Commands
/ Ctrl/Cmd+Kcommand palette: add a module, insert an assembly, open a patch, any action
Ctrl/Cmd+Ssave the patch to Your patches
Ctrl/Cmd+Bcollapse / expand the sidebar
?this list
Esccancel a connection, finish choosing or arranging what a card shows, close a dialog
Selection
click / Shift-click a titleselect a card / add it to the selection; drag on the empty canvas to select an area
Ctrl/Cmd+Aselect every card on the canvas
Ctrl/Cmd+Dduplicate the selection with its settings and the cables among it
Ctrl/Cmd+CCtrl/Cmd+XCtrl/Cmd+Vcopy, cut, paste the selection with the cables among it, also into another patch (Main and the Output stay)
Ctrl/Cmd+Gmake an assembly from the selection
Delete Backspaceremove the selection
Bbypass / un-bypass the selection
←→↑↓nudge the selection (with Shift: ten times further); with nothing selected, ←→ put the previous / next device on Main’s knobs, ↑↓ its previous / next page
Ctrl/Cmd+Z Shift+Ctrl/Cmd+Zundo, redo
Ctrl/Cmd + wheelzoom the canvas (pinch on a touch screen)
right-click a titlethe card’s ⋯ menu
Patching
click a jack, then anotherconnect (dragging works too)
click a cabledisconnect it; grey routes are built into the module
drop on a thumbmodulate that parameter (depth in its ⋮ menu); Alt-drag a thumb to patch from it
Ctrl/Cmd-click a rowin an expanded assembly: show it on the collapsed card, or take it off
Controls
←→ ↑↓with nothing selected: the previous / next device on Main’s knobs, and its previous / next page, round within the device
hold 1–4 + wheelturn knob K1–K4 of that page
a Steps card’s rollthe piano roll under the canvas, as in Ableton: click a note to select it (Shift adds), drag to move (Option: a copy), its edges for length / start, Cmd-drag for velocity; drag a band on the empty grid; double-click adds or removes a note, right-click removes; Delete, arrows (Shift+↑↓ an octave, Shift+←→ length), Cmd+A C X V D, B draw mode, Fold; drag the ruler for the length; the wheel scrolls the pitches, a key on its side plays; Esc closes
a Steps card’s armMain’s keys play into that track and through to its instrument (one track at a time; again: Main gets its keys back)
a Steps card’s rec, Shift+Rrecord on the armed track. Stopped: a note or a chord (the keys held when the first is let go) fills the cursor’s step; Backspace a rest, Enter a tie, ←→ move, Esc stops. Running: play along, notes land on the nearest step, each pass overdubs and is one undo step
Ctrl/Cmd-click a steptie it to the note before (it holds on through the step)
hoverthe status line under the keyboard says what it is and what it does; the FM-1 budget is at its right
touch screenpinch to zoom the canvas, two fingers to pan it, anywhere on it; one finger pans the empty canvas or a card’s body and works a control as a mouse would. Swipe the dock sideways for the rest of Main (from a knob or a button too); drag a knob up and down to turn it
drag a sliderset its value; press anywhere on the bar to jump there
Shift-dragfine: a slider at a tenth of the speed, a knob or envelope corner finer too
double-clicka knob, wheel or envelope display: back to its default; a heading or assembly title: rename it
click a rowits device page goes on Main’s knobs K1..K4 (dotted lines and numbered badges show which knob turns which row); DEVICE / PAGE in the dock step through them, as SELECT / ALGO do on the FM-1. MIDI CC 16..19 turn them too
double-click a value bartype a value (2k, 440 Hz, 120 ms, 50 %, a choice by name); Enter sets, Tab sets and moves on, Esc cancels
Playing
AWSEDFTGYHUJKOLPplay notes, C up to D#
Z Xoctave down / up
Spacethe transport (PLAY in the dock): Main’s run output and clock
+ ARP in the dockARP with nothing on it: a click puts an arpeggiator on it (a menu asks where when there is more than one way); Undo in the toast
On the FM-1
HOMEback one step (out of the SEQ page, out of the menu); on the device pages with nothing to go back to it does nothing. Held: the settings menu
ALGO / SELECTALGO moves sideways (a device’s pages, the menu’s tabs), SELECT picks (the device, a menu row)
GLOMain’s global page on K1..K4: tempo, morph, the first arpeggiator’s rate and gate; its footer lists what each patch button does. GLO again or HOME: back
a Page buttona press: the next page of its list; held: its first page while it is down. ALGO steps the list, SELECT leaves it
PRESETonly steps through the patches; PLAY held + PRESET: the tempo
SAVEthe patch into its slot, with the panel settings; in the menu it also closes it