Matryoshka

Matryoshka 1.6.0 changes how the FM-1 decides what its keys play. SEL arms a device so the keys play it, and SEL again disarms it. On the environment page, SEL layers several devices. REC now records the same way on every page. Also in this release: the piano roll's black keys pick rows, ties on drum grids, and two XL fixes.

Install: open https://matryoshka.lol/, go to the Flash tab, and install FM-1_716 (v1.6.0). It plays patches from 1.5; the patch format is unchanged.

Checked on these exact bytes: the emulator smoke test (182 checks), the scripted checks on our test FM-1 (108 checks), and the owner's hands-on check on that FM-1.

Changes

• On the FM-1, SEL arms what the keys play (#395). SEL on a device page arms that device and disarms the others, so the keys play it; an instrument whose keys come through a track and an Arpeggiator (every factory instrument) is armed with them, and REC records that track. On a device with no keys input, or an Arpeggiator alone, the bar says NOTHING HERE TAKES KEYS and nothing changes. In the editor, arming an instrument works the same way. SEL on an armed device's page disarms it again (the others stay armed; the last one out leaves the keys wired). SEL on an environment row adds that device to the armed ones or takes it out (a layer or a split); REC there no longer arms. With nothing armed the keys are wired: Main's cables decide where they go, as before, and the footer says KEYS WIRED after the patch's name. A patch loads wired. The SEQ page arms the track it shows when it opens and when ALGO picks another. SEL no longer opens the SEQ page (SEQ does), a row's device pages, or an assembly's preset list; a device's presets are still stepped with PRESET or ALGO on its environment row. On the SEQ page the track line's SEQ+REC: CLEAR hint no longer fits next to ARMED.
• On the FM-1, REC records the same way on every page (#395). With the transport stopped, REC starts it and records; running, REC records; REC again stops recording and the transport goes on. PLAY stops both. What records is every armed Steps track, over the notes already there, and a track armed while REC is on records from then on (ALGO on the SEQ page included). REC never changes the page: it no longer opens the SEQ page, and SEQ is the only way there. With no track armed REC still runs and the bar says REC: NO TRACK ARMED. On a drum grid a black key now always sounds its row and picks it, and while recording it also records the hit; SELECT moves the row silently. On the piano roll, all 27 keys play and record while REC records, and the black keys pick rows otherwise. Gone: REC with nothing armed recording hits from the black keys, REC on the SEQ page while stopped, and REC arming the roll's track itself.
• On the FM-1's piano roll the black keys pick the rows, not the track (#387). Black keys 1 to 8 are the 8 pitches on screen, black key 1 the bottom one, and they follow the window as SELECT scrolls it. With the transport stopped the row picked sounds, with REC on or off; its black key is lit, as on the drum grid. ALGO picks the track. Before, black key n switched to track n, so in a one-track patch only the first did anything. SEQ held or REC held + a black key still mutes or arms track n, and a live take still plays all 27 keys.

Patches

• 8 Lire XL's TUNE is continuous, as the Lyra-8's knob: each tune row is an Offset into its voice's pitch, ±4 octaves in hundredths of an octave (12 cents), from the voice's own tuning. It stepped in semitones before. The default sound is unchanged (rendered sample for sample); the XL has 151 modules (143) and an estimated 146 % CPU (144 %).
• Meridian 8 XL's gate inputs take any voltage, as the NOON's: the inputs gate 1..gate 8 power their channel directly, after its mute button, so an offset, a held gate, an LFO or an oscillator there drones the channels that hold a sound (DOT, for one) with no key held. The keys still play the channels as before. The default sound is unchanged (rendered sample for sample); the XL has 180 modules (172) and an estimated 148 % CPU (143 %).

Fixes

• Choosing what an assembly's card shows: a switch row's check box no longer covers its name. On rows with named positions (a Selector, such as Io 4's ASSIGN or LEGATO) the name now moves right of the box and gets more of the row, as on a slider's row (#342).
• Space after clicking Octave down / Octave up starts the transport again. The button no longer keeps the focus after a click, so Space no longer pressed it a second time. Reached from the keyboard, it keeps the focus (#208).
• Ties on the FM-1's drum-track grids, and ties that reach (#368). On the SEQ page, LFO held + a white key now ties a note on a track that plays a Drum map, as it already did on the piano roll. A Drum map row stays up while its note sounds, so a tie holds a voice that sustains, such as a Lire plate or an Elvira voice. On both grids the tie now reaches: the row's last note before that step is extended to end on it, so one press ties step 1 through step 16 (before, the key only tied the note sounding on the step before). LFO + a step inside a note ends it there, and LFO + its last step makes it one step again (before, a tied step cut the note before it). With no note before the step the bar says NOTHING TO TIE; a tie does not run across the end of the loop. The grid draws a tied note's steps dim and joined, and a white key on a step a tie runs through cuts the tie there and starts a hit. Notes made longer in the editor's piano roll now show their length on the FM-1 too.
• Held black keys on the FM-1's drum grids (#368). On a drum track's SEQ page a black key now sounds its row for as long as it is held, not as a one-step hit, with REC on or off and the transport running or stopped. With REC on and