A Bob Wills generator in your pocket.

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Call settings

Ah-ha voice

Leon’s record is a two-bar steel guitar spotlight. It can retain other instruments; the grain stretching is experimental.

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Key Form

Key changes and song selections join at a bar boundary. Form shapes New Tunes.

FIDDLE SOUND

Fiddle tone · acoustic → synth Acoustic bow

Songs vary bow strokes by note length. Keys start with a held bow.

Then keeps the tone you choose here.

FM-1: ENV → KNOB 3 · FIDDLE

MEET THE BAND · hear each sound

Short sound checks use the current Then → Now setting and player switches.

Choose a fiddle voice while the band plays, or hear a held note while stopped. The saw fiddle has a 60 ms bow attack, tracked high/low filters and delayed vibrato. Now can bring in more analogue colour. The microphone-recorded archtop plays short rolled quarter-note chords; piano adds offbeats; upright walks beneath the lead. Acoustic fiddle blends short strokes into held bows as notes lengthen.

Acoustic / analogue fiddle · picked steel · sampled archtop rhythm guitar · acoustic upright piano and bass · acoustic kick, closed hat and light snare taps · acoustic clarinet.

THEN → NOWDANCE HALL

Upright bass · acoustic rhythm · fiddle and steel

STEEL PLAYERS · written parts

Audition actual transcribed notes, rhythms and chords in printed order. Leon’s complete sixteen-bar Tulsa steel solo and checked Dunn/Murphey excerpts can enter song solos; Spanish Two Step and the accompaniment/fiddle cells are available to audition.

Player and solo

Automatic steel solosSection texture

Seed 301026 Call with Leon solo Bob leads the bandAudio waiting

FM-1 · physical controls

These controls use the same input mapping and 240px display as the firmware. Button legends show the printed label and BB-BOB action. See the screens and button map.

MASTER

Play Bob gives you the calls in pages of sixteen, also played with 1–8 and Q–I. Bring players in and out while the tune rolls. Push Now from the dance hall to the dancefloor: electric guitar, sliding acid bass, synth chords and arpeggios, harder drums and a pumping groove, call a stop-time break, or play a steel lick on the little keyboard. New tune waits for the next bar; Leon plays the complete written feature when it fits, then hands the tune back. Late requests use a shorter original solo.

Bob artwork

Original Rushing Dillo centered above BB-BOB, hat unchanged