viscera
Emulator · PUTTY
Play it before
you flash it.
The same code the FM-1 runs, compiled for the browser: the engine, the screen and the controls. A demo loop, an audio file, your computer's audio or a microphone stands in for Bluetooth and USB audio in.
FM-1Right-click a button to hold it · again to let goVISCERA
KNOBSTap REC to capture the input, tap again to end it. KNOB 1–4 work it like putty; hold REC and turn one for a robot; hold OCT− or OCT+ and turn to move the pair.
Live input (Bluetooth / USB)
A demo loop plays in. Tap REC on HANDS, tap again: A catches it. B catches what A plays.
PC audio: in the share dialog pick a tab (or Entire screen on Windows) and turn on “Share audio”. Input device: a virtual cable (BlackHole on a Mac, VB-Cable on Windows) brings in a DAW or any app.
Sample bank
Drop a WAV or MP3 on a slot, or click one to choose a file. A track set to REEL plays them (REEL S1–S16), as well as captures you KEEP.
Controls
- Turning
- drag up and down, scroll, or focus and use the arrow keys
- REC
- on HANDS, SHARDS, SPECTRA or SOURCE: tap to capture, tap to end; hold to overdub; hold and turn a knob for a robot; REC + PLAY clears; SAVE + REC keeps it on the reel
- HOME
- HANDS: stretch, pitch, position and size of the window, A and B together
- FX
- SHARDS: glass-shard grains, by shape, density, spray and trigger
- SEL
- SPECTRA: the phase vocoder; stretch, blur, shift, cross with the partner
- EDIT
- SOURCE (capture, reel or thru; input, rate, bounce), then MIX
- ENV
- COLOR: drive, comp, crush, tilt, noise
- LFO
- the matrix and the four modulators; hold LFO and turn a knob to map
- GLO
- SPACE, then DISSECT (the listener), then SETTINGS
- ARP
- perform: eight macros, scenes (ARP + pad)
- SEQ
- steps (SLICE, PITCH, LEN, PROB each) or CAROM
- SAVE
- projects, then sounds: REC loads or saves, SAVE + PLAY saves over; hold SAVE and turn a knob for MIDI learn
- OCT− / OCT+
- held with a knob: both tracks of the pair move, together or apart; both held: TEMP
- SELECT · ALGORITHM · PRESETS
- the page's views · the track (A–D) · the page's list
- Pads
- click, or type Z X C V… / and Q W E R T Y; sharps on S D F H J… and 3 4 6
- Space
- PLAY
- MIDI
- channels 1–4 play A–D; CCs, clock and start/stop follow