AISLINGby CU_STE

aisling · Irish ambient for the M-VAVE SMK-37 Elite

by CU_STE · www.stephen8n.com

1.3.1, released. In November 2026 AISLING 1.3.1 was installed on an SMK-37 Elite, played, taken off again with M-VAVE's own firmware, and installed again. The package is in its release; it installs from a computer for now, as the docs say, and they say what was checked and what is still open.

It is for the SMK-37 Elite only (not the SMK-37 Pro), on M-VAVE's firmware V016.

A gold 8-bit harp on green, with 37 beside it

AISLING is a generative instrument for the M-VAVE FM-1, after the harpers and the west of Ireland: a harp's ostinato over a held drone, a second harp drifting against it, a flute far back in the reverb, with surf, wind or rain behind. The SMK-37 Elite has the FM-1's chip, so it can run the same code: the same engine, the same eight pieces, saved the same way, on a 37-key keyboard. Its buttons and knobs take the FM-1's jobs, its middle 27 keys are the FM-1's, its pads play the effects and its faders set the mix.

The launch screen: a green triskele, AISLING, by CU_STE, www.stephen8n.com The main screen: the chord's name among orbiting dots, the five layers' meters, the two harps' lanes PERFORM: Filter, Wet, Energy and Sweep on the knobs

The Elite's screens, from its simulator: the same, pixel for pixel, as the FM-1's.

Where it stands

  1. On a computer. AISLING builds for the Elite from the FM-1's tree, and the FM-1's own build is unchanged to the byte. The Elite's simulator plays all 34 of the FM-1's test scenarios with byte-identical results, and its own: MASTER on a knob, the 37 keys, the battery. The installer and the rescue tool know the Elite's package, and never write the parts of its memory that are the Elite's own.
  2. A backup. A whole copy of an Elite's memory, read twice and compared, before anything was written to it.
  3. The first install. Every button, knob and key checked on the Elite, and the way back to M-VAVE's firmware proven: off, and on again.
  4. The pads and faders. The pads play the sixteen effects, and the faders set the mix.
  5. An hour's run. An hour playing on an Elite with no dropouts.
  6. A release. 1.3.1's package on GitHub, installed from a computer.
  7. The web installer. AISLING put on an Elite from Chrome or Edge, as on the FM-1.
  8. Later. The pitch wheel bends the Lead, the mod wheel opens the filters, the outer white keys extend the Lead's scale.

AISLING is by CU_STE (www.stephen8n.com). Its board layer for the Elite follows M. Geisler's (genkigenki) SMK-37 ports, on the smk37 branches of fm1-amb and fm1-fomni, written again for AISLING; the hardware's facts are from M. Geisler's guide, FM-1 to SMK-37 Pro (CC BY-NC 4.0), cited, not copied. AISLING itself is a fork of NACHTFAHRT by FartyPants, based on DUB-1 by sbegueria, itself based on AMB-1 by Charles Vestal; the platform is Felucca by Leo Kuroshita (Hügelton Instruments). GPL-3.0; LICENSING.md has the rest. M-VAVE, FM-1 and SMK-37 are trademarks of their owners. AISLING is not affiliated with M-VAVE, Hügelton Instruments or the authors of the ports it follows. Its faces are Barlow Semi Condensed and IBM Plex Mono (SIL OFL 1.1).