The Firmware Hub · Tools · OberVave

Back up OberVave

Your 99 programs, your patterns and OberVave's settings in one file on your computer. Try other firmwares, come back to OberVave, put everything back. Chrome or Edge, over USB, on the FM-1 and the SMK-37.

1Connect

Plug in the FM-1 (or SMK-37) with OberVave 3.5 or newer running, close other music apps and editors that use MIDI, then connect. The browser asks for MIDI access with SysEx: allow it.

NOT CONNECTED

2Download a backup

Reads OberVave's own storage from the flash (about 170 KB, a few seconds) and saves it as an .obvbak file. OberVave plays on while it reads.

3Restore

Choose a backup file: it is written back exactly as it was, checked, then OberVave starts again with it. What OberVave has now is replaced – download a backup of it first if you may want it.

Good to know

  • A restore stops the sound and the sequencer; the screen says RESTORE. Do not unplug until OberVave has started again.
  • Only OberVave's own storage is read and written – never the firmware, the calibration or anything else on the device.
  • A backup goes back on the same kind of device (an FM-1's on an FM-1, an SMK-37's on an SMK-37). The file is checked before anything is written; a damaged file is refused.
  • A backup from an older OberVave goes on a newer one: OberVave reads its older programs and patterns as it always has.
  • Private: the backup is read over USB and saved on your computer; nothing of it goes to our server.
  • Thanks to dmochen for asking for it (#15).