TinyGregAudio / Model-TG
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Unofficial firmware additions for the Elektron Model:Cycles (OS 1.13): a full Sampler machine, resampling, beat-repeat with master FX, and more
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# Model-TG **Unofficial firmware additions for the Elektron Model:Cycles (OS 1.13): a full Sampler machine, resampling, beat-repeat with master FX, and more.** Model-TG is built on your computer from your own copy of the stock OS. It patches new code into the firmware, so everything the Cycles already does keeps working. > **Unofficial.** Not made, supported or endorsed by Elektron. You install it > at your own risk: back up first, and see going back to stock. > No firmware images are distributed here or anywhere by this project. > Build your own. ## What it adds - **A Sampler machine**, the seventh machine on any track. It plays samples from the Cycles' internal storage, a different sample per pattern, with p-lockable per-step sample locks. - **Seven playback modes:** One shot, Loop, Slice, Granular, Stretch (time-stretch), Pluck (Karplus-Strong) and Wave (wavetable), each with its own options. - **Slicing:** equal, by transients, or your own markers set in a full-screen slice editor. You can tap them in time, snap them to zero crossings, and set a pattern's trigs to walk the slices with one press. - **Resampling** of a track, the whole output or the computer's USB audio, in mono or stereo, straight onto a track, then saved to internal storage. - **Stereo samples** in every mode. - **Retrig page:** beat-repeat on the tempo grid, plus 12 master FX (drive, crush, rate, pump, filter, ring mod, noise riser, gate, tape stop, vinyl, flanger). - **Attack, Filter and Resonance** added to all the stock machines. - **Slide trigs:** a trig that glides every differing parameter, p-locks included, from the trig before it, on any machine. - **Scale Lock**, **sample upload through Elektron Transfer**, a **System** page with CPU and memory use, and lower CPU use overall. The full, button-by-button guide is in **docs/USER_GUIDE.md**. ## Getting it The easiest way is the **web flasher**: pick your stock OS 1.13 file and it builds Model-TG right there in your browser. Your file never leaves your computer. Install the result like an official OS update. Or build it yourself: [code] Then install `Model-TG.syx` like an official OS update. The tools you need, and how to go back to stock, are in **docs/BUILD.md**. ## Contributing Pull requests for new behaviour are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md to get started, and docs/INTERNALS.md for how the firmware is patched and what is already known about it. ## Credits - elektron-firmware-tool unpacks and repacks the OS. - drumkilla/elektron-model-tweaks provides the latching mute, trig preview and browser scroll tweaks (MIT, vendored in `tweaks/`). ## License MIT for the code and documentation here. Elektron's firmware is not part of this project and is not covered by it. "Elektron" and "Model:Cycles" are trademarks of Elektron Music Machines; they are used here only to say what this works with.