A bridge of its own.
Duplicate a block as a variation and edit its copied notes independently. Build a fill or a bridge while keeping your original pattern.
EXTENDED EDITION / M-VAVE FM-1
0.1.6-beta1 · Experimental release
Blocks, bridges
& your own hits.
Give your groove somewhere to go. Make an independent variation, stretch a section to 32 bars, and keep transposed bass notes inside your chosen scale.
The new browser companion helps find the hits you want in a WAV loop, then shape each slice into something you can play.
Device firmware + a separate browser companion. Read the known issues before installing.
01 / Independent variations02 / 1–32-bar blocks03 / Scale-safe bass04 / Shape your slices
ON THE FM-1
Turn a pattern into
an arrangement.
Let a section breathe.
Set each block to 1–32 musical bars. Queue a block for the next bar, or let the arrangement move through its rows and wrap.
Change the shape. Undo.
Delete a block without deleting its underlying patterns, sounds or motion. Structural Undo/Redo and a visible SONG UNDO action help you retrace an edit.
Transpose with a home key.
Scale adherence brings transposed 303 notes into the shared key and scale. Use the harmony controls to keep bass variations connected.
BLOCK 1Main grooveP2 · ×1
→BLOCK 2Bridge variationP3 · ×4
→BLOCK 3Back to the grooveP2 · ×1
Example: an independent P3 variation between two P2 blocks. Durations are musical bars.
Explore the block controls →IN YOUR BROWSER
Find the snare.
Keep the character.
Start with a loop, a recorded kit or a little percussion of your own. Use a frequency band and a minimum level to find useful attacks, then listen and choose.
Listen & detect
Kick, snare and percussion presets; custom profiles; spectrum and filtered-energy displays. Hear the detection band and inspect coloured matches.
Choose & shape
Scroll through slices. Set Active, Length, Hold, Decay and Level for each hit. Shorten the tail before another percussion sound arrives.
Keep & reuse
Audition hits or play active slices. Copy/paste settings, save custom profiles and reopen review projects with the matching WAV.
HOLDDECAYLENGTH LIMIT
Hold preserves the recorded signal before Decay fades it. The original WAV stays unchanged. A filter-guided detector helps select hits; it cannot remove instruments sounding at the same time.
THE EXTENDED FOUNDATION
Still a whole groovebox.
909 and 808 drums, two 303 bass voices, a break player, motion recording and effects — built on Charles Vestal's X0X and its component authors.
Extended Edition retains that foundation and adds 25 per-sound filter/limiter strips, explicitly applied reusable defaults, expanded lane timing, arrangement harmony and MIDI accompaniment/routing. The 909 strip batching improvement from 0.1.5 is included.
Upstream X0X · Credits and licences · Corresponding firmware source
THE COMPARISON SHEET
What comes from where?
The earlier upstream-versus-Extended comparison, updated for this release. Upstream X0X means Charles Vestal's project, not M-VAVE factory firmware.
Baseline: upstream main 54194c5, reviewed 18 October 2026, with v1.1.0 release context. This is a pinned comparison, not a claim about future upstream changes. “Not established” means no equivalence was confirmed in that review.
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| Capability | Upstream X0X | Extended Edition | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 909, 808, two 303s and break player | Present | Retained; upstream engines and authors credited | Inherited |
| Stereo, reverb, tape delay and master compressor | Present | Retained, with per-sound strip processing | Inherited + Extended |
| Pattern storage | 32 banks; up to 64 steps | 32 banks; up to 64 steps. Longer blocks repeat patterns | Retained |
| Part lengths, rates, probability, p-locks and motion | Present | Retained; individual sound lanes and 21 rate divisions | Extended firmware |
| Pattern copying | Present | Retained; independent whole-block variations added | New in 0.1.6 |
| Song chaining and block duration | 192 rows; repeats 1–8 | Musical-bar arrangement; 1–32 bars per block, part mutes and chord metadata | Expanded in 0.1.6 |
| Editable bridge and fill variations | Existing song/pattern controls | Duplicate as variation, edit copied notes and queue the next block at a bar boundary | New in 0.1.6 |
| Delete block while keeping its patterns | Equivalent semantics not established in this review | Confirmed structural deletion with Undo/Redo; patterns, sounds and motion retained | New in 0.1.6 |
| TB-3PO generation and harmonic following | Line generation and mutation present | Retained; arrangement root/chord following plus shared-key/scale-safe 303 transposition | Expanded in 0.1.6 |
| Per-sound filters, limiter and reusable defaults | No equivalent 25-sound Extended strip system in reviewed baseline | 25 sound strips; saved defaults applied explicitly | Extended firmware |
| 909 strip processing | Upstream render path | Batching optimisation retained from 0.1.5; same strip DSP | Extended firmware |
| Autosave OFF | Present | Retained. Separate note/tail-aware autosave fix is not included | Inherited |
| USB/TRS MIDI, clock and transport | Present | Retained; accompaniment/routing and lane controls included; physical coverage varies by workflow | Inherited + Extended |
| Computer backup/restore | Present | Retained. One active project/song; sample WAVs need separate backup | Retained |
| Templates, whole-song Save As and set lists | Named on-device library not established by this review | Proposed; computer project backups remain available | Future |
| Assignable 64/128-bar LFO | Existing motion is a different workflow | Proposed | Future |
| Within-block chord progression lane | Not established in reviewed baseline | Proposed; current chord metadata belongs to arrangement blocks | Future |
| MIDI note remap and direct MIDI-clip import | Existing triggering is a different workflow | Proposed | Future |
| Searchable release FAQ | Own manual, release notes and help | Offline searchable illustrated FAQ, controls and release guidance | Extended documentation |
| Browser WAV and marker slice workbench | Break uploader and emulator available | Earlier marker audition and pitch-preserving scheduling retained; new review-project sound integration added as a browser update | Earlier browser build |
| Frequency-guided slice detection and shaping | Not assessed as equivalent in the reviewed baseline | Separate Slice Profiles companion: spectrum, band RMS gate, coloured matches, Active/Length/Hold/Decay/Level and saved review projects | New browser companion |
| Shaped slices inside the emulator | Not assessed | Browser emulator now applies Active/Length/Hold/Decay/Level from review JSON + matching WAV; marker export remains cuts/timing only | Browser update |
| 128-step lanes, weighted blocks and alternate engines | Not assessed as these proposed workflows | Requested future work; not included in 0.1.6 | Future |
PLAY, TEST, FEEDBACK
Ready for an experiment?
This is a prerelease. Bounded hardware arrangement, save/restart, playback and one-note scale/MIDI checks passed. A 32-bar block took about 64 seconds at 121 BPM. The browser snare workflow was accepted as a useful starting point.
Broader heavy-load, external MIDI timing and overnight testing remain open. The separate autosave fix is not included. Keep a pre-update project backup and sample WAVs separately; older firmware can reject the newer arrangement format.
What to test · Backup, install and rollback · Report an issue with your version and steps
Future ideas include weighted block selection, evolving probabilities, alternate synth engines and velocity-shaped slices. These are proposals, not features of 0.1.6.