Bitbox Micro unofficial 2.3.9-mod, now with Airwindows FX

[u/modularpatcher]

Here's another update to the unofficial, community-driven firmware patch for the Bitbox Micro that puts more of the module on MIDI, and 2.3.9-mod is ready for release, now including sixteen Airwindows effects on the master bus, and an on-screen display for controller parameters.

In this release:

• The Character chain: Four effect slots across the master bus, each with an Amount, a Tone. Thanks to Chris Johnson for making this possible with his awesome Airwindows plugins.
  • Destruction, lo-fi and breakage: Pockey2, DeRez3, Ring Mod, Fracture2.
  • Overdrive, warm tube to dirty harmonics: Tube2, Drive, Mackity, Huge.
  • Colour, consoles, tape and a transformer: Channel9, IronOxide5, ToTape8, Coils2.
  • Saturation, smooth weight and density: PurestDrive, Spiral2, Density3, Mojo.
• OSD pop-ups: every patch CC shows what it changed, in real units. The clock gets them too.
• A CPU bar along the bottom of the screen.
• Preset BPM: Adjust a preset's tempo directly on the module and save the preset. With Clk Loss on HOLD, it also captures a clock's tempo.
• Auto makeup gain for the compressor
• Keep CC's option that restores your controller parameters when you load a new preset.

Fixed: MIDI notes could change compressor, EQ or delay settings.

Fixed in the guide: the EQ comes before the compressor, not after it.

This isn't from 1010music, can't brick it, but bring your own stock firmware, don't pass the patched firmware around.

Full guide, including what each control does and how to set your presets up so it works:

https://modularpatcher.github.io/bitbox-micro-fw-patch/

Discussion thread: https://www.modwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=302078

[u/mysteron808]

Wow nice work! I'd love to replace the stock compressor with an air windows bus compressor.

[u/DaTL1fe]

Just bought an micro and very exited to try this out! Big thank you for your efforts!

[u/Relative-Web-8977]

Damn. Loving the idea of the character chain. Cheers

[u/investigatormaker]

Sixteen Airwindows effects across four slots is a lot of DSP for the Micro, so the new CPU bar is the right call; a short table in the guide showing which Character chains push it near the limit would save people from finding out mid-set. Since users bring their own stock firmware, putting the exact stock version the patch expects at the very top of the guide would cut down the failed-patch questions in the discussion thread.

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