The 1981 Elka Synthex,
reborn on the FM-1.

All 80 factory sounds, Paul Wiffen's laser harp "Ring mod." among them: the Synthex of synthex-web, ported to integer C and checked sample by sample against the original, playing on the FM-1's own CPU. Two layers of 8 voices, chorus and reverb, and the four knobs edit what is on the screen.

Or the .fwsc from the latest release, with the FM-1 Firmware Hub or firmware/tools/fm1_install.py. Scintilla is also a module of fm1-dock, next to other synths.

Scintilla on the FM-1, playing the laser harp (Ring mod.), with laser beams above it

What it is

The sounds

The Synthex's 80 factory sounds: PRESETS 10 to 49 and MEMORIES 10 to 49, on the PRESETS knob.

The voices

Two layers of 8 voices, single, split or double; poly, mono or unison; glide and portamento.

The effects

Chorus, and an algorithmic reverb: plate, room, hall or galactic.

On the knobs

KNOB1 to KNOB4 edit the four parameters on the screen, on pages for the oscillators, mixer, filter, envelopes, LFOs, glide, output, reverb and joystick.

MIDI

In over USB and the DIN jack: notes with velocity, pitch bend, CC 1, 74, 91 and 93, program change. Velocity and aftertouch from the FM-1's own keys.

What it keeps

Its settings only: its sounds are built in, and it reads no other firmware's projects or samples. Not there yet: the delay, and saving edited sounds.

The 1981 Elka Synthex,reborn on the FM-1.