Noise
SAVE: a crackle groove rung on the chord, and the air under it, as of 1.4.0 (build 671d9be). FM-1 firmware.
1 · What it is
Not a bed of hiss: a voice, played like the drums. It plays only while the music does, fading in and out over half a second.
The groove
Hits on a two-bar pattern of semicorcheas (16ths), spread evenly, turned, two nudged a step off, now and then a quiet ghost. Break and Thin phrases: fewer.
Rung
Each hit a short burst that strikes three resonators on the chord's root, third and fifth, low (E1 to Eb2), retuned at each hit; then a band-pass takes the top off.
The air
A quiet hiss under it, and now and then a dry vinyl click.
The duck
It dips on every beat, deeper than the music, and swells between.
Sends
Into the plate, a little into the echo; more while a stab is thrown.
2 · The Noise page SAVE · its part
DensityKNOB 1
How many hits ring in the two bars; heard from the next bar. At 0 the clicks go too (the hiss stays: Air).0 none · 50 eight · 100 sixteen
VaryKNOB 2
How often the groove is drawn anew at a phrase's start, rather than kept (a motif that comes back). Centred; far left Hold: always kept.Hold · 0 as Form's · +50
KNOB 3 · 4
Empty. Its sends: the noise's strip (6).
3 · The characters ALGORITHM, Noise · Noise voice
The same machine set otherwise; its name at the rule's right. Each piece keeps its own.
Vinyl
The crackle groove rung on the chord.
Tape
The hiss through the resonators too: a pad swelling between the beats; fewer hits, longer, darker.
Dust
Dry clicks and bursts, no ringing; more of them, brighter.
Room
On the key's tonic triad, not the chord: long, more air.
Machine
Inharmonic (1 : 1.41 : 2.76): metallic.
4 · The Noise voice page SAVE again
AirKNOB 1
The hiss under it, softer or more.0 none – 100 the loudest
ToneKNOB 2
The band-pass: the rings darker or brighter; the arrangement's sweep moves it too.-50 ~250 Hz · 0 the piece's · +50 ~2 kHz
DecayKNOB 3
How long each hit rings on the chord: a knock to a hum. Longer in a Break.0 ~70 ms – 100 ~1.2 s
WidthKNOB 4
The rings mono to wide: the third further left, the fifth further right.0 mono · 50 the pieces' · 100 wide
5 · The Noise LFO page SAVE a third time
As the chord's (sheet 4): a wave on the bars and a wander, how far Form's Drift says.
DriftKNOB 1
More or less of Form's Drift; far left Still.Still · 0 as Drift · +50 twice
WaveKNOB 2
The share, wander to wave.0 the wander · 50 half each · 100 the wave
RateKNOB 3
How long the wave.1 bar · 2 · 4 · 8 · 16 · 32 bars
TargetKNOB 4
Also ALGORITHM here. Filter: a low-pass on all of it, open at the top of its reach, closing as far as ~1.4 kHz. Tone, Air: their knobs (the Noise voice page's) moving, a quarter of the sweep at Form's Drift 100.Filter · Tone · Air
6 · Level, strip, SAVE held
OCT- / OCT+
On a Noise page: its level, 5 a press; both together, muted or back (its level kept).
The strip
SEL, white 6 (D4) held: Level, Echo, Plate, and a Filter: its high-pass on the rings and the clicks, its low-pass on all of it, the hiss too (sheet 2). No black key: no solo, no throw.
SAVE held
0.5 s, a nudge: Tone, Density, Decay, Air a step. 1.5 s, a shake: another character, every value a big step. (Saving is GLO.)
7 · Around it
WetSEL KNOB 3
Moves the noise too: its dry down and its plate and echo up, or the other way.
LockSEL held
Each phrase keeps its groove; a Density turned waits until Lock is off.
By itself
Its air, tone, clicks and decay drift a little, on the barlines, each piece at its own pace.
The pieces
Each its own character, Density, Air and Tone; Basic: Vinyl, Density 56, Air 66.