PX

Quick Reference

PX-1 simple device guide

Straight to the point

Just the menus and what they do.

This version skips the long walkthrough and the shell-command stuff. It is just the button rules, the menu list, and the external controls that matter when the synth is off.

9 menus 4 encoders 1 edit button No terminal required

Controls

What the button and encoders do

These are the only global rules you really need before looking at the menu list.

Main menu navigation

From the Main Menu, turn any encoder to move the highlight. Press the edit button once to open the highlighted menu.

Main Menu: P1-P4 all navigate

Edit mode

Inside Tone, Wave, ADSR, Reverb, Noise, and Harmonist, press the edit button once to enter edit mode. Press it again to stop editing.

Single click = toggle edit

Go home fast

Double-click the edit button to jump back to the Main Menu from almost anywhere. In Write mode, double-click is also the escape gesture.

Double click = Main Menu

Write mode button rules

In Write mode, single click starts or stops recording. Hold the button to preview playback while held. Triple-click starts loop playback. Single click while looping stops the loop.

Write has its own button behavior
Preset naming shortcut

When you add a preset, the key matrix types letters A through W, X works like backspace, and pressing the edit button saves the name.

External

Controls outside the menu system

This section is here instead of terminal commands, since the maintenance flow is supposed to be button-based.

Edit button while off

Use the edit button while the unit is off to trigger a rebuild/recompile instead of doing it from the terminal.

Powered-off maintenance shortcut

What that rebuild does

It stops the current runtime, pulls the latest synth code, rebuilds the loader and main synth, then clears back out when the new build is ready.

Same maintenance flow, no shell steps shown here