There are 23 posts tagged FS1R (this is page 3 of 5).
Nugget gleaned from the Yahoo group:
Power-up while holding ‘UTIL’ & ‘ENTER’. But backup your sounds first, since this procedure will reset all your Voice and Performance memory.
—Summa
The latest OS appears to be 1.20, but nobody seems to know what improvements were made over 1.10. Update is via EPROM and god knows where they could be found now.
I just checked and I’ve got OS 1.20 8)
Factory Reset Procedure for an FS1R – FS1R – Tone Generators/Samplers – Music Production Tools.
WARNING:All user stored data will be deleted. If the current settings and data are not expendable, create a backup before executing the Factory Reset.
Purporting to demonstrate the Formant sequencing abilities of the FS1R (the marketing focus), the vocal performance presets are, to me, quite cheesey. There are definitely some usable sounds here, particlarly for me on the lower octaves.
Some noodling: FS1R_Voice_Perfs.mp3
OK, crap playing, but you get the idea – (over)liberal use of Pitch and mod wheels. Hardly realistic, but some interesting bass tones on the lower octaves.
OK, hands-up – I spoke too soon on the presets. Instead of tackling the myriad other stuff to do, I’ve spent an hour just playing the FS1R. There are 4 banks of 128 presets – 1 User bank, two factory banks, and a special bank for a guitar midi controller.
Here are recordings of this mornings stoned noodlings. This is just going through the first 60 presets in Bank A. Not all useable sounds there, and that cheesey breathy digital formant thing is a wee-bit overdone. Nevertheless, the sounds are beautiful and very expressive. Starting on middle c for most, and using the pitch/mod joystick of the x-station these are some Vocal patches, basses and SFX.
