Chord voice
ENV again, and again: the stab's sound, its FM, its LFO, its Vary, as of 1.4.0 (build 671d9be). FM-1 firmware.
1 · The voices ALGORITHM, a chord page
Round, a click a voice; matched in level. Each piece keeps its own. (On the Chord LFO page ALGORITHM is its Target.)
Saws
Two saws a voice, 7 cents apart.
KeysFM
An electric piano, brighter as it's struck.
Organ
Four drawbars, longer.
Pad
The saws swelling in, long.
BellFM
FM at 3.5, the clang dying first.
Tonewheel
Drawbars, a percussion and a key click at the strike, a rotary speaker turning.
Noise
Noise and a little saw through the resonant filter.
2 · The Chord voice page ENV again
Around the voice as it is: your turns stay when the voice changes.
CutoffKNOB 1
The low-pass, darker or brighter than the piece's own; each stab opens it further for a moment.-50 · 0 the piece's · +50 (±2.75 octaves)
ResoKNOB 2
The filter's resonance, around the voice's.-50 · 0 · +50
AttackKNOB 3
The strike: 0 the voice's snap, up to a slow swell.0 – 100
DecayKNOB 4
How long each stab rings, times the voice's own (an Organ, a Pad longer).0 ~60 ms – 100 ~1.5 s
3 · The Chord FM page ENV a third time
Four sine operators (sheet 5 draws the algorithms). On a voice not FM the page says so; Algo, Ratio and Feedback grey and resting.
AlgoKNOB 1
Which operators modulate which: the voice's own, the classic eight, or two.Voice · 1 – 8 · 2-op
RatioKNOB 2
Operators 3 and 4's pitch; grey on two operators.-50 half · 0 · +50 twice
FeedbackKNOB 3
Op 4 on itself, from the voice's own: pure to gritty.0 – 100
ColourKNOB 4
Every voice's own: the saws' detune, FM brightness, the organs' upper drawbars, the noise against its saw.-50 · 0 the voice's · +50
4 · The Chord LFO page ENV a fourth time
Two moves at once: a wave, a sine locked to the bars, and a wander, slow and random (a new place every 8 to 32 bars, glided to). How far: Form's Drift.
DriftKNOB 1
More or less of Form's Drift for this LFO; far left Still. The filter about an octave either way at Form's 50 and this 0.Still · 0 as Drift · +50 twice
WaveKNOB 2
The share: wander to wave, the reach the same.0 the wander · 50 half each · 100 the wave
RateKNOB 3
How long the wave, on the bars. A switch.1 bar (a redonda, whole) · 2 · 4 · 8 · 16 · 32 bars
TargetKNOB 4
What it moves (also ALGORITHM). On Reso and Colour as far along their knob (an octave: a 5.5th of the sweep). TO CUTOFF on the rule.Cutoff · Reso · Colour
Picture
Left, what it did (bold as heard, the wave thin white, the wander pink); the dot now; right, where the wave goes. Its reach at the left edge, in its Target's units (Hz for Cutoff).
5 · The moving knob
On its page
The Target's knob (Cutoff or Reso here, Colour on the FM page) shows the LFO: its reach two pale lines either side of the ring, a white dot where it is now.
6 · Vary the Chord page's KNOB 4
A trim on Form's Vary: the chord's amount is Form's plus this, on Vary's scale (sheet 11). Centred: 0 the notch.
0
As Form's Vary (the pieces' own: 0 to -45).
Right
The stab pattern turns more often (every two bars it may move a step, gain or lose a stab); more throws.
Left
Stiller: fewer turns and throws, fewer stabs and bars left out (never more than Form's Vary leaves out).
HOLD
Far left (the word inside the ring): never, whatever Form says. Every stab of the pattern played, no throws but a fill's last.
7 · Its level, its strip OCT · SEL
OCT- / OCT+
On any chord page: its level, 5 a press. Both together: muted, or back.
The strip
SEL, white 1 (F3) held: the chord's Level, Echo, Plate, Filter (sheet 2).
ENV held
0.5 s, a nudge: Attack, Colour, Reso, Decay, Cutoff (an FM voice: its Ratio, Feedback) a step. 1.5 s, a shake: another voice (not Noise), every value a big step.