fm1-emu
Emulator for the M-VAVE FM-1 pocket synth: runs its firmwares unchanged in the browser and natively
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GITHUB · launched Oct 12, 2026 · 18 upvotes (top 63%)
- Media & entertainment
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- c64
- chiptune
- emulator
- fm-1
- fm-synthesis
- jit
- +8 more in the details below
Similar launches
See all 1307 similar launches →Could you build this?
No The product requires emulating a proprietary JieLi AC791N dual-core CPU, its peripherals, and audio hardware accurately enough to run unmodified firmware, which is low-level systems and reverse-engineering work.
What it would actually take: A real version needs a cycle-accurate-enough instruction-set emulator for the pi32v2 core, plus models of the chip's timers, interrupts, DAC/audio path, and I/O, compiled to WebAssembly. Expertise in embedded reverse engineering, CPU emulation, and DSP is required, and the firmware binaries and hardware documentation must be obtained and analyzed. Verifying against a physical FM-1 is needed to get timing and sound right.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1307 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #823 of 1308 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 348 days after the earliest competitor.
- clipper-fm1 · github · 2026-10-19 · 52 upvotes · similarity 0.84
- fm1-polly · github · 2026-10-12 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.76
- sloop-fm1 · github · 2026-10-04 · 292 upvotes · similarity 0.76
- harbor · github · 2026-10-20 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- optimist · github · 2026-10-08 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- Felucca · github · 2026-10-02 · 269 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- awesome-fm-1 · github · 2026-10-05 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- jangada · github · 2026-10-04 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.73
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
More details
- External ID
- 1415821668
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- fm1-emu
- Website domain
- github.io
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.37
- All tags
- c64, chiptune, emulator, fm-1, fm-synthesis, jit, m-vave, midi, reverse-engineering, rust, sid, synthesizer, web-audio, webassembly
- AI summary
- browser and native emulator for the m-vave fm-1 synthesizer
- Manually corrected
- No