Drumlab TUTORIAL

Hit GLO + HOME for the menu, pick BLUETOOTH and hit OCT+.

On the leader, set SYNC to LEAD. On the others, set it to FOLLOW. OCT+ changes it.

Any of Drumlab, Chipbox and Smileyface can lead. One at a time.

STATUS says SEARCHING while a follower looks, LINKED when it hears the leader, and IN SYNC when it plays along.

Hit PLAY on the leader. The followers start at the next bar and take its tempo.

Change the leader's tempo and they follow. PLAY on the leader stops them all.

No cables and no pairing. Keep them in the same room.

SIDECHAIN: the leader says where its kicks are. The followers duck on each one and swell back, so the bass pumps against the beat. Drumlab sends its first lane.

PATTERNS: when the leader changes pattern, the followers change at the end of their loop. Its swing comes along too.

PUNCH-IN FX: hold one of pads 1 to 8 of the effects layer (the layout that shows when Brothers Link is on) on the leader and the followers do it too: STOP, REPEAT, LPF, HPF, ECHO, REVERB, CRUSH and GATE. Pads 9 to 15 are different on each FM-1 and don't travel.

KEY: Chipbox and Smileyface work out the key of what they play. A following one moves its notes to the leader's key. Drumlab has no notes, so it has no KEY row.

DEMO loads a locked project: D minor, 124 BPM. Load it on each brother, make one the leader, and hit PLAY.

Nothing in it is saved. Open any project to leave it.

MIDI CLOCK in the menu sends or follows the standard MIDI clock over USB. Use it with a DAW or another box.

Plug the FM-1s into your computer and route the leader's MIDI out to each follower's MIDI in. Pass only the clock, start and stop.

Before you install a new firmware, set SYNC to OFF. While the radio runs, the FM-1 can stop answering the installer.