WaveLoop Kit

An FM-1 instrument mod for the MiniLab 3. Plug in over DIN MIDI and play without a computer.

Choppa → FM-1

Record anything on your phone. Choppa chops it into 16 pads. Send the bank straight to an FM-1 track.

Record a take in Choppa.
Plug the phone or tablet into the FM-1 with USB-C.
Hold a bank, choose SEND TO FM-1, pick a track. Listen to how it will sound first.

COMING IN 1.13

Get Choppa

Making your own sender? The sample format and transfer are open: editor protocol.

Problems → solutions

Four song slots → 12 complete songs in a setlist.
Forgetting to save → current song and setlist order autosave.
Hard to mix → four track faders with finer control near the top.
Shared drum edits → separate sound, volume, pan and sends per drum.
Lost in menus → MIDI parameter popups and encoder track switching.

MiniLab mappings: normal and Alt controls.

Editor → Dev shows memory, storage and performance readouts.

Sounds

From midi24, HOME shows all four tracks at once, one waveform each, so you can see which track is sounding.

A thin line at the bottom of the FM-1 screen shows your patch’s position in its bank.

Up to 32 patches per synth bank: basses, pads, keys, leads and textures. Voice has 26 patches with its bass sounds removed. Other patches keep their numbers.

808: deeper, longer kick, fuller snare and clap, smoother metallic hats.
CR78: dry kick and snare, soft maracas, woody conga, short claves and a rounded bell.
Yama-bruh: eight FM kits, from Standard and Brush to Synth and Lo-Fi.

Choose a kit in the DRUM bank; Yama-bruh kits start with YB. Edit and mix each drum separately.

Play

MiniLab control	FM-1 action
Faders 1–4	Track volumes 1–4
Top knob 1	Master filter: low-pass / clean / high-pass
Top 2–4	Synth EDIT 2–4; drum pan / reverb / delay
Bottom 5–8	Synth HOME 1–3 / LFO speed; drum pitch / tone / decay / volume
Alt + top 1 / 2 / 3	Cutoff LFO rate / amount / shape; FM6 brightness
Alt + bottom 5–8	Synths: attack / decay / sustain / release FM6: algorithm / feedback / modulator ratio / envelope time
Encoder / Arturia Shift + encoder	Preset / sound engine for MIDI channel
Encoder click	Cycle displayed track
Mod strip	Pitch vibrato
A-bank pad 1, held	Alt button
A-bank pads 2–8, held	Repeat ×2, reverse, tape stop, freeze, octave up/down
Alt + pad 8	Tap tempo
Alt + faders	Track delay + reverb
B-bank pads 1–2	Previous / next setlist song
B-bank pads 5–8	Stop / Play / Record current track / Tap tempo

Hold Alt (cyan A-bank pad 1) for the second layer. Knobs follow the keyboard MIDI channel. LFO rate and shape are shared with vibrato; amount at centre is off, left reverses the motion. The destination varies by engine; WHEEL ignores the amount. Higher FM6 envelope time values mean slower modulator envelopes. Alt + DRUM knobs, Alt + top knob 4 and Alt + pads 2–7 are unassigned.

LFO shapes: sine, triangle, saw, square and sample-and-hold.

Setlist

FM-1: SEQ → SETLIST. Knob 1 picks a song; knob 2 moves it. Knobs 3/4 pick Load/Save; OCT+ confirms.
Save into an empty entry once. Future edits evolve that song automatically.
Stop and leave five seconds of actual silence. Autosave waits for effect tails and settled edits.
Song changes wait for silence and save the current song first. Press Play after loading.
Each song stores tempo, sounds, drum settings, sequences and automation.
Two user sample slots remain. Slot 3 supplies the extra song storage.

Setup

Back up your FM-1, then install this mod.
Import the MiniLab preset in Arturia MIDI Control Center. Store it to User 5 and activate User 5.
Set FM-1 ROUT to CH1-4. Use MIDI channels 1–4 for the four tracks.
Use the correct DIN-to-TRS adapter. A computer is only needed for setup.

Patterns run up to 64 steps: SEQ → PATTERN → LEN. Page through groups of 16.

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Unofficial mod of Felucca by Hügelton Instruments. Original credits and GPL-3.0 licensing retained.