CHORD LOOM

· click keys to build a chord ·
· click keys, LOAD a pad, stack pads ·
FX — SHARED AIR
PAD INSPECTOR — editing ALL PADS
WHAT EACH CONTROL DOES
THE KEYS

keys — click to add or remove a note (up to 8); every click pings so you hear what you're picking.

hear it — strums the current pick, low to high.

clear — empties the keyboard.

THE PADS

LOAD — burns the keyboard chord onto that pad, fades it in, and points the inspector at it. Loading over a full pad replaces it.

pad button — toggles the pad on and off. Pads stack; each arrives and leaves at its own rise and fall.

voice menu — the pad's instrument, switchable while it sounds.

— deletes the pad; its sound leaves at the pad's fall time.

fade all — every pad breathes out at once, each at its own fall.

THE VOICES

saw choir — detuned saws in unison; the classic warm pad.

glass — pure tones with faint upper partials; the cleanest voice.

soft FM — a slowly stirred FM tone; hollow, faintly metallic.

breath — tuned noise; air shaped to the chord.

organ — a hollow pulse pair; reedy and steady.

far choir — saws sung through vowel filters, one mouth per note; distant voices.

tape strings — a wide, worn unison, darker and wobblier; a string machine left in the sun.

reed — a square wave with the focus tightened; woody, close to a hichiriki.

undertow — FM whose sidebands fall below the note, over a sub octave; the dark one.

weave — two pulses drifting through a slow phaser; air that keeps moving.

PAD INSPECTOR

1–12 — edit one pad alone; the sliders jump to show that pad's settings.

ALL — edits every pad at once, and sets the defaults new pads inherit.

Engine and filter changes lean in over a couple of seconds rather than snapping — the loom moves at its own pace. Rise and fall take hold at the next toggle.

ENVELOPE

rise (in) — how long the pad takes to bloom when toggled on: half a second to a full minute.

fall (out) — the exhale when toggled off, up to ninety seconds. Rise and fall are independent — instant arrivals with minute-long leavings, or the reverse.

ENGINE

loudness — the pad's level in the mix.

memory (fb) — the pad's own tape loop: how much of what it plays is fed back to echo inside it. High settings pile the pad's past onto its present.

warp (loop) — how much the memory loop's tape speed wanders; the remembered copy smears and detunes as it drifts.

detune (¢) — the spread, in cents, between each note's twin oscillators. Zero is pure; higher is thicker and more chorused.

sub — a sine an octave below the lowest note. The pad's keel.

FILTER + LFO

cutoff — where the lowpass filter sits. Low is dark and underwater; high is open and present.

focus (res) — emphasis at the filter's edge; rightward narrows it toward a whistle.

weather — how far the filter wanders on its own: slow, aimless brightening and darkening, like light through moving clouds. At zero the sky holds still.

weather rate — how quickly the weather changes.

breathe — each voice in the chord swells and recedes on its own clock; this sets how deeply.

breathe rate — how quickly the voices swell.

drift (pitch) — slow random pitch wobble, per voice; tape stored badly, a choir not quite holding still.

FX — SHARED AIR (one room for every pad, pings included)

echo time — the tape echo's length. Drag it while sounding and the repeats bend in pitch, like real tape.

echo feed — how much each repeat feeds the next; high settings repeat into the distance.

echo mix — how much echo joins the dry loom. Zero is off.

shimmer — an octave-up ghost of everything, fed only into the verb. The halo.

humidity — how much room you hear around the loom, from dry air to drowned.

darkness — how muffled the room's tail is; high settings swallow the highs.

width — the stereo width of the whole air, from nearly mono to wide open.

master — the room's level; the last hand on the volume.

KEEPING & TAKING

save bank — writes the pads, each pad's private settings, and the fx desk. It restores itself, silent, on launch.

reload bank — brings the saved bank back now; pads return silent, toggle them on.

● record output — captures everything you hear to a downloadable take.