LCD-4

A pocket groovebox for the M-VAVE FM-1

Four tracks: a drum machine and three synths, in 16-step patterns you chain together, with chords the synths follow and sixteen punch-in effects, after the little synths that live in a calculator's body. Every sound is modelled on a classic's circuit, and each one has its own little LCD game on the screen that moves with the music.

LCD-4's screen: the 808 kit, Pip the drummer at the kit, the bass drum's steps

LCD-4's screen: the Acid sound, a lab whose flasks bubble on every note

LCD-4's screen: the Arcade sound, a platform game

The tracks

Drums. Four kits of eleven parts on the black keys: an 808, a 909, an arcade console's (pulse kicks, noise snares, blips, zaps and a coin), and a rhythm box (a CR-78 and a 606). The white keys are the part's steps, as on X0X.
Basses. Acid (a TB-303, with its accents and slides), Mono (SH-101), Fat (Minimoog), Boom (an 808 sub), FM bass (DX7), Reese.
Keys. Poly (a Juno-60 and its chorus), Brass (Prophet-5 / OB-Xa), E.Piano (DX7), Organ (the M1's house organ), Strings (Solina, its ensemble), Bells.
Leads. Sync, Scream (MS-20), Arcade (NES and Game Boy channels, a tracker's effects) and Arp (chip arpeggios). Any synth track loads any sound.

Sixteen patterns, chains of up to 64; sixteen chords and chains of them; effects held or written onto the steps; parameter locks, ratchets, slides and swing; writing live or step by step. Four demo songs to start from.

To go back to the official firmware, use the installer's "Back to the stock firmware", or M-VAVE's updater, M-UPGRADE, from m-vave.com/download. M-VAVE and FM-1 are trademarks of their owners. LCD-4 is independent: it is not affiliated with M-VAVE, Teenage Engineering, Nintendo or the makers of the instruments its sounds are modelled on, and its art is its own.