Maku37

genkigenkiv0.1Updated Oct 13, 20261 on GitHub

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Maku37 ports okumurari2’s MAKU ambience instrument to the M-VAVE SMK-37 PRO, with the keyboard adaptation by genkigenki. It starts with a randomly generated musical world in the selected key, built from four parts: pulse, floor, haze and voice. Performance actions such as sink, cascade, swell, wobble, lift, scramble and drift reshape the texture. The keyboard’s top-row buttons and wheels trigger those actions, 16 pads recall liked worlds or edit the pulse steps, and faders hold action amounts and space. Encoders control macros and the four part levels. MIDI clock uses USB. This is experimental replacement firmware, with distinct packages for supported model variants.

License: GPL-3.0-only

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