Factory presets¶
Bent Spool ships with 48 factory presets: 10 TREM, 15 REPEAT, 15 LOOPS and 8 FUZZ TREM. In a host's preset list and in the stepper they appear with the section and number in front of the name, such as TREM - 01 Quarter Sine. The descriptions below are the ones shown in the iPhone and iPad preset browser.
On iPhone and iPad, the ten TREM presets are free. The other 38 need the unlock. On desktop all 48 are available.
The FUZZ TREM presets are not a fourth mode. They are TREM with the FUZZ voice switched on. Three LOOPS presets also use FUZZ, as marked below.
Two presets, REPEAT - 15 Gated Sixteenths and FUZZ TREM - 04 Gated Stabs, use the input gate. The gate has no control on the panel. See Parameters.
TREM¶
| Preset | Description |
|---|---|
| TREM - 01 Quarter Sine | Quarter-note sine pulse at full depth, nothing else on. |
| TREM - 02 Triangle Current | Even triangle swells with the two channels sixty degrees apart. |
| TREM - 03 Pluck Steps | Rising sawtooth on eighth notes: a hard attack, then a curved fade. |
| TREM - 04 Square Cut | Eighth-note square gate, fully wet, straight on and off. |
| TREM - 05 Left Right Chop | Square pulses that alternate between the left and right channels. |
| TREM - 06 Slow Bloom | Long, shallow sine swells with a little tape wear underneath. |
| TREM - 07 Tripwire Pulse | Fast saw-to-square pulse with a touch of CHAOS to unsettle it. |
| TREM - 08 Velvet Wobble | Unsynced, gentle tremolo with slight pitch drift and some wear. |
| TREM - 09 Distorted Guillotine | Eighth-note square chop through the OD voice with a little sputter. |
| TREM - 10 Held Voltage | Full CHAOS: pulses that hold, subdivide and stall, with mild pitch wobble. |
REPEAT¶
| Preset | Description |
|---|---|
| REPEAT - 01 Half Note Pulse | Sixteen half-note repeats with heavy dirt and octave jumps from CHAOS. |
| REPEAT - 02 Broken 32nd repeats | Driven, worn repeats at a fast spacing with random octave jumps. |
| REPEAT - 03 Octave Repeats | Sixteen clean octave-up repeats on a short spacing. |
| REPEAT - 04 Unison Afterimage | Four quarter-note copies at unison, decaying, no regeneration. |
| REPEAT - 05 Sixty Fourth Spark | Eight sixty-fourth-note stutters that die out fast. |
| REPEAT - 06 Low Slung Echo | Six eighth-note repeats pitched an octave down. |
| REPEAT - 07 Fifth Staircase | Dotted-eighth repeats a fifth up, climbing then fading. |
| REPEAT - 08 Double Octave Glass | Two octaves up, eight short copies, a brittle tail. |
| REPEAT - 09 Crystal Feedback | Octave-up copies with FEEDBACK regenerating a rising shimmer. |
| REPEAT - 10 Sixty Four Ghosts | Sixty-four unison copies with a slow decay and a little wear. |
| REPEAT - 11 Sixteenth Ladder | Sixteenth-note repeats a fifth up, six steps and gone. |
| REPEAT - 12 Sub Drop | Slow octave-down copies with FEEDBACK dragging a dark tail behind them. |
| REPEAT - 13 Octave Roulette | Sixteenth-note repeats where CHAOS throws octaves, sometimes two, at random. |
| REPEAT - 14 Free Slapback | One unsynced slap and its shadow, lightly driven. |
| REPEAT - 15 Gated Sixteenths | GATE keeps only the hits, then eight mono sixteenth-note copies follow each one. |
LOOPS¶
| Preset | Description |
|---|---|
| LOOPS - 01 Micro Loops | Three short voices scattering recent audio across pitch and direction. |
| LOOPS - 02 Drunk Accompany (FUZZ voice) | One fuzzed voice at full CHAOS, unsynced and long, wandering off on its own. |
| LOOPS - 03 Sonic Fuzz (FUZZ voice) | Three fuzzed voices with a worn, gritty spread. |
| LOOPS - 04 Sonic Adolescents (FUZZ voice) | Six voices, heavy fuzz, full CHAOS, fully wet: the loud one. |
| LOOPS - 05 Box Full of Gremlins | Six voices at full SHAPE and CHAOS over a quarter-note length, lightly driven. |
| LOOPS - 06 Single Thread | One mono voice, no octaves or reversal, reading close behind you. |
| LOOPS - 07 Reverse Duet | Two voices playing backwards at the same pitch, high CHAOS. |
| LOOPS - 08 Four Part Drift | Four voices drifting across pitch, direction and stereo. |
| LOOPS - 09 Deep Memory | Six long, unsynced voices reading the whole recorded history. |
| LOOPS - 10 Classic Constellation | Five voices in CLASSIC motion with the original seeded movement. |
| LOOPS - 11 Low Shadow | Two slow voices shadowing you an octave away. |
| LOOPS - 12 Stereo Scatter | Six tiny stereo fragments thrown across the field, no pitch change. |
| LOOPS - 13 Classic Upheaval | Three voices in CLASSIC motion with CHAOS forcing reversals and octave flips. |
| LOOPS - 14 Worn Tape Loop | One bar of what you just played, back through a tired cassette. |
| LOOPS - 15 Swarm | Six voices moving as fast as the LFO allows, swarming across pitch and space. |
FUZZ TREM¶
| Preset | Description |
|---|---|
| FUZZ TREM - 01 Sine Swell | Quarter-note sine swells over a fuzzed input. |
| FUZZ TREM - 02 Sputter Square | Eighth-note square chop that sputters and skips as the fuzz decays. |
| FUZZ TREM - 03 Octave Saw | Sixteenth-note saw ramps with the fuzz's octave content on top. |
| FUZZ TREM - 04 Gated Stabs | GATE removes the quiet parts, then quarter-note square stabs of fuzz. |
| FUZZ TREM - 05 Ping Pong | Fuzzed square pulses bouncing between the left and right channels. |
| FUZZ TREM - 06 Slow Tide | Half-note triangle swells on a lightly fuzzed, worn signal. |
| FUZZ TREM - 07 Broken Machine | Heavy fuzz through a pulse that holds, stalls and subdivides on its own. |
| FUZZ TREM - 08 Free Throb | Unsynced fuzz throb around four cycles a second with a little drift. |