Charles Vestal
Turns the unit into a MIDI controller with its own GM sounds.
ControllerUntestedOpen source
Community firmware
M-VAVE FM-1 firmware
Find a new sound for your pocket synth. Explore instruments, grooveboxes and playful experiments.
About the M-VAVE FM-1
A pocket FM synthesizer with 27 keys, seven encoders and a colour screen. Its USB update path is open enough that the community now writes whole new instruments for it.
- Replaceable firmwareReported by the community
- Community firmware replaces the whole instrument through the vendor's own update path.
- Update pathReported by the community
- Firmware travels as SysEx over USB MIDI; authors' browser installers use Web MIDI.
- Built on
- JieLi AC791N · System-on-chip · FM-1-RE
Play the virtual M-VAVE FM-1
Explore firmware with its screen, keys and controls in the shared CPU emulator.
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Installable firmware
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Felucca played from an Arturia MiniLab 3.
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Other places to find M-VAVE FM-1 firmware
These community projects keep their own lists and installers. Facts on this page were checked on 12 Oct 2026 against GitHub, the authors’ pages and the directories below.
- awesome-fm-1 · The most complete link list: firmware, tools, recovery, editors, banks, videos and communities.
- fm1-editor.com firmware directory · Every firmware with its status, latest version and install links, plus a watch list.
- FMDB, the FM-1 & SMK-37 firmware database · Stanley Gurvich's bot-updated list of about 240 FM-1 and SMK-37 firmwares and 50 tools, with lineage and features read from each project's source; feeds the RELAY editor.
- FM-1 Firmware Hub · Installs open-source firmware over Web MIDI with checksum checks, and can reinstall V15.
- fm-static · A web installer for units whose MIDI port has another name.