From 7bcb818ca884e00129b7c5b48aa0d822c97ea5df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TexasRADIO <326668450+TexasRADIO@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2026 09:46:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify BB-BOB availability and steel asset provenance --- src/content/firmwares/m-vave-fm-1/bb-bob.yaml | 24 +++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/content/firmwares/m-vave-fm-1/bb-bob.yaml b/src/content/firmwares/m-vave-fm-1/bb-bob.yaml index 4d74fd7..4e9de24 100644 --- a/src/content/firmwares/m-vave-fm-1/bb-bob.yaml +++ b/src/content/firmwares/m-vave-fm-1/bb-bob.yaml @@ -5,13 +5,17 @@ summary: >- a Then to Now control that brings in electric guitar, acid bass and electronic drums. description: >- Rights warning: the FM-1 application compiles in 103 short spoken calls cut from a commercial Bob Wills box set (the - source archive's call index names the discs, tracks and timings) and a two-bar steel guitar clip that the browser - player describes as an estimate from Steel Guitar Rag. The 50 classics are written melody heads of published songs + source archive's call index names the discs, tracks and timings) and a two-bar steel guitar audio asset based on + Steel Guitar Rag. The source describes the steel asset as a source-derived musical estimate and does not establish + that it is a direct excerpt from a commercial master. The 50 classics are written melody heads of published songs such as San Antonio Rose and Faded Love, and the steel solos are transcriptions. The archive's README says the character art, historical recordings, font and music editions carry separate rights and leaves the private collection and media masters out; nothing in the archive or on the site shows a licence from the rights holders. - BB-BOB is built on the BB1 base. A band of fiddle, steel guitar, archtop rhythm guitar, piano, upright bass and light + BB-BOB is a standalone Western swing groovebox for the M-VAVE FM-1. The browser edition is available now and requires + no BB1 installation. The standalone FM-1 installer is still in testing. + + A band of fiddle, steel guitar, archtop rhythm guitar, piano, upright bass and light drums plays one of the classics or a New Tune, for which it generates the melody, changes and form. HOME opens Conduct, with pads for fills, stop-time breaks, a steel feature, a return to the theme and the ending; SEQ plays an instrument from the keys, EDIT opens the Song Book and GLO puts the calls on pads. Turning from Then towards Now swaps in electric @@ -33,15 +37,11 @@ license_notes: >- music editions are outside the GPL; see the rights warning above. The archive holds the code and build inputs and needs the JieLi PI32r3 toolchain and AC79 SDK to build. homepage: https://thebigbeat.app/bb-bob/about/ -distribution: download -requires_stock: BB1 2.0 with BB1 sound library 1.4 install_notes: >- - The Mac installer on the about page needs macOS and Python 3.12. It checks the package hashes, then checks that the - FM-1 runs the exact BB1 2.0 application and sound library 1.4 before writing, so an FM-1 on BB1 2.1 must go back to 2.0 - first. It reads the starting firmware, user data, library and art back twice into a local folder, installs the BB-BOB - application with its timbre and artwork banks and verifies them. Keep USB and Terminal open for the whole session; - pressing Return in Terminal restores the saved banks and BB1 2.0 and checks them against the backup. The identity - file in the source archive still marks the build as not hardware accepted. + Play the browser edition at https://thebigbeat.app/bb-bob/. The Mac ZIP linked from the project page is an attended + listening kit. It checks for and restores an exact BB1 2.0 setup with sound library 1.4 at the end of the session. + That is a condition of the listening kit. Do not downgrade BB1 to try BB-BOB. The identity file in the source archive + still marks the FM-1 build as not hardware accepted. brick_risk: false tags: [synth-engine, sequencer, generative, performance, sampler, emulator] image: @@ -53,4 +53,4 @@ image: versions: - version: 50-song edition (R34) url: https://thebigbeat.app/bb-bob/about/ - notes: First public edition, with 50 classics, New Tune and Play Bob; the source archive and the Mac installer are on the about page, which has no release date. + notes: First public browser edition, with 50 classics, New Tune and Play Bob. The about page links to the source archive and attended Mac listening kit.