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¶
| 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 |
| FOLLOW HOST TRANSPORT | Toggle (AUv3 only; not shown standalone) | 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¶
| 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. |
| MOTOR DEPTH | Always | 0 to 100% | 60% |
| 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. |
MOTOR DEPTH sets how far the vibraphone-style discs close, from barely moving to a pronounced wobble. It has no effect while MOTOR itself is off, and it keeps its value while off, so turning MOTOR back on picks up right where DEPTH was left. The MOTOR on/off chip lives on the resonator panel itself, not in this sheet; see Play and Studio.
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 |
Moving TIME used to glide the read pointer, which sweeps pitch as a side effect. As of 1.1 it crossfades between the old and new delay time instead (a short equal-power fade), so a TIME change no longer bends the pitch of what's repeating. This also governs LOOP mode's tap timing (see Particle modes), since the cloud's looping delay uses the same mechanism as the Delay module. There's no in-app switch for this on iOS yet: the new crossfade behavior is always on.
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 |