FM-1 Player

Install RemoteFM1

RemoteFM1 turns the M-VAVE FM-1 into a USB panel. Its keys, buttons, knobs and MASTER go to the computer, and the computer draws its screen and lights its LEDs. It makes no sound on its own: a firmware running on the computer plays, in this site's player, in FM1VST or in fm1remote.

Before you start

ChoralRoot users: back up first with ChoralRoot's own page (its installer's Back up button). RemoteFM1 reads and writes nothing of what ChoralRoot keeps, and ChoralRoot finds it all when you go back; a backup costs a minute and covers the unexpected.

Close every app that uses MIDI: DAWs (Ableton Live, Logic, ...), synth editors, and other browser tabs with an FM-1 page. An app sending MIDI clock to the FM-1 can stall an install halfway.

Chrome or Edge on a computer: installing needs Web MIDI with SysEx. The FM-1 charged, switched on and connected with a USB data cable, directly. Installing firmware is at your own risk.

Install

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Then

    
The FM-1 restarts showing REMOTE FM1 / WAITING FOR HOST, its key lights dim. Open the
      player in Chrome or Edge: once MIDI is allowed for this site, it connects to the FM-1 by itself (the
      Connect FM-1 button at its top shows the state; press it if it stays grey). Pick a firmware and press Play.
      On a Mac, fm1remote and FM1VST use it too (how).

  


  

    
If an install is cut off

    
A pulled cable or a flat battery is not the end: switch the FM-1 off and on. Three short flashes of the key
      lights and a black screen mean update mode. Open this page (or the installer you were using) and press
      Install again with the same firmware: it finishes the write. Holding OCT- while switching on gives the
      same update mode at any time.

    
Do not switch off and on twice in a row while it is in update mode: the second time it drops into the
      chip's own USB boot ("WL82 UBOOT1.00"), where MvaveFM1Unbricker
      (Windows or Linux) or the FM-1 Transporter take over.
      Arriving from the official V15, a cut-off write ends there rather than in update mode.

  


  

    
Leaving RemoteFM1

    
Install the next firmware with its own installer, as you would over the official firmware: RemoteFM1 answers
      every installer as V15 (FM-1_015, USB device "FM-1"). ChoralRoot's, Felucca's, the
      FM-1 Firmware Hub's: any of them. RemoteFM1 writes the next firmware with its
      own update loader, the first sector last. To go back to stock, install M-VAVE's FM-1.fwsc (below).

    
Baud Girl, and any firmware whose image is larger than the app area: install the official V15 first, then
      that firmware from V15 with its own installer.

    

      Install a package file from here
      
An FM-1 package (.fwsc), for example M-VAVE's FM-1.fwsc or the release of the
        firmware you are going to. Also finishes a cut-off install of that file.