Gnomad Synth V1 · the map, 1 of 2

Every button, knob, layer and page.

CONTROLS
firmware 81727bd · 10 pictures · 57 sounds
5 engines · 5 grooves

E EasyA Advanced knob 1knob 2knob 3knob 4 the four knobs, in their colours SAVE a button

The panel.

One panel, two modes. E Easy is the pictures, the Gnome and the loop. A Advanced is every page of the synth, in Gnomad's colours. Hold HOME + SAVE for 2 seconds to switch.

MASTER

EVolume.

AVolume.

SELECT

ETurns the page ring: HOME SOUND GROOVES LOOP STEPS MIX, round and round.

ATempo.

PRESETS

EThe sound inside the picture; the list stays until you play. On LOOP: the five grooves.

AThe sound (on HOME and the Sounds page).

ALGORITHM

EThe picture: 10 of them, round and round.

AThe track, 1 to 4.

OCT- OCT+

EOctave, two either way. On a kit: pads A (1-8) and B (9-16).

AOctave, three either way; both: back to 0. On action pages OCT+ does it, OCT- goes back.

KNOB 1-4

EBlue, green, yellow, vermilion: the sound's four, or the page's.

AThe page's four columns.

FX SCL ENV LFO

ETracks 1 to 4. The lit one is the track you play. Hold FX and play keys: audition the sound, its four knobs on any page.

ATheir pages: effects, scale, envelope, wobble. Hold FX or SCL: a layer.

EDIT

ETap: tap tempo. Hold: SHIFT, the page's deeper layer.

AThe engine's pages. Hold: choose the engine.

GLO

EThe four volumes, and back. Hold GLO and play keys: a fill; with PLAY: stop at the bar's end.

AMixer, global settings, system. Hold: quick mix.

HOME

EHome: the four tracks. On Home: the sound. A picker up: closes it first.

AHome. Hold: the menu.

SAVE

ETap: save the song. Hold: undo; the screen names what came off.

ASave pages (sounds, projects). Hold: undo the last sound load.

ARP

EArpeggio on and off.

AArpeggio pages.

SEQ

EThe loop's pages: LOOP, STEPS, RECORD.

ASequencer pages. Hold: SONG.

PLAY / STOP

EStart; a tap stops. Hold 0.4 s while playing: from the top at the next bar; hold again: now.

AStart and stop. With GLO held: from the top.

REC

ETap: armed (stopped, PLAY counts 4 3 2 1). Hold 0.4 s while playing: punch in.

ARecord.

THE 27 KEYS

EF3 to G5, every key its own note. A kit: the white keys are its 16 drums, the black keys 11 more. On GROOVES: keys 1 to 9 pick a groove. On STEPS: the bar's 16 places.

APlay the track. On the STEP page: write notes.

Hold a button.

While a button is held its keys and knobs do something else, and the screen says what. Let go and they play again.

Hold GLO: a fill

FILL (KEYS) STOP AT BAR (PLAY)

Any key rolls its note in sixteenths, on the beat, while you hold it (four at once). Nothing is written, recorded or sent out. Add PLAY: stop at the bar's end.

Hold FX: audition

AUDITION (KEYS) SOUND (K1-K4)

TONEMOTIONECHOSPACEtry the sound, and turn its four (ECHO, SPACE too), from any page. Nothing is written.

Hold EDIT: SHIFT

after 0.5 s, the page's deeper layer

HOMEFX SCL ENV LFO mute and unmute that track
SOUNDthe sound's own four, as they are (no deeper page)
STEPS, RECORDSTEPNOTESTRENGTH (a kit: DRUM)
MIXFX .. LFO mute; the knobs stay the volumes (no pan: the core is mono)
EVERY PAGESELECT the tempo, a beat a click CLICK on K3: right ON, left OFF

Hold a key on STEPS

the white keys are the bar's 16 places

NOTESTRENGTHLENGTHWHENtap a key: a step on or off

WHEN: ALWAYS 100% OFTEN 75% SOMETIMES 50% RARELY 25% HARDLY 10%

Hold FX

[FX] Live effects

FilterCrushSendDepth / ShimmerWhite keys play an effect while held; black keys 1-4 mute a track while held. Let go: gone.

Hold GLO

[GLO] Quick mix

Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Black keys mute (they stay); F3-B3 solo while held; C4 unmutes all; F4 taps the tempo. GLO + PLAY: from the top.

Hold SCL

[SCL] Key and chord

RootScaleChordVoicingAny key: its note is the root. OCT- puts back what the layer changed.

Hold EDIT

[EDIT] Choose engine

EngineSoundFavouriteA white key picks the engine, in this order; the next one resets the sound.

No button held

a melody: every key its own note

The Gnome sings a syllable on each key, twelve before they come round.

No button held, on a drum kit

KIT, DRUM MACHINE, HAND DRUM, TOMS

The white keys are the kit's sixteen; the black keys the eleven others, each once.

On GROOVES

KEYS 1 TO 9: PLAY A GROOVE

Playing: the groove starts at the next bar line; the same key again: now. Stopped: at once. Over a loop not kept it asks first.

Two at once.

Every combination the firmware answers to, and nothing else.

HOME + SAVE 2 s

EASwitch Easy and Advanced. Nothing musical changes.

PLAY held 0.4 s

EPlaying: from the top at the next bar line (RESTART NEXT BAR).

PLAY held again

EBefore that bar: from the top now.

GLO held + PLAY

EStop at the bar's end (STOP AT BAR END); again: stop now.

GLO held + keys

EA fill: each key rolls in sixteenths on the beat. Never recorded.

FX held + keys

EAudition the sound; K1-K4 are its four on any page.

SAVE held 0.7 s

EUndo, and the band names it: LAST TAKE, STEP EDIT, BARS, SNAP, STEPS.

SAVE held

AUndo the last sound load.

EDIT held + SELECT

EThe tempo, a beat a click, the big number on screen.

EDIT held + KNOB 3

EThe metronome: right ON, left OFF; the band says CLICK ON. It clicks while recording or counting in.

EDIT held + FX .. LFO

EMute or unmute that track.

a white key held + KNOB 1-4

EOn STEPS: that step's note, strength, length and when.

REC then PLAY

ECount in 4 3 2 1, then record into the selected track.

REC held 0.4 s

EWhile the loop plays: punch in until you let go.

GLO held + PLAY

APlay from the top without stopping.

HOME held

AThe menu.

SEQ held

AThe SONG page.

OCT- + OCT+

AOctave back to 0.

OCT- + OCT+ held 5 s

EAUpdate mode, for installing firmware.

EDIT on STEP

AClear the step. On USER or PROJECT: rename.

Every page, knob 1 to 4.

E Easy's pages, as the synth draws them. SELECT turns the ring of six; the dots under the tempo say where you are.

Page	Get there	Knob 1 2 3 4	What it is	The screen's band
HOME	`HOME` or `SELECT`	TONEMOTIONECHOSPACE the sound's four	The four tracks at a glance: sound, level, mute, playing.	SOUND (HOME) NOTES (SEQ)
SOUND	`HOME` on Home	TONEMOTIONECHOSPACE or its own words	The picture and its four knobs, named.	SOUNDS (PRESETS) PAGES (SELECT)
GROOVES	`SELECT`	TONEMOTIONECHOSPACE	The shelf: FACTORY grooves on keys 1-5, your four saved loops (MINE) on 6-9. Playing: next bar; the key again: now.	KEYS 1 TO 9: PLAY A GROOVE
LOOP	`SEQ` or `SELECT`	BARSSWINGSNAPVOLUME	Four lanes across one bar. PRESETS here: the five grooves.	PAGES (SELECT) STEPS (SEQ)
STEPS	`SEQ` twice	BARPENSNAPVOLUME a kit: DRUM	One bar up close; tap the white keys to write.	KEYS: STEPS HOLD A KEY + KNOB
MIX	`GLO`	1 (FX)2 (SCL)3 (ENV)4 (LFO)	The four volumes.	VOLUMES BACK (GLO)
RECORD	`SEQ` three times	MOVENOTE/RESTSNAPKEEP a kit: MOVE DRUM NOTE/REST	Stopped: a key writes at the cursor. Playing: hold REC to record.	K1 MOVE K2 NOTE/REST
PICTURES	turn `ALGORITHM`	TONEMOTIONECHOSPACE	The picture wheel. It stays until HOME, PLAY, a key or PRESETS.	TURN ALGORITHM: PICTURE
SOUNDS	turn `PRESETS`	TONEMOTIONECHOSPACE	The picture's sounds in a list. It stays until HOME, PLAY, a key or ALGORITHM.	TURN PRESETS: SOUND
TEMPO	tap `EDIT`	CLICK	Tap tempo: from the third tap, the last four.	TAP (EDIT) BACK (HOME)

A Advanced: each button opens its pages; press it again for the next. Every page now reaches Gnomad's engines. dashed has nothing to do on them: the synth's card says why, in two short words, as written under it. A knob a sound's own knob already moves says "Knob n has it". SLICER and MOD are not offered on a Gnomad sound.

`ENV`

EnvelopeAttackDecaySustainRelease

Attack Decay Sustain Release: on VA FM GNOME SAMPLER; DRUMS: Drums fade out

Envelope amountsFilterPitchShape

Filter: on VA; not on FM DRUMS GNOME SAMPLER

Pitch: on VA GNOME; not on FM DRUMS SAMPLER

Shape: Not on this sound

offered only where one of its knobs plays

`LFO`

WobbleSpeedWaveStartFade

Speed: on VA FM GNOME; not on DRUMS SAMPLER

Wave: Always a sine

Start: Starts on the note

Fade: No fade here

Wobble amountsPitchFilterShapeVolume

Pitch: on VA GNOME; not on FM DRUMS SAMPLER

Filter Shape: Not on this sound

Volume: on GNOME; not on VA FM DRUMS SAMPLER

offered only where one of its knobs plays

`FX`

EffectsDriveChorusDelayReverb

Drive: No drive per part

DelayTimeRepeatColourMix

Colour: Echo has no tone

ReverbTypeSizeDamping

Type: A plate reverb

Damping: Size sets it

ChorusSpeedDepth

`SCL`

ScaleRootScaleQuantiseShift

Chord keysChordVoicing

`EDIT`

The sound's fourToneMotionEchoSpace

each sound's own names (a sound without its own: these)

The engine's fourCutoffResonanceDetuneSub

above: VA (Synth filter)

FM (FM tone): Depth Grit Ratio Touch

DRUMS (Kit shape): Tone Decay Snap Kick pitch

GNOME (Gnome voice): Vowel Size Breath Syllables

SAMPLER (Sample play): Start End Loop Pitch

VoicesVoicesGlideModePriority

Glide Mode: not heard: the core gets the key only (the card does not say so)

Voice mixOrderDetunePanMute

Detune: not heard: the core gets the key only (the card does not say so)

Pan: Mono: no pan

`GLO`

MixerLevelPanReverbMute

Pan: Mono: no pan

Global settingsTempoSwingClockTuning

SystemUSBSyncRoutingCPU load

`SAVE`

User soundsSlotLoadEraseSave

ProjectsSlotLoadSave

Clear and resetPatternSoundRowSong

SoundsSoundEngineFavouriteList

`ARP`

ArpeggioDirectionDivisionOctavesGate

Arpeggio optionsSwingChanceHoldOrder

`SEQ`

NotesStepNoteKindStyle

a drum part: Step Drum Hit Accent

PatternLengthDivisionSwingGate

PhrasesPatternLoad

SongRowPatternRepeat

Step chanceStepChance

Knob recordingPlayEventsClear

After power off.

Power on brings back the last thing you saved, in the mode you saved it from, stopped. Press PLAY.

Your last save was	The synth starts
in Easy (SAVE or its autosave)	Easy, that song, stopped
in Advanced (SAVE or a rename)	Advanced, that project, stopped
nothing saved yet	the mode you left it in

EEasy saves by itself 4 s after the loop stops (at most every 10 s), and never over a save made in Advanced or by the app.
EThe strip says SAVED only while the music is what the flash holds; otherwise ON SYNTH.
EAll four slots hold other songs: it says FULL and keeps nothing. Make room in Advanced.
EThe very first power-on starts in Easy.

Easy and Advanced.

HOME+ SAVE held 2 s, without a break: the ring fills, then the other mode.
EThe switch changes nothing musical, and never converts a project.
AYou land on the same place: steps on STEP, the loop on PATTERN, the volumes on the mixer, the sound on a sound's page; anything else: Home.
ASave there: SAVE, PROJECT, KNOB 1 the slot, KNOB 4 right, OCT+, a name, OCT+.

Gnomad Synth V1 · the map, 2 of 2

Sound, effects, motion and the loop.

SOUND · FX · MOD
firmware 81727bd · 10 pictures · 57 sounds
5 engines · 5 grooves

E EasyA Advanced knob 1knob 2knob 3knob 4 the four knobs, in their colours SAVE a button

10 pictures, 57 sounds.

Turn ALGORITHM for a picture, PRESETS for the sound inside it. Each sound names its own four knobs, in knob order: knob 1knob 2knob 3knob 4. Under the name: the engine that plays it.

GNOME

4 sounds

GNOMEGNOME

VOWELSIZEVIBRATOSPACE

VOX LEADGNOME

VOWELSMILEVIBRATOSPACE

WHISPERGNOME

VOWELBREATHVIBRATOSPACE

WOW BASSGNOME · oct -1

VOWELGROWLVIBRATOSPACE

ORGAN

6 sounds

ORGANVA

BRIGHTSPEEDECHOSPACE

FULL ORGANVA

BUZZSPEEDECHOSPACE

GOSPELSAMPLER

BRIGHTSPEEDECHOSPACE

JAZZFM

DRIVESPEEDECHOSPACE

ROCK DRIVEFM

DRIVESPEEDECHOSPACE

TINE PIANOFM

BRIGHTDECAYECHOSPACE

BELLS

6 sounds

GLASS BELLFM

SHIMMERDECAYECHOSPACE

PHASE BELLFM · oct +1

SHIMMERDECAYECHOSPACE

RING BELLFM

SHIMMERDECAYECHOSPACE

BELL TREEFM

SHIMMERDECAYECHOSPACE

MARIMBAVA

BRIGHTPUNCHECHOSPACE

KALIMBAFM

SHIMMERDECAYECHOSPACE

LASER

7 sounds

LASERVA

BRIGHTWOBBLEPITCHECHO

PULSEVA

BRIGHTWOBBLEBUZZECHO

8-BIT ARPVA

BRIGHTBUZZDECAYECHO

STEP LEADVA

BRIGHTWOBBLEGROWLECHO

CHIP CHOIRVA

BRIGHTWOBBLESWIRLECHO

ARCADEFM

BRIGHTWOBBLESPEEDECHO

GLITCHFM

BRIGHTWOBBLECHAOSECHO

WHALE

5 sounds

WHALEGNOME · oct -1

VOWELGROWLVIBRATOSPACE

SUB BASSVA · oct -1

PUNCHGROWLSUBDECAY

SQUARE BASSVA · oct -1

PUNCHBUZZSUBDECAY

FM BASSFM · oct -1

PUNCHGROWLDECAYECHO

FAT BASSVA

PUNCHGROWLSUBDECAY

CHOIR

5 sounds

CHOIRGNOME

VOWELMOTIONTAILSPACE

SOFT PADVA

SWIRLMOTIONTAILSPACE

STRINGSVA

SWIRLMOTIONTAILSPACE

SHIMMERFM

SHIMMERMOTIONTAILSPACE

DRONE STRINGVA

SWIRLMOTIONTAILSPACE

CLOUD

5 sounds

CLOUDVA

SWIRLMOTIONTAILSPACE

FROZENFM

SWIRLMOTIONTAILSPACE

WINDVA

COLORMOTIONTAILSPACE

RAINFM

COLORMOTIONTAILSPACE

SOFT FLUTEVA

BREATHVIBRATOTAILSPACE

PIANO

6 sounds

PIANOFM

BRIGHTDECAYECHOSPACE

PLUCKVA

BRIGHTDECAYECHOSPACE

HARPFM

BRIGHTDECAYECHOSPACE

NYLON GUITARFM

BRIGHTDECAYECHOSPACE

SAXFM

BRIGHTGROWLVIBRATOSPACE

BRASSFM

BRIGHTATTACKVIBRATOSPACE

FUNNY

8 sounds

WHOOPEE CUSHIONVA

PITCHSPEEDCHAOSECHO

BIG BURPVA

PITCHSPEEDCHAOSECHO

BIG BOINGVA

PITCHSPEEDCHAOSECHO

SLIDE WHISTLEVA

PITCHSPEEDCHAOSECHO

SAD TROMBONEVA

PITCHSPEEDCHAOSECHO

BOMB DROPVA

PITCHSPEEDCHAOSECHO

DUCK QUACKVA

PITCHSPEEDCHAOSECHO

PEW PEWVA

PITCHSPEEDCHAOSECHO

DRUMS

5 sounds

KITDRUMS

TONEMOTIONECHOSPACE

DRUM MACHINEDRUMS

TONEMOTIONECHOSPACE

HAND DRUMDRUMS

TONEMOTIONECHOSPACE

TOMSDRUMS

TONEMOTIONECHOSPACE

CHOPPED BREAKSAMPLER

BRIGHTDECAYPITCHECHO

Five engines.

Gnomad's own sound core plays every sound. A kit's four knobs are TONEMOTIONECHOSPACE; the other engines' knobs come from the words below, 114 of them a sound's very own across the 53 Easy sounds that are not kits.

VA127 sounds

Analog-style: band-limited saws, squares and pulses, a sub and noise, a filter that can growl.

its knob words

BRIGHTWOBBLEVIBRATOECHOSPACESWIRLWIDTHBUZZPUNCHGROWLSUBDECAYTAILPITCHSPEEDCHAOSBREATHCOLOR

FM127 sounds

Six operators on the msfa FM kernel (Apache-2.0), eight routes and feedback: keys, bells, basses.

its knob words

BRIGHTVIBRATOECHOSPACESWIRLDECAYTAILSHIMMERGROWLDRIVESPEEDPUNCHATTACKCHAOSWOBBLECOLOR

DRUMS32 kits

Sixteen drums a kit on the white keys, always in the same places, eleven more on the black; voices adapted from Emilie Gillet's open-source drum code (MIT).

its sixteen drums

KICKSNARECLAPCLOSED HATOPEN HATLOW TOMMID TOMHIGH TOMRIMCOWBELLCLAVESHAKERCONGABONGORIDECRASH

GNOME101 sounds

The Gnome's voice: three formants over a singing source. It sings a syllable on every key, twelve in a round, breathes and growls.

its knob words

VOWELBREATHTALKVIBRATOGROWLGLIDESWIRLTAILECHOSPACESIZESMILE

SAMPLER29 sounds

Recorded sounds in the synth's flash: pitched across the keys, one-shots, and a break cut into slices.

its knob words

BRIGHTVIBRATOECHOSPACESWIRLDECAYTAILPITCHSPEED

Five grooves.

SELECT to GROOVES and press a key: 1 to 5 are these, 6 to 9 your own four saved loops (MINE). Playing, it starts at the next bar line; the same key again: now. Each loads all four tracks, its drums on the kit it was written for. It never loads over a loop you have not kept without asking. On the LOOP page PRESETS still turns through them.

Groove	Style	Tempo	Loop	Feel	Key	Tracks 1 2 3 4
HEAD NOD	hip-hop	90 BPM	2 bars of 1/16	swing 30%	D minor	GLASS BELL · PIANO · FM BASS · DRUM MACHINE (Boom Bap kit)
FLOOR FILLER	house	124 BPM	1 bar of 1/16	swing 10%	A minor	PLUCK · ORGAN · SQUARE BASS · DRUM MACHINE (House kit)
RAINY DESK	lo-fi study	78 BPM	4 bars of 1/16	swing 40%	C major	SOFT FLUTE · NYLON GUITAR · SUB BASS · DRUM MACHINE (Hush kit)
NIGHT BUS	drum and bass played half-time	170 BPM	2 bars of 1/16	straight	F minor	VOX LEAD · SHIMMER · FAT BASS · DRUM MACHINE (Night Bus kit)
SKY GARDEN	dreamy	100 BPM	8 bars of 1/8	straight	C major	KALIMBA · CHOIR · WHALE · DRUM MACHINE (Pebble kit)

Echo, space and wobble.

Two of every sound's knobs are sends, shared by all four tracks; one is its motion.

ECHO the echo

One second of echo, stored as 8-bit companded codes: the grain is part of its character. The knob is how much of the sound goes in. A DLY sets its time on the song's tempo, its repeats and the mix; the echo has no tone knob.

pool 44,100 echo codes · SPEC/20 D02

SPACE the plate

A plate reverb (the Griesinger and Dattorro tank), adapted from Emilie Gillet's MIT code. The knob is the send; the size is shared.

size law: decay 0.114 + 0.686 s²
RT60 0.97 s at 0 · 1.04 s at 1/4 · 1.31 s at 1/2 · 2.17 s at the default · 5.74 s at full
A REVERB SIZE moves it (90: the default); its damping follows the size

WOBBLE motion, and chorus

Wobble moves the sound itself (its pitch or its tone, at the sound's own rate); VIBRATO, SWIRL and SPEED are its cousins. Every track also has a chorus send; A CHORUS sets its speed and depth, LFO the motion's speed. The motion is a sine from each note's start.

SPEC/20: the ensemble chorus sits behind GC_FX_ENSEMBLE, not in this profile

The loop.

Four tracks, one loop, on the synth's own sequencer: 64 steps a track.

LOOP

BARSSWINGSNAPVOLUME

BARS 1 2 4 8 · SWING 5% a click, to 60% · SNAP on: 1/16, off: 1/32 · VOLUME.

64 steps hold 2 bars at 1/32, 4 at 1/16, 8 at 1/8.

STEPS

BARPENSNAPVOLUME

The white keys are the bar's 16 places: tap one on or off. Hold one and turn: NOTESTRENGTHLENGTHWHEN

NOTE a semitone a click, STRENGTH 4 a click, LENGTH 1 to 16 steps, WHEN ALWAYS OFTEN SOMETIMES RARELY HARDLY.

RECORD

REC arms. Stopped: PLAY counts in 4 3 2 1. Playing: it starts at the next bar 1. The screen says ARMED T1, COUNT-IN 3, RECORDING T1; a blank loop is one bar.

KEEP adds to what is there; REPLACE writes over it. Hold REC 0.4 s to punch in.

Stopped, on the record page: each key writes at the cursor and moves on.

The click

Hold EDIT, turn KNOB 3: right ON, left OFF (the band says CLICK ON). It clicks only while recording or counting in, in both modes; a small metronome by the tempo shows while it does.

Undo

Hold SAVE 0.7 s: the last edit comes off, and the band names it for 2 s: LAST TAKE, STEP EDIT, BARS, SNAP, STEPS (or NOTHING TO UNDO).

On the beat

Hold PLAY 0.4 s: from the top at the next bar line. GLO + PLAY: stop at the bar's end. Either again: now. GLO + keys: a fill. FX + keys: try a sound.

Saving

Tap SAVE: the Gnome says SAVED once the flash holds it. Or stop and wait 4 s: a check mark by the tempo.

A fresh synth.

With nothing saved yet, the four tracks start on these sounds. After your first save, power-on brings back the save instead.

track 1 · VAAcid LeadBRIGHTGROWLPUNCHECHO

track 2 · FMLamplightBRIGHTDECAYECHOSPACE

track 3 · GNOMESing AhVOWELSIZEVIBRATOSPACE

track 4 · DRUMSBig StepTONEMOTIONECHOSPACE