THEME SAMHAIN

CARNAC

What every button on the FM1 does, drawn in the screen's own runes and stones.

Most buttons open a page. Press the same button again for its next page. The letters below find each control on the drawing. THEME, top right, repaints this manual in any palette from GLOBAL > THEME.

THE PANEL

A-K

A
MASTERVolume. The one knob no page uses.
B
SELECTMoves the cursor up and down the page.
C
PRESETSLoads the next saved patch, performance, sequence or arp.
D
ALGORITHMChanges the value under the cursor.
E
OCT- / OCT+Octave down / up. Held with HOME, SAVE or a key, a second job.
F
SCREENThe open page, its rows, the moon (battery).
G
KNOBS 1-4Follow the page. Their names are on the screen.
H
SOUND BUTTONSFX SEL ENV LFO EDIT GLO shape the sound.
I
HOME SAVE ARP SEQThe performance, saving, arp and sequencer.
J
PLAY / RECStart, stop, and record into the SEQ or ARP.
K
KEYSPlay notes. On SEQ and ARP some become steps and switches.

THE SOUND BUTTONS

Each press moves to the next stone in the row, and after the last one back to the first. Only the button of the open page lights. These pages edit the layer you have picked on HOME.

OSC 1
OSC 2
ATTACK
OSC MIX
BACK TO OSC 1

OSC 1

WAVE SCAN

OCTAVE

FINE TUNE

PITCH MOD

Outlined stones show only on some voices: OSC 2 on DUAL OSC and STACK, ATTACK on STRIKE.

FILTER 1
FILTER 2
FILTER MIX
BACK TO FILTER 1

FILTER

TYPE MORPH

CUTOFF

RESONANCE

MOD AMOUNT

FILTER 2 on DUAL FILTER and STACK voices. FILTER MIX on those and BINAURAL.

ENV 1
ENV 2
ENV 3
BACK TO ENV 1

ATTACK

DECAY

SUSTAIN

RELEASE

LFO 1
LFO 2
LFO 3
BACK TO LFO 1

SHAPE

RATE

DELAY

FADE

MOD 1
MOD 2
MOD 3
BACK TO MOD 1

Each MOD page is one modulation slot, drawn as a ring of destination stones. Turn a destination's amount to route the slot to it.

AMP
EFFECTS
BACK TO AMP

AMP

DRIVE

AMP MOD

DELAY SEND

REVERB SEND

EFFECTS

DELAY TIME

DELAY FDBK

REVERB TIME

REVERB DAMP

One press flips between the sends and the effects they feed.

THE ENCODERS

B C D

SELECT, THEN ALGORITHM

SELECT

L1 FLT1MULTI

TYPE MORPH40

CUTOFF84

RESONANCE22

MOD AMOUNT+12

MORPH MOD0

ALGORITHM

SELECT moves the lit row. Dim rows are skipped.
ALGORITHM changes the lit row's value. While it turns, a large tablet shows the row and its value. The tablet goes away 1.5 s after you stop.

PRESETS LOADS WHAT THE PAGE IS ABOUT

Each click steps to the next saved slot and loads it at once. A list of names stays up 2 s after the last click.

While HOME is held PRESETS does nothing, so a slip of the hand loads nothing.

HOME

LAYER
ZONES
PERF
GLOBAL
BACK TO LAYER

A PERFORMANCE IS A DOLMEN

The capstone is the performance. It rests on four pillars: the two patches, the sequence and the arp. A pillar grows with how far its part is from the factory one. On a SINGL performance the layer 2 pillar lies in rubble.

HOLD HOME TO PICK THE LAYER

HELD +

< OCT- L1L2 OCT+ >

Hold HOME and this strip appears at the foot of the screen. OCT- picks layer 1, OCT+ layer 2. The picked layer's OCT button lights and the other one flashes. In DUAL the keys then play the picked layer. Used like this, HOME does not change the page when you let go.

SAVE

THREE MOVES

Press SAVE. The save page opens on what the page you came from holds: a sound page the picked layer's PATCH, HOME the PERFORMANCE, SEQ the SEQUENCE, ARP the ARP.
Turn ALGORITHM or knob 2 to choose the slot. Knobs 3 and 4 write the name on a keyboard of runes.
Press SAVE again while it flashes. You go back to the page you came from.

READ THE MOON

FULL MOON: EMPTY

CRESCENT: OVERWRITES

The bank is a hill of slots, a mark for each one in use. The chosen slot is a stone. An empty slot saves at once. A used one asks first:

OVERWRITE?SLOT 024 OLD DUSK

NOYES

Turn ALGORITHM to YES and press SAVE.

COPY AND PASTE: HOLD SAVE

< OCT- COPY PATCHPASTE OCT+ >

Hold SAVE + OCT- to copy what SAVE would save here.
Hold SAVE + OCT+ to paste it over the current one. The save page opens and asks PASTE? first.

128 patch slots. 32 each of performances, sequences and arps.

SEQ

I K

On the SEQ page the 16 white keys are the 16 steps of the lane on screen. Each step is a stone that grows with its value. Press SEQ again for the next lane.

EDIT STEPS

Tap a white key: that step and the three after it go on knobs 1-4 (from 13 on, steps 13-16).
The knobs set those steps: a note, or the lane's value.
SELECT walks the steps four at a time, then the settings at the foot of the screen: scale, root, mode, target.
The black keys are silent here.

LOOP AND RECORD

Hold OCT- + a white key: the loop starts on that step.
Hold OCT+ + a white key: the loop ends on that step.
A tap of OCT- / OCT+ with no key still moves the octave.
REC: step record. The keys play as usual and write into the record step. Hold keys together for a chord of up to 4 notes.

ARP

I K

On the ARP page the keyboard splits. The low 13 keys play chords. The white keys above are the pattern's 8 steps, and the black keys between them are switches.

CHORDS AND STEPS

Hold a chord key to hear its chord arpeggiated. While the ARP plays, a chord key moves the pattern to its key.
Hold a step key + a chord key: the chord goes into that step, with the four knob settings.
Hold a step key + turn a knob: that step changes at once.
Knobs: RATE, OCTAVE, STYLE, RHYTHM.

THE SWITCHES

PLAY, REC, OCTAVE

J E

PLAY FOLLOWS THE PAGE

If one already plays, the other waits for its next bar, so the two stay in time.

REC RECORDS INTO THE PAGE

PLAY lights green while playing and red while recording.

A tap moves the keys down or up an octave, three each way. The button stays lit while you are off the middle octave, where the keys run F3 to G5.

LIGHTS AND HOLDS

ALL

The lit button is the page on screen. The rest stay dark.
Green: playing. Red: recording.
Flashing: a press of SAVE saves now.
The moon on every page is the battery: new when empty, full when full, a ring of stars on USB power.

EVERY HOLD

After two failed starts the FM1 opens SAFE MODE: no sound, USB on, so the web installer still reaches it. PLAY tries again.