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Settings reference

Ranges and defaults for every control in the SETTINGS sheet (the gear icon on the performance ribbon) and for Play mode's knobs. The links go to the fuller explanations.

SETTINGS (performance ribbon gear icon)

Opens from both Play and Studio, always in this order.

Root & Scale

See The performance ribbon.

Control Type Values
Root Segmented picker 12 pitch classes
Family Segmented picker Pentatonic, Major & Modes, Minor, Blues & Symmetric
Scale Chip grid 23 scales across the four families; grayed out under a non-12-note tuning

AUTO

See The AUTO player.

Control Type Values Default
AUTO PLAY Toggle on/off off
Mode Segmented picker Turing, Arp, Drift Turing
Direction Segmented picker (Arp only) Up, Down, Up·Down, Random Up
SYNC · tempo Toggle on/off on
RATE (synced) Slider, 16 steps the division ladder, 4/1 down to 1/32 1/4 dotted
RATE (free) Slider, log taper 0.25 to 4 s 0.75 s
BPM Stepper (standalone only; host-driven inside a DAW) 20 to 300
PROB Slider (Arp/Drift only) 0 to 100% 100%
LOOP Slider (Turing only) 0 to 100% 85%
New loop Button (Turing only) reseeds the pattern

Tuning

See Tuning.

Control Type Values Default
Tuning bank Chip grid STANDARD, 12-TET, Just Major, Pythagorean, Bohlen-Pierce, plus any imported .scl STANDARD
REF · A4 Slider (shown once a tuning is active) 415 to 466 Hz 440 Hz
Load .scl… Button → file picker any valid Scala file

Movement

See The AUTO player.

Control Type Values Default
MOVEMENT Toggle on/off off
DEPTH Slider 0 to 100% 25%

Fixed pitch and ridge density

See The performance ribbon.

Control Type Values Default
FIX Toggle chip on/off off
RIDGE DENSITY Chip row COARSE (4 ridges/note), MED (8/note), FINE (16/note) FINE

CHIMES (Resonator panel gear icon)

A second, smaller settings sheet titled CHIMES. It appears only in Studio on compact-width layouts (iPhone). On iPad the same controls sit inline in the Resonator panel, with DRY in the panel header. What it shows depends on the active resonator model:

Control Shown for Values What it does
Scale The sympathetic-string models Oct, 5th, sus4, min, m7, m9, m11, 69, M9, M7, Maj The chord the sympathetic strings are tuned to. The other models don't read it, so it's hidden for them.
VOICING Sympathetic (Quantized) only CLASSIC, BUTLER, SHRUTI Which chord table the quantized model quantizes into. On this model the chord itself is driven by the Harmonics knob (shown as CHORD), and these chips choose the table it reads.
DRY Always on/off A/B parity mode: forces the bare Classic resonator and bypasses the particle cloud, Bloom, and reverb so you hear the resonator alone. Non-destructive; switching it off restores everything as it was.

Play mode knobs

Ten knobs across two cards, all continuous 0 to 100% unless noted. See Your first sound and Play and Studio.

Resonator card

Knob Default Controls
Harmonics 30% Resonator structure
Bright 55% Resonator brightness
Sustain 70% Resonator damping (inverted: higher Sustain, lower damping)
Bloom 46% Feedback bus level
Layer 70% Output level of the second (parallel-sustain) resonator voice; reads "Off" below 2%

Particles

Knob Default Controls
Mix 65% Resonator/particle-cloud balance
Texture 50% Cloud grain size and density together
Motion 0% Per-head cloud speed and stereo spread together
Pitch 0% Per-head pitch spread (unison up to roughly two octaves plus a fifth, depending on setting)
Air 30% Reverb mix

Studio effects panels

The right column on iPad; the FX page on iPhone.

Delay

A stereo delay running before the reverb.

Control Type Values Default
MIX Knob 0 to 100% 0% (silent until raised)
FDBK Knob 0 to 100% 50%
TIME Knob free: milliseconds; synced: musical divisions mid-scale
TONE Knob dark ↔ flat ↔ bright flat
SYNC Chip on/off; TIME reads in divisions of the tempo, not milliseconds off
PING-PONG Chip on/off; repeats alternate left/right off

Bloom

The feedback bus, plus the second resonator voice merged into the same panel.

Control Type Values Default
BLOOM Slider 0 to 100%, routed back into the resonator 46%
LAYER Segmented OFF, TRACK (follows the played note), FIXED (holds the root), FREE (un-quantized sympathetic wash, long ring) TRACK
LEVEL Slider 0 to 100%; the same value as Play's Layer knob the sound's own value