Playin the browser
1.1 · out now
The same code the FM-1 runs, with sound.
No FM-1 needed. Switch it on, then tap a key: a drone rises and stays. Tap it again and it fades. Use headphones if you can: the drones are long, and the bass is deep.
The FM-1
Turn your phone sideways for bigger controls.
Tab moves through the knobs, the buttons, the black keys and the white keys. Arrow keys turn a knob, Page Up and Page Down faster. Space or Enter holds a button or key down while you hold it; Shift and Enter keeps it down until you press it again (with a mouse: Shift-click or right-click).
Screen Reader
How to play it here
First sounds
- Press Switch on.
- Tap a key on the lower row: a drone rises. Tap two or three more.
- Turn PRESETS: 24 drones to choose from. ALGORITHM thins the drone out, or fills it.
- Turn SELECT to GLINT: the keys play small icy bells over the drones. REC records them into GLINT’s sequencer, live.
- Hold PLAY to release everything. SAVE opens the scenes.
With the computer’s keyboard
While the panel has focus (click it once), and with Keyboard shortcuts on:
- Q–I · A–K
- the lower row of keys, left to right
- 1–0 · -
- the upper row
- ↑ ↓
- turn SELECT (KEYS: DRONE, GLINT, BASS)
- O
- REC
- P
- PLAY
- Esc
- HOME
- Z X
- OCT− and OCT+
Good to know
Tab moves through the knobs, the buttons and the keys; the arrow keys turn a knob. Pressure, on the FM-1 the heart of it, is the one thing a mouse can’t give: here a key is pressed or not.
Shift-click or right-click a key or a button to keep it held until you click it again: for SEL and a key, SAVE and REC, or to hold ARP.
Over the panel, FRASIL buttons writes what each control does here (SEQ: BASS, ARP: GLINT, SAVE: SCENES); FM-1 buttons, the names printed on the FM-1.
What you save stays in this browser. Factory reset forgets it.