drum machine or a DAW.
  • CLEAR on a track also clears a line DICE made, and SHIFT + REC takes back notes typed on SEQ.
  • On MIX, the MAIN strip's K1 and K2 are now called REVERB and DELAY, as on MAIN FX.
  • The manual plays: its chapters have a live FM-1 you can press and hear, right on the page.

Fixed

  • Also includes 1.3.1's fix: long pads and release tails ring out fully in busy songs.

Your projects

Your saved projects, the autosave, your settings and banks A to D carry over as they are. Your own sounds stay through updates on the Install page. A song with your own sounds opens on 1.3 too, with built-in drums in their place.

Install Groove OS 1.4What's new, in the manual