Chords
ENV and EDIT: the chord's part, the eight slots, the walk and the key, as of 1.4.0 (build 671d9be). FM-1 firmware.
1 · The Chord page ENV · its part
DensityKNOB 1
Stabs a bar, one to six, each count its own Euclidean figure off the beat.1 one · 3 three · 6 six (a click a count)
ThrowsKNOB 2
How often a stab is thrown into the echo (its dry 6 dB down, the feedback up); more in a Break.0 none, a fill's last still · 50 ~1 in 8 · 100 ~1 in 3
ChangeKNOB 3
How long a chord lasts; it moves at a bar's start.2 · 4 · 8 · 16 · 32 · 64 bars · Hold (EDIT only)
VaryKNOB 4
The stabs' turns, more or less than Form's Vary (sheet 4).Hold · 0 as Form's · +50
2 · The Chords page EDIT, a tap
The eight coming: teal the walk's (degrees: they follow the key), white yours, (HOLDS) a gap (the chord before goes on).
SlotKNOB 1
The slot you're writing, 1–8. The one playing, edited: heard at once.
Keys
Its root, any note. A walk's chord becomes yours, kind and type kept; a gap, a minor chord on that note.
Chord · TypeKNOB 2 · 3
Its kind (Empty: a gap) and its type (8).
PlayKNOB 4
Endless: slot 1 plays; at each change all move up a slot and the walk writes slot 8. Loop: the slots in turn, round after the last that isn't a gap; nothing new written.
ALGORITHM
The walk (5): the teal ones walked again at once.
3 · EDIT tap · held · held on
A tap
The Chords page; again the Walk page; again back. Any page's button leaves.
Held0.5 s
Let go: the next chord, at the next bar (resting: at once; in dub hold: when it ends).
Held on1.5 s
New chords: the walk's slots walked again; yours, the gaps and the one playing kept.
4 · The Walk page EDIT again
WalkKNOB 1
Home, Wander or Free: how far it roams (also ALGORITHM).
ChangeKNOB 2
The Chord page's Change, the same setting.
At the left
The chord, the walk (or LOOP 2/8), the eight slots.
5 · Home, Wander, Free
The walk's next chord, in a seven-note mode. Never the same one again, never one with a diminished fifth.
| Back home | Away, it leans on | |
|---|---|---|
| Home | 2 in 3 | IV, then VII, V and VI |
| Wander | 1 in 3 | IV, VI, V, VII: wider |
| Free | 1 in 7 | all alike |
Wander and Free rarely step straight back. A five-note mode: every degree alike. Every piece starts on Wander.
6 · The Key page HOME, a third time
TempoKNOB 1
Beats a minute; also HOME held + SELECT, any page.40 – 140
RootKNOB 2
The key's root: the scale and the chord move with it.C – B
ModeKNOB 3
The scale (8), loaded whole. A key played adds or takes out a note: Custom.
SwingKNOB 4
The off semicorcheas (16ths) late, everything on them.50% straight – 70%
7 · The walk's voicing
Seven notes
Root, fifth, seventh, tenth (an open seventh); now and then, with Vary, a ninth without its fifth.
Five notes
Stacked in fourths, three notes. The Japanese modes' half-steps never side by side: the upper an octave up.
8 · Kinds, types, modes KNOB 2 · KNOB 3 · Mode
| Chord | Notes |
|---|---|
| Major | 1 3 5 |
| Minor | 1 b3 5 |
| Sus2 | 1 2 5 |
| Sus4 | 1 4 5 |
| Dim | 1 b3 b5 |
| Aug | 1 3 #5 |
| Type | Played, low to high |
|---|---|
| Triad | 1 5 8 10 |
| 6 | 1 5 6 10 |
| 7 | 1 5 b7 10 |
| Maj7 | 1 5 7 10 |
| 9 · 11 | 1 b7 9 10 · 1 b7 10 11 |
| Add9 | 1 5 9 10 |
| Mode | Notes |
|---|---|
| Minor | 1 2 b3 4 5 b6 b7 |
| Major | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |
| Dorian | 1 2 b3 4 5 6 b7 |
| Mixolyd. | 1 2 3 4 5 6 b7 |
| Pent min | 1 b3 4 5 b7 |
| Pent maj | 1 2 3 5 6 |
| Phrygian | 1 b2 b3 4 5 b6 b7 |
| Mode | Notes |
|---|---|
| Lydian | 1 2 3 #4 5 6 7 |
| Hirajosh | 1 2 b3 5 b6 |
| In | 1 b2 4 5 b6 |
| Iwato | 1 b2 4 b5 b7 |
| Yo | 1 2 4 5 6 |
| Insen | 1 b2 4 5 b7 |
| Custom | the keys' own |
8 and 10: the root and the third an octave up. Dim's 7: a diminished seventh. On a sus, a type that lands on its note takes the fifth an octave up instead. The modes in the knob's order. Shown as Fm7, AbM7, C7sus4.