Nucli programs

MNodes comes with 73 programs for the Nucli node, ready to play: effects, instruments and generators, each one a small program you can open, read and change. They come with the Factory content and are in the Nucli section of the Explorer, in the strip at the left.

• Drag one onto the graph for a Nucli node that plays it, or onto a Nucli node to put it in place of what that node plays.
• The Code and Patch tabs on the node show how it is made. Change it, and Save it with a name of your own: the one that came with MNodes stays as it was.
• Each setting below is a row in the Inspector and a pin on the node, which takes a value or a CV, so a knob, an LFO or an envelope can move it.

How they are wired:

• Effects take the sound into In 1 and In 2 (left and right) and give it out of Out 1 and Out 2. For a mono sound, wire it into both inputs.
• Oscillators and Generators have no sound in: they play by themselves out of Out 1 and Out 2.
• Instruments play from MIDI: wire a MIDI In into MIDI To CV, then its Note Number into note, its Gate into gate and its Velocity into velocity.
• wet, where a program has it, is how much of what it does you hear: at 0 you hear only the sound as it came in.

Category	Programs
Resonators	Chord Resonators, Resonator Bank, Scale Resonators
Textures	Granular Cloud, Spectral Blur, Superstretch
Reverbs	Freeze Reverb, Hall Reverb, Plate Reverb, Shimmer Reverb, Small Room, Spring Reverb
Delays	Beat Repeat, Ducking Delay, Multi-Tap Delay, Reverse Delay, Slapback, Tape Echo, Tape Stop, Tempo Echo
Pitch	Harmonizer, Micro Shift, Pitch Shifter, Sub Octave
Modulation	Auto-Pan, Chorus Ensemble, Flanger, Frequency Shifter, Harmonic Tremolo, Phaser, Ring Modulator, Rotary Speaker, Vibrato, Wobble Filter
Filters	Auto-Wah, Cabinet, Comb Filter, DJ Filter, State Variable Filter, Three-Band EQ, Tilt EQ
Distortion	Exciter, Fuzz, Harmonic Saturator, Octave Up, Overdrive, Sample Rate Reducer, Tube Saturation, Vinyl, Wavefolder
Dynamics	Compressor, De-esser, Ducker, Multiband OTT, Noise Gate, Pump, Trance Gate, Transient Shaper
Utility	Stereo Width
Oscillators	Noise Colours, PWM Square, Supersaw
Generators	Ambient Drone, Arpeggiator, Bubbles, Drum Machine, Music Box
Instruments	Bass Synth, FM Keys, Marimba, Organ, Pluck Synth, Soft Pad

Resonators

Whatever comes in rings in a key.

Chord Resonators

Six resonators on a chord that moves on by itself: every few beats the next chord of the key (I, vi, IV, V), its notes over two octaves. A drum loop or a noise rings in a progression.

Setting	Range	Default
root	36 to 72	48	A MIDI note: 48 is C3
mode	0 to 6	0	0 major, 1 dorian, 2 phrygian, 3 lydian, 4 mixolydian, 5 minor, 6 locrian
bpm	40 to 200	100
beats	1 to 32	8	How long each chord lasts
decay	0.1 to 6	1.5	Seconds
wet	0 to 1	0.6

Resonator Bank

Rings at a note and its harmonics, as strings tuned to it would: whatever comes in turns into a tone. A limiter on the rings keeps a note that matches from running away.

Setting	Range	Default
note	24 to 84	48	A MIDI note: 48 is C3
decay	0.05 to 10	1.5	Seconds for a ring to die away
brightness	0 to 1	0.5	How strong the upper harmonics are
odd	0 to 1	0	1: odd harmonics only, a hollow tone
wet	0 to 1	0.6

Scale Resonators

Eight resonators on the notes of a scale: drums, noise or a voice played through ring in that key. chord 0: the scale's eight notes from the root; 1: stacked in thirds, two octaves.

Setting	Range	Default
root	36 to 72	48	A MIDI note: 48 is C3
mode	0 to 6	0	0 major, 1 dorian, 2 phrygian, 3 lydian, 4 mixolydian, 5 minor, 6 locrian
chord	0 to 1	0
decay	0.1 to 8	2	Seconds
brightness	0 to 1	0.6
wet	0 to 1	0.6

Textures

What comes in, turned into slow washes and clouds.

Granular Cloud

A cloud of short pieces of what you play, from the last few seconds, some an octave or a fifth up or down: shimmering, glassy textures that follow what comes in. Six at a time.

Setting	Range	Default
size	0.02 to 0.5	0.12	Seconds per piece
spread	0.05 to 2.5	0.6	How far back the pieces come from, in seconds
pitch	0 to 1	0.4	How many go up or down an octave or a fifth
width	0 to 1	0.8
wet	0 to 1	0.5

Spectral Blur

The sound smeared over time, frequency by frequency: each one fades in and out slowly, a soft, dreamy wash that keeps the notes. The sound as it was is held back to stay with it.

Setting	Range	Default
blur	0 to 0.99	0.85
wet	0 to 1	0.6

Superstretch

What comes in, stretched many times slower without its pitch changing, into a slow, moving wash, as Paulstretch does: four overlapping pieces read from a slow head, each at its own speed, then every frequency's phase scattered. hold stops listening and goes on stretching what is there, round and round.

Setting	Range	Default
stretch	1 to 50	8
size	0.05 to 1	0.3	Seconds: how long each piece is
smear	0 to 1	1	How much the phases are scattered
hold	0 to 1	0
wet	0 to 1	1

Reverbs

Rooms, halls, plates and springs, and reverbs that go on.

Freeze Reverb

A long reverb that can hold: turn hold up and the tail stops fading and stops listening, an endless pad of the moment held. Eight lines mixed into one another evenly.

Setting	Range	Default
hold	0 to 1	0
time	0.5 to 20	3	Seconds for the tail to fall 60 dB, when not held
damping	0 to 0.8	0.3
wet	0 to 1	0.4

Hall Reverb

A large hall: eight delay lines that feed back into one another through one even mix, each a little darker every time round; time is how long the tail takes to fall by 60 dB.

Setting	Range	Default
time	0.3 to 8	2.2	Seconds
size	0.5 to 1.5	1
damping	0 to 0.9	0.4
predelay	0 to 0.1	0.02	Seconds
wet	0 to 1	0.25

Plate Reverb

A plate reverb after Jon Dattorro's design: the sound spread by four allpasses, then round a figure-eight tank that keeps it alive, read at fourteen places for the two sides.

Setting	Range	Default
predelay	0 to 0.2	0.01	Seconds
decay	0 to 0.95	0.6
damping	0 to 0.95	0.4
size	0.5 to 1	1
wet	0 to 1	0.3

Shimmer Reverb

A reverb whose tail rises: each time round, part of it goes up an octave (a phase vocoder, so the octave is in tune), for a shining, organ-like halo above what you play. Four lines mixed into one another evenly.

Setting	Range	Default
decay	0.3 to 0.95	0.85
shimmer	0 to 1	0.5	How much goes up an octave each time round
damping	0 to 0.9	0.3
size	0.5 to 1.5	1
wet	0 to 1	0.4

Small Room

A short, natural room for drums and voices: close walls that answer at once and die away quickly. Four short lines mixed into one another evenly.

Setting	Range	Default
time	0.1 to 2	0.5	Seconds for the room to fall 60 dB
size	0.5 to 2	1
damping	0 to 0.9	0.4
wet	0 to 1	0.25

Spring Reverb

The drip of a spring reverb, as in a guitar amp: the sound sent round short loops whose stretched allpasses bring the highs back before the lows, a chirp each time round.

Setting	Range	Default
decay	0 to 0.92	0.7
drip	0.2 to 0.85	0.6	How far the highs run ahead of the lows
tone	1500 to 8000	4000
wet	0 to 1	0.35

Delays

Echoes, and tricks played with time.

Beat Repeat

Catches a slice of the beat and repeats it while repeat is on: stutters, rolls and glitches. The slice is what plays from the moment repeat goes on, beats long (0.25 a sixteenth, 0.5 an eighth); each repeat may be quieter than the last.

Setting	Range	Default
bpm	40 to 200	120
beats	0.0625 to 1	0.25
repeat	0 to 1	0
decay	0.3 to 1	1	How loud each repeat is against the last

Ducking Delay

An echo that steps back while you play and comes forward in the gaps, so it never clouds what you play.

Setting	Range	Default
time	0.05 to 1.5	0.38
feedback	0 to 0.9	0.45
tone	500 to 12000	4500
duck	0 to 1	0.7	How far the echo steps back
wet	0 to 1	0.45

Multi-Tap Delay

Four echoes in a row, spread across the stereo field, the last one fed back.

Setting	Range	Default
time	0.1 to 2	0.6	When the fourth echo comes
feedback	0 to 0.9	0.3
spread	0 to 1	0.8
wet	0 to 1	0.4

Reverse Delay

The echo comes back reversed: each stretch of time seconds played backwards, two of them overlapping, faded into each other.

Setting	Range	Default
time	0.1 to 1.5	0.5
feedback	0 to 0.8	0.3
wet	0 to 1	0.5

Slapback

One short echo, as on old rock and roll records: a little darker and a little apart.

Setting	Range	Default
time	0.04 to 0.25	0.11
tone	800 to 10000	3000
level	0 to 1	0.45

Tape Echo

An echo from a tape loop: the repeats waver, darken and saturate as they come round.

Setting	Range	Default
time	0.05 to 1.5	0.35
feedback	0 to 0.95	0.45
wow	0 to 1	0.3	How much the tape wavers
tone	500 to 12000	3500
wet	0 to 1	0.3

Tape Stop

The tape slows to a halt while stop is on, its pitch falling with it, and spins back up from where it stopped when stop is off, then joins what is playing now.

Setting	Range	Default
stop	0 to 1	0
time	0.05 to 4	0.8	Seconds to stop, and to start again

Tempo Echo

An echo in time with the music: set the tempo and how many beats apart the repeats are.

Setting	Range	Default
bpm	40 to 240	120
beats	0.125 to 2	0.75	0.75 is a dotted eighth, 0.5 an eighth
feedback	0 to 0.9	0.4
pingpong	0 to 1	1	1: the repeats go from side to side
tone	500 to 16000	5000
wet	0 to 1	0.35

Pitch

The sound moved up or down.

Harmonizer

Two more voices on top of what you play, at the intervals you choose (a major third and a fifth to begin with), one on each side, each found and moved by a phase vocoder. They come a frame (43 ms) late, and the sound as it was with them.

Setting	Range	Default
voice1	-12 to 12	4	Semitones
voice2	-12 to 12	7
level1	0 to 1	0.5
level2	0 to 1	0.5
width	0 to 1	0.6

Micro Shift

Two copies a few cents apart, one on each side and a little late: the wide, thick sound of a voice or a guitar doubled.

Setting	Range	Default
detune	0 to 30	9	Cents
gap	0.002 to 0.03	0.012	Seconds late
wet	0 to 1	0.5

Pitch Shifter

The pitch moved up or down by some semitones, the speed kept, chords and all: each frequency found and moved (a phase vocoder, its phases locked to each note's peak). It plays a frame (43 ms) late, which MNodes makes up for; the sound as it was waits as long, to be mixed in.

Setting	Range	Default
semitones	-24 to 24	12
wet	0 to 1	0.4

Sub Octave

An octave below what you play, as the classic pedals make it: a square wave that flips on every other cycle of the note, at the note's level, smoothed. One note at a time.

Setting	Range	Default
sub	0 to 1	0.7	The octave below
tone	100 to 2000	400
dry	0 to 1	1

Modulation

Sound that moves: chorus, flanger, phaser, tremolo and more.

Auto-Pan

The sound moves from side to side with a slow wave, smooth or sharp.

Setting	Range	Default
rate	0.05 to 10	1
depth	0 to 1	0.8
shape	0 to 1	0	0 smooth, 1 almost square

Chorus Ensemble

The lush chorus of string machines: three voices whose delays swing with a slow and a fast wave, each a third of a turn from the next, spread across the stereo field.

Setting	Range	Default
rate	0.1 to 3	0.6
depth	0 to 1	0.6
shimmer	0 to 1	0.4	The fast wobble
wet	0 to 1	0.6

Flanger

A jet-plane sweep: a copy of the sound a few milliseconds late, the time always moving, fed back.

Setting	Range	Default
rate	0.02 to 5	0.25
depth	0 to 1	0.8
feedback	-0.95 to 0.95	0.6
wet	0 to 1	0.5

Frequency Shifter

Every frequency moved by the same number of hertz. A few hertz mixed with the sound give an endless, rising shimmer; more give metallic, bell-like tones.

Setting	Range	Default
shift	-500 to 500	8	Hertz: above 0 up, below 0 down
wet	0 to 1	0.5

Harmonic Tremolo

The tremolo of old amps: the lows and the highs rise and fall in turn, so the sound swirls instead of only pulsing.

Setting	Range	Default
rate	0.5 to 12	4
depth	0 to 1	0.6
split	200 to 2000	700

Phaser

Sweeping notches, as a phaser pedal: six stages that shift the phase, swept slowly, mixed with the sound.

Setting	Range	Default
rate	0.02 to 5	0.3
depth	0 to 1	0.8
feedback	0 to 0.9	0.5
center	200 to 3000	900
wet	0 to 1	0.5

Ring Modulator

The sound multiplied by a sine: metallic, bell-like tones above and below what you play.

Setting	Range	Default
freq	20 to 5000	440
drift	0 to 1	0	A slow wobble of the sine's pitch
wet	0 to 1	0.7

Rotary Speaker

A rotating speaker cabinet: a horn for the highs and a drum for the lows, spinning, each swirling in pitch and level as it turns towards and away from the two microphones. speed 0 is slow, 1 fast; the horn gets there in a second, the heavier drum takes longer.

Setting	Range	Default
speed	0 to 1	0
drive	0 to 1	0.3
wet	0 to 1	1

Vibrato

The pitch wavers up and down: the sound read from a delay whose time swings back and forth.

Setting	Range	Default
rate	0.5 to 12	5
depth	0 to 1	0.3

Wobble Filter

A low-pass swept in time with the music: the wobble of a bass, or a slow sweep over a pad. beats is how long each sweep lasts: 0.5 an eighth, 0.25 a sixteenth.

Setting	Range	Default
bpm	40 to 200	140
beats	0.0625 to 4	0.5
low	40 to 2000	200	Where it closes
high	500 to 12000	3000	Where it opens
res	0 to 1	0.6
shape	0 to 1	0	0 smooth, 1 a sharp fall

Filters

Filters and EQ, to shape the tone.

Auto-Wah

A filter that opens as you play harder: the louder the sound, the higher it sweeps.

Setting	Range	Default
sensitivity	0 to 1	0.6
low	80 to 1000	300	Where it rests
high	800 to 6000	2500	Where a loud note takes it
res	0 to 1	0.7
wet	0 to 1	1

Cabinet

A guitar speaker cabinet: no deep lows, a bump where the cabinet booms, a dip in the honk, and the fizz rolled off, so a distortion sounds like an amp in a room.

Setting	Range	Default
size	0 to 1	0.5	A small open back to a big closed four by twelve
bright	0 to 1	0.4

Comb Filter

A metallic ring tuned to a note: the sound fed back through a delay one period long.

Setting	Range	Default
pitch	24 to 96	48	A MIDI note: 60 is middle C
feedback	-0.98 to 0.98	0.85	Below 0, an octave lower and hollow
damp	0 to 1	0.3
wet	0 to 1	0.5

DJ Filter

One knob: left of the middle a low-pass closes in, right of it a high-pass opens up.

Setting	Range	Default
filter	-1 to 1	-0.4
res	0 to 1	0.3

State Variable Filter

Low-pass, band-pass and high-pass in one: mode moves from one to the next.

Setting	Range	Default
cutoff	20 to 20000	1200
res	0 to 1	0.4
mode	0 to 2	0	0 low-pass, 1 band-pass, 2 high-pass

Three-Band EQ

Lows, mids and highs up or down, split at lowSplit and highSplit by steep crossovers (Linkwitz-Riley, 24 dB an octave) whose bands add back up to the whole sound.

Setting	Range	Default
low	-15 to 15	0	Decibels
mid	-15 to 15	0
high	-15 to 15	0
lowSplit	50 to 1000	250
highSplit	1000 to 12000	3000

Tilt EQ

One knob between dark and bright: the lows go down as the highs go up, around pivot.

Setting	Range	Default
tilt	-6 to 6	0	Decibels: below 0 darker, above brighter
pivot	200 to 3000	800

Distortion

From warmth to fuzz, folding and lo-fi.

Exciter

Adds sparkle: the highs above freq driven into a soft curve and mixed back in.

Setting	Range	Default
freq	1000 to 10000	3000
drive	1 to 20	6
amount	0 to 1	0.3

Fuzz

A buzzing fuzz: driven hard into clipping, sharper on one side than the other.

Setting	Range	Default
fuzz	6 to 50	30	Decibels
tone	300 to 12000	3000
level	0 to 1	0.5

Harmonic Saturator

Adds the harmonics you choose, in tune with what you play: the second warm, the third rich, the fourth bright. Each is the sound bent by one of Chebyshev's curves.

Setting	Range	Default
second	0 to 1	0.3
third	0 to 1	0.15
fourth	0 to 1	0
drive	0.5 to 4	1

Octave Up

An octave above what you play, from the sound turned all one way, mixed with the sound.

Setting	Range	Default
octave	0 to 1	0.6
tone	500 to 12000	4000

Overdrive

A green-pedal overdrive: the mids pushed into soft diodes, the lows kept clean, then a tone control from dark to bright.

Setting	Range	Default
drive	0 to 1	0.5
tone	0 to 1	0.5
level	0 to 1	0.6

Sample Rate Reducer

Lo-fi: the sound held at a lower sample rate and in fewer steps, aliasing and all.

Setting	Range	Default
rate	300 to 24000	6000	Samples a second
bits	2 to 16	10
wet	0 to 1	1

Tube Saturation

Warm drive: a soft curve that leans to one side, for the even harmonics of a tube.

Setting	Range	Default
drive	0 to 36	12	Decibels
bias	0 to 0.6	0.2	How far it leans
tone	500 to 18000	6000
level	0 to 1	0.6

Vinyl

An old record: the sound narrowed and dulled, wavering a little, with crackle and hiss. age moves all of it at once.

Setting	Range	Default
age	0 to 1	0.5
crackle	0 to 1	0.4
hiss	0 to 1	0.15
wet	0 to 1	1

Wavefolder

The sound folded back on itself each time it reaches the edge: bright, ringing overtones.

Setting	Range	Default
drive	1 to 10	3
shape	-1 to 1	0	Moves the folds off centre
tone	1000 to 18000	9000
wet	0 to 1	1

Dynamics

How loud, and when: compressors, gates, a de-esser.

Compressor

Evens out the level: what goes past threshold is turned down by ratio, smoothly, then brought back up.

Setting	Range	Default
threshold	-60 to 0	-18	Decibels
ratio	1 to 20	4
attack	0.1 to 100	10	Milliseconds
release	10 to 1000	120	Milliseconds
knee	0 to 24	6	Decibels
makeup	0 to 24	3	Decibels

De-esser

Takes the edge off s and t sounds: when the band above freq gets loud, that band alone is turned down, quickly, and let back up.

Setting	Range	Default
freq	3000 to 12000	6000
threshold	-50 to 0	-24	Decibels
amount	0 to 20	8	Decibels at most

Ducker

Turns the sound down while something plays into In 3, such as a kick: the pumping of a sidechain.

Sound in: In 1 and In 2, and In 3 (see above).

Setting	Range	Default
amount	0 to 40	12	Decibels at most
threshold	-60 to 0	-30	Decibels
attack	0.1 to 50	5	Milliseconds
release	20 to 2000	250	Milliseconds

Multiband OTT

Squashes and lifts three bands at once, as the well-known OTT does: what is loud comes down, what is quiet comes up, for a dense, bright, upfront sound. depth blends it in.

Setting	Range	Default
depth	0 to 1	0.5
speed	0.25 to 4	1	Faster or slower than it starts
output	-12 to 12	0	Decibels

Noise Gate

Silences what is quieter than threshold: it opens at once, holds, and closes gently.

Setting	Range	Default
threshold	-80 to 0	-40	Decibels
attack	0.1 to 50	1	Milliseconds
hold	0 to 500	50	Milliseconds
release	5 to 2000	150	Milliseconds
range	-80 to 0	-80	How far down it closes, in decibels

Pump

The pumping of a kick's sidechain without a kick: the sound ducks on every beat and swells back. shape is how soon it comes back up.

Setting	Range	Default
bpm	40 to 200	124
beats	0.25 to 4	1
depth	0 to 1	0.7
shape	0.1 to 1	0.5

Trance Gate

The sound chopped in time with the music: sixteen steps a bar, on or off by one of eight patterns, each edge faded so it never clicks.

Setting	Range	Default
bpm	40 to 200	128
pattern	0 to 7	0
depth	0 to 1	1
smooth	1 to 40	5	Milliseconds at each edge

Transient Shaper

More or less punch, more or less ring, whatever the level: the start of each note is found where a quick follower runs ahead of a slow one.

Setting	Range	Default
attack	-1 to 1	0.3	Below 0 softer starts, above 0 more punch
sustain	-1 to 1	0	Below 0 drier, above 0 more ring

Utility

Small helpers.

Stereo Width

Narrower or wider: the difference between the sides turned down or up, the lows kept in the middle.

Setting	Range	Default
width	0 to 2	1.5	0 mono, 1 as it is, 2 twice as wide
bass	20 to 500	150	Below this, mono

Oscillators

Sounds of their own, with no sound in.

Noise Colours

Noise in three colours, and anything between: white hiss, pink (the same in every octave, like rain) and brown (a low rumble). Two of each, for a wide stereo.

Setting	Range	Default
colour	0 to 2	1	0 white, 1 pink, 2 brown
level	0 to 1	0.2
stereo	0 to 1	1

PWM Square

A square wave whose width swings slowly: the hollow, moving sound of pulse-width modulation. Wire a pitch into freq. Two smoothed saws apart by the width make the pulse.

Setting	Range	Default
freq	20 to 2000	110
width	0.05 to 0.95	0.5
pwm	0 to 1	0.6	How far the width swings
rate	0.05 to 8	0.4
level	0 to 1	0.3

Supersaw

Seven saws slightly out of tune with each other, spread across the stereo field. Wire a pitch into freq; each saw is smoothed where it jumps, so it does not alias.

Setting	Range	Default
freq	20 to 2000	110
detune	0 to 1	0.35
sides	0 to 1	0.7	The six outer saws against the middle one
width	0 to 1	0.8
level	0 to 1	0.25

Generators

Music that plays by itself: no sound in and no notes needed.

Ambient Drone

A slow pad that plays by itself: a four-note chord of the key in soft harmonics, each note wavering a little, gliding to the next chord (I, vi, IV, V) every few seconds over its root. drift moves the key round the circle, a fourth further every four chords.

Setting	Range	Default
root	33 to 57	45	A MIDI note: 45 is A2
mode	0 to 6	1	0 major, 1 dorian, 2 phrygian, 3 lydian, 4 mixolydian, 5 minor, 6 locrian
change	2 to 30	8	Seconds a chord
drift	0 to 1	0	1: the key moves on a fourth every four chords
brightness	0 to 1	0.4
level	0 to 1	0.4

Arpeggiator

Plays the key's chords as an arpeggio by itself: a soft pluck on sixteenths, the chord changing every bar (I, vi, IV, V), and a bass on the root of each chord.

Setting	Range	Default
bpm	40 to 180	110
root	45 to 69	57	A MIDI note: 57 is A3
mode	0 to 6	5	0 major, 1 dorian, 2 phrygian, 3 lydian, 4 mixolydian, 5 minor, 6 locrian
pattern	0 to 2	0	0 up, 1 down, 2 up and down
cutoff	300 to 8000	2500
decay	0.05 to 1.5	0.3	Seconds
level	0 to 1	0.4

Bubbles

Bubbles rising, by themselves: each a short sine that glides up as it fades, tuned to the key, scattered across the stereo field. Four can sound at once.

Setting	Range	Default
rate	0.5 to 20	4	Bubbles a second, on average
size	0 to 1	0.5	Big ones are lower and last longer
rise	0 to 1	0.6	How far each one glides up
root	48 to 96	72	A MIDI note: 72 is C5
mode	0 to 6	3	0 major, 1 dorian, 2 phrygian, 3 lydian, 4 mixolydian, 5 minor, 6 locrian
level	0 to 1	0.4

Drum Machine

A small drum machine that plays by itself: kick, snare and hats on sixteen steps, in four patterns, with swing. Each drum made from scratch: a falling sine, a tone over noise, noise.

Setting	Range	Default
bpm	60 to 180	100
pattern	0 to 3	0	0 basic, 1 four on the floor, 2 broken, 3 half time
swing	0 to 0.5	0.1
kick	0 to 1	0.8
snare	0 to 1	0.6
hats	0 to 1	0.4

Music Box

A music box that plays by itself: a gentle melody on the chord's notes, each a warm bell (a sine bent a little by its octave, and the octave), with a soft bass on each new chord. The chords go I, vi, IV, V, a bar each; density is how many eighths play a note.

Setting	Range	Default
bpm	40 to 160	90
root	48 to 72	60	A MIDI note: 60 is C4
mode	0 to 6	0	0 major, 1 dorian, 2 phrygian, 3 lydian, 4 mixolydian, 5 minor, 6 locrian
density	0 to 1	0.6
decay	0.2 to 5	1.5	Seconds for a note to fade
level	0 to 1	0.4

Instruments

Instruments to play from MIDI.

Bass Synth

A round bass to play: a saw and a square an octave below it through a warm four-pole low-pass whose cutoff falls after each note; glide slides from one note to the next. Wire MIDI To CV's Note Number into note, Gate into gate and Velocity into velocity.

Setting	Range	Default
note	0 to 127	36
gate	0 to 1	0
velocity	0 to 1	0.8
cutoff	50 to 4000	400
envelope	0 to 1	0.6	How far the filter opens at each note
res	0 to 1	0.3
glide	0 to 0.5	0.05	Seconds
level	0 to 1	0.6

FM Keys

Electric piano keys to play: a sine bent by another at its own pitch, harder at the start of each note and softening as it rings, like the tine of an electric piano; warm below. Wire MIDI To CV's Note Number into note, Gate into gate and Velocity into velocity.

Setting	Range	Default
note	0 to 127	60
gate	0 to 1	0
velocity	0 to 1	0.8
brightness	0 to 1	0.5
decay	0.3 to 6	2	Seconds for a held note to fade
level	0 to 1	0.6

Marimba

A marimba bar to play: the note and two partials about four and ten times higher, as marimba bars are tuned, struck by a mallet and dying away, the high ones first. Two bars can ring at once. Wire MIDI To CV's Note Number into note, Gate into gate and Velocity into velocity.

Setting	Range	Default
note	0 to 127	60
gate	0 to 1	0
velocity	0 to 1	0.8
decay	0.2 to 3	1	Seconds for the note
mallet	0 to 1	0.5	A hard mallet brings out the partials
level	0 to 1	0.6

Organ

A drawbar organ to play: sine partials at the organ's footages, set in five groups, keys that speak at once, and a little chorus. Wire MIDI To CV's Note Number into note and Gate into gate.

Setting	Range	Default
note	0 to 127	60
gate	0 to 1	0
sub	0 to 1	0.6	16': an octave below
main	0 to 1	0.8	8': the note
fifth	0 to 1	0.4	5 1/3' and 2 2/3'
octave	0 to 1	0.5	4' and 2'
bright	0 to 1	0.2	1 3/5', 1 1/3' and 1'
chorus	0 to 1	0.4
level	0 to 1	0.5

Pluck Synth

A soft pluck to play: a saw through a low-pass that closes quickly after each note. Wire MIDI To CV's Note Number into note, Gate into gate and Velocity into velocity.

Setting	Range	Default
note	0 to 127	60
gate	0 to 1	0
velocity	0 to 1	0.8
cutoff	200 to 12000	3000	Where the filter opens at each note
decay	0.05 to 3	0.4	Seconds
res	0 to 1	0.3
level	0 to 1	0.6

Soft Pad

A soft pad to play: three saws a little out of tune and a sine an octave below, through a low-pass that moves slowly, fading in as you hold a note and out as you let go. Wire MIDI To CV's Note Number into note, Gate into gate and Velocity into velocity.

Setting	Range	Default
note	0 to 127	60
gate	0 to 1	0
velocity	0 to 1	0.8
attack	0.01 to 4	0.6	Seconds
release	0.05 to 6	1.5	Seconds
cutoff	200 to 8000	1800
detune	0 to 0.5	0.15	Semitones
level	0 to 1	0.5