Model Cycles Mods
Demo area for Glycinate/100Demons.
/// All mods are free for use in other firmware ///
Try Modded Cycles or Supermodel.
What do you want to install?
Your machine
To put the official firmware back, load your model-cycles_OS1.13.syx in step 2 and flash it with no engines ticked: the page sends it unchanged.
This flasher is for the Model:Cycles only — the Model:Samples OS and the Cycles ↔ Samples cross-flash aren't included here.
Load your official OS file
Don't have it? Download Model:Cycles OS 1.13 from elektron.se, then unzip it. It stays on your computer.
Connect your Model:Cycles over USB
Info
- Connect the Model:Cycles to the computer with a USB cable and turn it on normally. Stay on its usual screen: no menu to open.
- Close Elektron Transfer and any music software that uses the Model:Cycles: they hold its USB port.
- Allow MIDI access below: the page finds the Model:Cycles and shows its OS version.
- Connect the Model:Cycles to the computer with a USB cable and turn it on normally.
- On the Model:Cycles, press SETTINGS, open CONFIG › UPGRADE and confirm with YES. It now waits for the firmware.
- Allow MIDI access below: the port named “Model:Cycles” is selected automatically.
Flash
Download the .syx … and send it with Elektron Transfer, or over MIDI with a DAW.
Something went wrong?
- Nothing happens on the Model:Cycles screen
- Fast method: step 3 must say that the Model:Cycles was found. Classic method: check that CONFIG › UPGRADE is open and waiting. Either way, pick the port named “Model:Cycles” in step 3 and close Elektron Transfer, Overbridge and your music software (on Windows they lock the port), then try again.
- The transfer stops, or the Model:Cycles shows an error
- Turn the Model:Cycles off and on and flash again. With the classic method, open CONFIG › UPGRADE again and set Advanced › Send speed margin to 2.0 first.
- No MIDI port in the list
- Connect the Model:Cycles with a USB cable that carries data (some cables only charge), turn it on, then click Refresh. Some systems only show a new device after the browser is restarted.
- The fast method doesn't find the Model:Cycles, or stops
- Turn the Model:Cycles on normally (not in CONFIG › UPGRADE), close Elektron Transfer, then click Refresh in step 3. If it still fails, choose Classic in step 3: slower, but it doesn't need answers from the machine. Elektron Transfer works too: download the .syx (step 4) and drop it onto Transfer's window.
- The update over USB is refused, or the Model:Cycles doesn't start any more
- Recovery goes through the startup menu, which only listens to the MIDI IN (it needs a MIDI interface).
Advanced
Want to make your own firmware?
- Install the desktop app OpenCode.
- Sign up for Deepseek Platform.
- Add a few dollars to your account.
- Plug your Deepseek API into OpenCode.
- Ask it to build anything you want.
- Export to sysex.
- Upload with Elektron Transfer.
Credits
This flasher stands on the shoulders of these projects, none of which includes firmware:
Built on the Modded-Cycles toolchain (18nelli18 and contributors, MIT) and model27 (durchgemacht, MIT); the low-level code (mtlib) is drumkilla's (MIT). Third-party code keeps its own license; Elektron's firmware is not covered.