controls · AISLING on the M-VAVE FM-1
cheat sheetYour FM-1's colours:
The drawing alone, at full size.
In short
| White keys | Play the Lead (the piece's flute, fiddle or voice), in the piece's scale (the key it sounds is lit) |
| Black keys | Eleven effects, each while held (lit; dark while held): Ceo, Macalla, Fras, Repeat, Shimmer, Freeze, Octave, Return, then Rise, Close, Transpose (in PERFORM: the solos) |
| PLAY · REC · EDIT | Play / rest · a tap: hold (the echo repeats what it holds), held: the effects grid (16 effects on the white keys) · a tap: the Chords page, held: the next chord |
| SEL | PERFORM (again: back to the page you came from): the knobs Filter, Wet, Energy, Chorus; every one of the 27 keys an effect on the whole music while held (the white keys in fours: Rhythm, Echo, Space, Colour); SAVE tapped there: the Lead forgets its ideas and its theme. Held: Lock |
| HOME | The Aisling page (Filter, Evolve, Motion, Drift; ALGORITHM, Evolve's timing); again, the Key page (Tempo, Root, Mode, Transpose). Held, with OCT− or OCT+: undo or redo |
| ENV | The Drone (Pedal, Reso, Phaser, Attack); again, its sound (Colour, Release, Reverb, Echo); again, its Move page (Width, Time, Rate, Intro) |
| ARP | The Sequence (Density, Octave, Length, Grid); again, its sound (Cutoff, Decay, Reverb, Echo); again, its Repeats (Repeat A, A time, Repeat B, B time); again, its Move page |
| LFO | The Lead (Phrases, Octave, Ornament, Vibrato); again, its sound (Tone, Attack, Reverb, Echo); again, its style (Ornament, Glide, Vibrato, Memory); again, its Move page |
| SEQ | Sequence 2 (Chance, Octave, Length, Level); again, its sound; again, the Pattern page (write the steps on the keys); again, its Move page |
| SAVE | The Atmosphere (Density, Width, Drift, Air); again, its sound (Colour, Ring, Reverb, Echo); again, its Move page. Held: save |
| FX | Space (Echo, Echo time, Feedback, Reverb); again, the Echo page (Blur, Tone, Width, Size) |
| GLO | Setup (Tune, MIDI out, Lights, Save; ALGORITHM, the sleep timer); again, the Arc (Lead in, Bridge, Arc, Memory); again, the Journey (Piece, In set, Day; SELECT, the stay on each piece). Held: save; held on: the piece back to its recipe |
| ALGORITHM | On a layer's page, its voice (the Atmosphere: its character); on the Aisling page, Evolve's timing; on the Setup page, the sleep timer |
| PRESETS | The piece |
| SELECT | On a layer's pages, its level; on the Aisling page, Energy (elsewhere nothing) |
| OCT− / OCT+ | On the Sequence's, the Lead's and Sequence 2's pages, its octave (lit while it's above or below where the piece was loaded) |
The manual has the rest; the cheat sheet draws the steps as flows, then this table with each control as it looks, to print on one sheet.