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Mini-Tone
The repository contains the code for my freely available FM-1 firmware
- Custom firmware
- Stable
- Medium brick risk
- Reversible
This project hasn't been claimed by its maintainer yet, so its details come from the community. Is it yours? Claim it
Latest release · 26 Oct 2026minitone-1.0.5
- Fixed the noise issue with the ELEK reverv
Before you start
- How hard is it?
- MediumInstall an app on your computer and follow its steps.
- What you need
- Nothing beyond the device, as far as the project says.
- Can it break my device?
- Small chance of trouble, with a way to recover.
- Can I undo it?
- Yes. You can go back to the official software.
Get itOpens github.com
Did it work for you?
Did Mini-Tone minitone-1.0.5 work on your M-VAVE FM-1?
No reports yet for minitone-1.0.5.
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Compatibility
Devices: M-VAVE FM-1.
No compatibility information yet.
Risk and recovery
- Brick risk
- Medium
- Reversible
- Yes
- Requires opening the device
- No
From the project's README ("Features"):
- Nine engines (below), each with its own factory presets; every factory sound has a category (BASS, LEAD, PAD, PLUCK, KEYS, DRUM, FX, OTHER) to browse by
- Six tracks, one synth part each with its own engine and sound (drums are the DRUM engine); 8 voices shared between them (tracks 5 and 6 are saved in a flash extension of each project slot). ALGORITHM selects the track on every page
- Sequencer: 64 steps per track with chords, ties, accent, slide, per-step chance, velocity, a force for each note (ghost, soft, normal, hard), fill conditions and ratchets (a step, or each note of it, played 2, 3 or 4 times in its length); a piano roll of the steps, where KNOB 3 sets a note's length; a drum grid (white keys = steps, black keys = lanes); automation: recording of knob moves per step (an automation icon marks the cards it drives); live loop recording with overdub; step recording at the cursor (REC on SEQ > STEP while stopped), one chord at a time or note by note (MENU > CHORD ENTRY ADD); divisions listed by length, 4 bars to 1/32; loading a sound never touches your patterns
- Timing: live recording keeps when you played each note, as a per-step NUDGE (1/64 of a step, half a step early to 31/64 late; the AUTOMATION list and the web editor set it in sixteenths); the track's QUANTIZE decides what plays: ON (the default) every step on the grid, as always, OFF your own timing. Nudges can also be set by hand …
Releases
| Version | Name | Released |
|---|---|---|
| minitone-1.0.5 | —Latest | 26 October 2026 |
| minitone-1.0.4 | — | 25 October 2026 |
| minitone-1.0.3 | — | 24 October 2026 |
| minitone-1.0.2 | — | 23 October 2026 |
| minitone-1.0.1 | — | 21 October 2026 |
| minitone-1.0.0 | — | 18 October 2026 |
Credits, license and support
- License
- GPL-3.0