Songs and sets
Endless, a song, a set of the pieces and their hand-overs, as of 1.4.0 (build 671d9be). FM-1 firmware.
1 · The three modes GLO x2 · Song mode KNOB 1
"Endless, a song, or a set of the pieces": the same for every piece, saved.
Endless
PLAY: the piece starts full and plays on. The default.
Song
PLAY: the intro, the main, the outro. Then the grid stops, the tails ring on, PLAY goes off.
Set
Songs one after another, from the piece you're on to the eighth (Haze); then DUB-1 rests. PLAY stops it at any time.
Turnedwhile playing
To Song or Set: the main from this phrase. To Endless: the song let go, the parts back in.
2 · The Song page HOME x2 · each piece's own
A phrase (8 bars) a click. In Endless, the song it would be, dimmed.
IntroKNOB 1
"The parts coming in, a phrase a click". None: it starts full.None · 8 – 128 bars
MainKNOB 2
"The piece itself, before the outro". Turned as it plays, the outro moves.32 – 512 bars
OutroKNOB 3
"The parts leaving, then silence". None: it stops at the main's end.None · 8 – 128 bars
KindKNOB 4
"Ambient first, or the kick and the bass": the intro's order (card 7).Ambient · Pulse
Recipes
32, 160, 32 bars: 6:35 (Concrete) to 7:43 (Haze). Ambient: Chamber, Fog, Night Drive, Haze; Pulse the rest.
3 · Transition GLO x2 · KNOB 2 · Set only
Grey in Endless and Song: "Only in Set mode". The set's last piece ends as LP.
LPthe default
"Each song ends; a pause, then the next": PLAY off, the tails ring out, the next intro 6 s on.
Segue
"The next song from the bar after the outro": no stop. The chord's dry out over bars -5 to -1, into the echo; struck at -2, the echo held on it, the plate too. The new tempo from the last bar, the echo gliding to it like tape.
Mix
"Tempos glide; the next pulse under the echo" (card 6).
4 · The outro by hand HOME held + PLAY
Once
The outro from the next phrase, in any mode (Endless: it then stops). In the intro: those not in stay out.
Again
Back to the main, four phrases at least, then the outro as planned (Endless: on as ever).
Not
Resting, or in a hand-over's last bar. Back in a Mix's glide: the piece's own tempo again.
5 · What you see
Song line
3 px under the header: intro main outro, bright as played; white where it is.
TapeALGORITHM
Wound left to right over the song, in the part's colour; brown at END and in Endless.
Counter
The part, its bars left; TIME since PLAY; OF the song's length.
A set
A SET card at each new piece; TIME and the song line start again.
6 · Mix, bar by bar counted back from the outro's end, then the next piece's
The next piece's bass and chord at the soonest: later if its Kind has them later; a piece with Intro None comes in the same way. Drawn for a 32-bar outro, its parts out a bar early (Segue too).
7 · The parts in and out the recipes' 32 bars
Each part at its place, a bar or so either way, in over 2 to 4 bars; the hats with a few hits, more each bar. The chord's filter opens from an octave down, the echo a little wetter; no sections till the main. From 60% of the outro every stab is thrown, the noise into the echo.