About

I am a composer. My music lives between two worlds: the slow weight of strings and brass, and the restless movement of synthesizers.

I make my own instruments because the sounds I hear are not always for sale. Some are plug-ins, some are firmware for small hardware synths like the M-VAVE FM-1. All of them start from the same question: what would I want under my hands?

Play them, bend them, make something with them. My music is at barnirmusic.com.

Everything here is free. The source of both firmwares is open, with notes on what worked, what did not, and the measurements:

github.com/barnierg76/golf-fm1
github.com/barnierg76/tekstuur-fm1

Thanks

These firmwares stand on fm1-base by Charles Vestal and on felucca-bsp and Felucca by Leo Kuroshita (Hügelton Instruments), who opened up the FM-1. Tekstuur's sources are from VSCO-2 CE and VCSL by Versilian Studios (CC0).

Contact

Found a bug or have an idea? Open an issue on the firmware's GitHub page. The install page can read a crash report from your FM-1 to paste in.