Modulation and MOVE¶

Modulation moves parameters on their own while you play. Field has six modulation slots, and each slot can drive up to four parameters. MOVE is a separate, simpler kind of motion that belongs to the Morph knob.

Both save with presets, and with your session in a host.

Open the slots¶

There are two ways in:

MOD in the top bar opens the six slots. The dot next to MOD lights when any slot is running. See Screen at a glance.
Hold a dial in the Main or Reverb panel. A sheet titled Modulate and the dial's name opens. Pick a slot and the dial becomes one of that slot's targets. In the standalone app the same sheet has MIDI Learn, and Clear modulation appears once the dial is modulated.

On iPhone, Reverb and Space live in the ADV sheet, where holding a dial does not open the Modulate sheet. Add them to a slot with Add target instead.

The Modulate Size sheet, opened by holding the SIZE dial: a MIDI Learn row, then LFO 1 · 1/4 and Slots 2 to 6 marked empty, with Done at the top right. 16 17 18 19

MIDI Learn. Standalone app only. Arms the dial for the next controller you move. See MIDI and controllers.

A running slot. Tap to add the dial to that slot as a target.

An empty slot. Tap to start that slot as an LFO with this dial as its target.

Done. Closes the sheet.

The six slots¶

MOD shows the slots as a grid of six live previews. An empty slot shows +. An LFO slot shows its waveform with a moving dot, and a Euclid slot shows its pattern with the current step lit. The line under each preview says what it is doing, for example 1/4 → Grain Size or 1.0 Hz → 2 targets.

Tap a slot to edit it. An empty slot opens as an LFO.

The Modulation sheet: a three-by-two grid of slots. Slot 1 shows a sine wave with the line 1/4 → Size under it; the other five slots show a plus sign. Done is at the top right. 1 2 3 4

Slot preview. A running slot shows its waveform or pattern, live. Tap it to edit the slot.

Status line. The rate and what the slot drives, for example 1/4 → Size.

Empty slot. Tap to set it up. It opens as an LFO.

Done. Closes the sheet.

Slot settings¶

The slot editor for Slot 1: a back arrow, a live sine preview with 1/4 → unassigned under it, the Type switch set to LFO, the six Shape buttons, the RATE dial with its SYNC pill, and the POLARITY switch set to BI. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

The Targets section of the slot editor: one target, Size, with its DEPTH dial and a remove button, then an Add target row. 12 13 14 15

Back. Returns to the six slots.

Live preview. The slot's shape, with a dot at the current point.

Type. OFF, LFO or EUCLID. The controls below change to match.

Shape. The LFO waveform. See LFO.

RATE. How fast the slot runs.

SYNC. Locks RATE to note lengths from the tempo.

POLARITY. BI swings both ways around the dial's setting; UNI only adds.

Target. A parameter this slot drives. See Targets.

DEPTH. How far this slot moves this target.

Remove. Takes this target off the slot.

Add target. Picks another parameter to drive, up to four per slot.

Type sets what the slot is: OFF, LFO or EUCLID.

LFO¶

Control	What it does	Range	Default
Shape	The waveform.	Sine, Tri, Saw, Square, Rand, S&H	Sine
RATE	How fast it cycles.	Free: 0.02 Hz to 20 Hz. Synced: 4/1 to 1/64.	Synced, 1/4
SYNC	Locks RATE to note lengths from the tempo.	On or off	On
POLARITY	BI swings either side of where the dial sits. UNI only adds to it.	BI, UNI	BI

The tempo comes from the host. In the standalone app it comes from Tempo in Settings.

EUCLID¶

A Euclidean rhythm spreads a number of hits as evenly as it can across a number of steps. Each hit is a pulse of modulation.

Control	What it does	Default
HITS	How many pulses in the pattern.	4
STEPS	How long the pattern is, 1 to 16 steps.	8
ROTATE	Shifts where the pattern starts.	0
MORPH	0% gives hard on/off pulses. Turn it up to soften each pulse toward a ramp.	0%
RATE and SYNC	How fast the steps go, as for the LFO.	Synced, 1/4

The Pattern row shows the steps as dots, with the hits filled in.

Targets¶

Each slot drives up to four targets. Every target has its own DEPTH dial, from 0 to 100%, starting at 50%. Remove a target with the minus button next to it.

Tap Add target to pick from the full list:

Position, Grain Size, Density, Speed, Jitter, Spread, Pitch, Reverb, Reverb Space, Filter Cutoff, Filter Resonance, Pitch Random, Reverse.

Position and Pitch have no dial to hold, so Add target is the only way to reach them. Position moves the read point through the sample. Pitch moves the transposition.

More than one slot can drive the same parameter, and their movements add together.

Seeing what moves¶

A gold ring on a dial orbits at the value the modulation is giving it right now.
A gold ghost puck on an XY pad shows where modulation is moving that pad's axes. See The XY pads.

The other rings on a dial mean something else. The faint gold arc is how far Morph is pushing the dial. A cyan ring is host automation. An amber ring that pulses is MIDI Learn waiting for a controller.

MOVE¶

MOVE makes Morph drift on its own. Hold the Morph knob to open MORPH MOVE.

The MORPH MOVE sheet: the MOVE dial with its SYNC pill, a line of explanation, and Done at the top right. 20 21 22

MOVE. How fast Morph drifts. Full left is off.

SYNC. Locks MOVE to note lengths from the tempo.

Done. Closes the sheet.

Control	What it does	Range	Default
MOVE	How fast Morph's destinations drift. Full left is off.	Off, then 0.02 Hz to 0.5 Hz	Off
SYNC	Locks MOVE to note lengths from the tempo.	On or off	Off

Each of Morph's destinations drifts on its own phase, so the sound evolves instead of pulsing in step. A dot next to the Morph knob shows MOVE is running.

The Morph knob sets how far MOVE can go. Each destination breathes between none of Morph's push and the full amount the knob is set to. With Morph at zero there is nothing to move, so turn Morph up first. Because the destinations spend time below the top, MOVE on sounds about half as strong as the same Morph setting with MOVE off. See Morph.

In Stretch, Morph is dimmed, and MOVE has no effect.