COLLAGE glossary of functions

This page is the reference. It names every control on every surface of the COLLAGE window, every parameter a host can automate, every control source a route can read, and the words the other guides use. The parameter and source tables are generated from the plugin’s own schema and registry, so they cannot drift from the build they describe.

If you are new to COLLAGE, start with the Getting Started guide, then work through the Tutorials. For how the pieces fit together, read the Technical Guide.

The surfaces

COLLAGE’s window is five bands. From the top: the head band, the signal corridor, the five station cards, the control apron, and the MOD band. Three surfaces fold out over the corridor when asked: the MORPH · VECTOR panel, the CONTROL ROUTES inspector and the LIBRARY.

The COLLAGE window with its five bands numbered

1 · Head band

Left half of the head band Right half of the head band

#	Control	What it does
1	COLLAGE	The logotype, cut into the head band. A session written by an earlier renderer shows a LEGACY marker beside the preset name.
2	Preset console	The two chevrons step through the presets on disk. Pressing the name field opens the LIBRARY. A fresh insert reads INIT.
3	Undo lens	Steps the patch back one move. Shift-click redoes; when only a redo is possible the face turns into the redo arrow.
4	IN	Input trim, ±24 dB, before the rack.
5	MIX	The master dry/wet blend, against a latency-matched dry signal.
6	HP	Output high-pass, 12 dB per octave, 20 Hz to 2 kHz, or OFF at the bottom of its travel. The frequency shown is the filter’s −6 dB point; the −3 dB corner is 1.55 times higher.
7	LP	Output low-pass, 12 dB per octave, 800 Hz to 20 kHz, or OFF at the top of its travel. The frequency shown is the filter’s −6 dB point; the −3 dB corner is at 0.64 times that frequency.
8	OUT	Output trim, ±24 dB, before the soft ceiling.
9	LOAD	The engine’s processing load. The CEIL lamp beside it lights while the soft ceiling is reducing gain.
10	LATENCY	The latency the plugin reports to the host, in samples and milliseconds. It changes only with the RESOLUTION tier.
11	RATE	The session’s sample rate.
12	ROUTES	How many modulation routes the patch carries.

The five knobs sit in signal order: IN feeds the rack; the rack’s output meets MIX, then HP, LP, OUT and the ceiling.

2 · Signal corridor

The signal corridor

#	Element	What it does
1	SIGNAL CORRIDOR · LIVE	The caption. LIVE means telemetry is arriving from the engine; IDLE means nothing has been published yet.
2	ROUTES	Opens the CONTROL ROUTES inspector over the corridor. A latch: it never disables modulation.
3	MORPH	Opens the MORPH · VECTOR fold-out over the right-hand column. The latch stays lit while the panel is open.
4	IN	The input end of the stream.
5	Focused pane	The focused station’s transformation drawn from live telemetry: SPECTRAL’s in and out spectra with displacement arcs, GRANULAR’s grain field, MANGLE’s and PLEAT’s transfer curves, TIME’s slice ladder. A powered-off station draws only what its settings determine and offers a POWER button.
6	Activity rows	One line per unfocused station: an activity bar and a one-line readout, or OFF · NOT TOUCHING THE STREAM.
7	OUT	The output end of the stream.

The corridor is a display. Selection, power and order are set on the station cards below it.

3 · Station cards

The five station cards

#	Element	What it does
1	Number · sigil · name	The station’s position in the rack (1 to 5), its letter and its name. The letter and the number carry the identity even without colour.
2	PWR	Powers the station on or off. Power is a 10 ms fade on a station that keeps running, so it never clicks.
3	Wet bar	Shows the station’s WET amount. Set it with the WET knob in the apron.
4	Selection outline	The red outline and a red fade inside the card mark the station the apron is showing, whether its power is on or off.
5	Level readout	IN and OUT: the station’s measured input and output level. An output peak above unity is highlighted, so a stage that builds up gain stands out.

Click a card to focus it. Drag a card to reorder the rack. While dragging, a red marker shows where the card will land. With SPLIT on, each card also shows a LANE chip that moves the station between lane A and lane B.

4 · Control apron

Left half of the control apron Right half of the control apron

#	Element	What it does
1	Station block	The focused station’s name and blurb, its PWR and SOLO latches, and its headline mode where it has one: SPECTRAL’s FREEZE (RUN / HOLD), GRANULAR’s SYNC (OFF / GRID) and TIME’s SHAPE GUARD (OFF / ON). SOLO auditions the station alone; it is never saved.
2	WET · LVL	WET is the focused station’s blend against its own input. The LVL strip beneath it is the station’s output level, −24 to +12 dB: a gain on the processed signal before the blend, which never drives the effect harder. Both live in the same place for all five stations.
3	The well	The seated group’s knobs, two or three at a time, with their values above and the group’s name below.
4	Group ladder	The station’s named groups. Press a key to seat that group in the well. Every station’s first group is its performance group.
5	SPLIT · CROSS	SPLIT runs the rack as two parallel lanes; CROSS blends lane A against lane B. The CROSS column is dim until SPLIT is on.
6	Macros	THROTTLE, COLOR, GRAIN and DRIFT: four knobs that presets route to many controls at once.
7	RANDOM · INIT	RANDOM randomises the focused station’s controls. INIT puts the focused station’s WET, mode segment and knobs back to their defaults and removes every modulation route in the patch; the station’s power and its LVL output level are left as they are. Both are ordinary undoable edits.

The groups, station by station:

Station	Groups
SPECTRAL	REGION (PARTS · FOCUS · DIVERGE) · MOVE (SHIFT · SCATTER · TRANS) · TONE (TILT · BLUR · SMEAR) · FREEZE (TRACK · RATE)
GRANULAR	CLOUD (SIZE · DENSITY · POSITION) · PITCH (PITCH · SCATTER · SCALE) · FIELD (SPRAY · SPREAD · JITTER) · WINDOW (SHAPE · TILT · TRANS) · MOTION (REVERSE · HOLD · DIV)
MANGLE	DRIVE (DRIVE · STAGES · SPLIT) · ARM + (SHAPE · ALG +) · ARM − (SHAPE − · ALG −)
TIME	READ (RATE · POS · SCRUB) · SPLICE (SHAPE · WEAVE · WINDOW) · PITCH (PITCH · TIMBRE · TRACK) · GRID (SYNC · DIV · SWING) · REPEAT (REPEAT · REP DIV)
PLEAT	DRIVE (DRIVE · STAGES · SPLIT) · ARM + (FOLD · ALG +) · ARM − (FOLD − · ALG − · WIDE)

5 · MOD band

LFO 1 and ENV 1 in the MOD band

#	Element	What it does
1	Drag chip	The slot’s name. Drag it onto any knob to route the source there.
2	Scope	The LFO’s real waveform with a dot at its live phase. With CUSTOM selected, the sixteen points become drag handles.
3	HZ / RATE · STR / DOT / TRI	The clock (free Hz or a tempo-synced division) and the synced feel (straight, dotted, triplet).
4	RATE	The division, or the free rate in Hz.
5	Waveform	SINE, TRI, SAW, SQR, four drawn contours, or CUSTOM.
6	SMOOTH	Smoothing on the output, up to 250 ms.
7	ENV chip	The envelope’s drag chip.
8	GATE / TRIG / FOLLOW	The envelope’s mode.
9	ATK · HOLD · DEC · SUS · REL	The AHDSR values. The scope’s nodes drag the same values. In GATE and TRIG they are segment lengths; in FOLLOW, ATK and REL are time constants (63 % of the way to the level in that time).

LFO 2 and ENV 2 repeat the same layout. The envelope’s source tap, gate threshold, tracking and sensitivity are held in the session and reachable from the host’s parameter list; the panel shows AHDSR and MODE.

MORPH · VECTOR fold-out

The MORPH page

#	Element	What it does
1	MORPH / VECTOR	The panel’s two pages. The pad is the same on both; the rows beneath it change.
2	Pad	The morph position as a crosshair, the vector’s points and playhead, and the four corners A to D. Drag the crosshair to move the morph by hand; click empty space to place a vector point; click a point to select it and double-click to deselect it; drag a point to move it; alt-click or right-click a point to remove it.
3	Scene chips	A to D. SET marks a stored scene; the selected chip is the one the verbs act on.
4	MORPH DEPTH	How far the scene blend pulls the controls away from the stored patch.
5	STORE · RECALL · CLEAR	STORE writes the whole current patch into the selected scene (REPLACE when it is already set). RECALL moves the morph onto the selected scene at full depth. CLEAR empties it.

The VECTOR page

#	Element	What it does
1	MORPH / VECTOR	The page tabs.
2	Pad	The path’s points and the travelling playhead. Two points make a path; below that the axes are inert and the panel says so.
3	X · Y · PROG · LINK	Three drag chips for the playhead’s position and progress, and LINK, which authors two ordinary routes (vector X to morph X, vector Y to morph Y) so the path drives the scenes.
4	CLOCK · FEEL · MULT	HZ or RATE; straight, dotted or triplet; and a ×1 to ×16 multiplier.
5	RATE · MODE · VEC	The traversal rate, the travel mode (LOOP, PING, ONCE, SCAT) and the travel depth.

LIBRARY

The LIBRARY fold-out

#	Element	What it does
1	Banks	SYSTEM, the factory banks found on disk, and USER for your own presets.
2	Presets	The selected bank’s presets. SYSTEM holds one row, INIT: the patch a fresh insert opens on. Click a row to select it, LOAD to load it.
3	NAME · SAVE · SAVE OVER	SAVE writes the current patch to your preset folder under the name; SAVE OVER replaces the preset you loaded.
4	LOAD · IMPORT · REVEAL · RESET BLANK · RESCAN · CLOSE	IMPORT copies a .clgpreset file into your folder and loads it. REVEAL opens the folder. RESET BLANK returns the whole instrument to its neutral state: every control at its default, no routes, canonical order, every station off but SPECTRAL. RESCAN re-reads the folder.
5	DETAIL strip	What loading the selected row would do. After you press a verb — LOAD, SAVE, SAVE OVER, IMPORT, RESCAN, RESET BLANK — the strip carries that verb’s result instead, in amber, until you move the selection.

Presets live in Documents / COLLAGE Presets: factory banks under Factory/<bank>/, your saves in the folder itself. Loading a preset written by an earlier COLLAGE moves the instance onto that version’s frozen renderer and marks the preset field LEGACY.

CONTROL ROUTES inspector

The CONTROL ROUTES inspector

#	Element	What it does
1	Route list	Every route in the patch as SOURCE > destination. Click a row to select it.
2	SOURCE · TO	Pickers for the route’s source (any family) and destination (any routable control, macro or trim).
3	Combine · polarity · curve	ADD, MULTIPLY, REPLACE, MIN, MAX or SPAN; BIPOLAR, POSITIVE, NEGATIVE or INVERT; LINEAR, EXP, LOG or SMOOTH.
4	DEPTH · MIN · MAX · SLEW · REST	Drag to change; Shift makes fine changes. REST reads AUTO when the source’s own neutral value is used.
5	Status line	Whether the selected route is ACTIVE, and if not, why: a bypassed station, a macro with no audible target, an unavailable source.
6	ON · NEW · ADD · REMOVE · CLOSE	ON bypasses or re-enables the selected route. NEW prepares a fresh route from the pickers; ADD commits it.

Guided tour

A TOUR tab on the window’s right edge slides out a shade listing thirteen stops: the preset console, UNDO, the master path, the instrument cluster, the signal corridor, ROUTES, MORPH, the station cards, the station controls, SPLIT and CROSS, the macros, RANDOM and INIT, and the MOD band. Pick a stop and the rest of the window dims while that region is outlined, with what it does and one thing to try. START TOUR, NEXT and BACK walk the stops in order; FINISH returns to the list. The shade moves to the left edge when the stop it shows sits on the right, the window stays playable while it is open, and the tour takes no keys. It is view state only: never saved in a preset, a scene or the session.

Gestures

Where	Gesture	Result
Any knob	Drag up or down	Changes the value. Hold Shift for fine changes.
Any knob	Double-click	Restores the control’s default.
LVL strip (under WET)	Drag up or down · double-click	Changes the station’s output level · restores 0 dB.
Any knob	Drop a drag chip on it	Creates a route from that source.
A routed knob	Drag an arc’s end handle	Reshapes that route’s MIN or MAX.
A routed knob	Drag the arc body	Moves the whole range.
A routed knob	Double-click an arc	Removes that route.
Station card	Click	Focuses the station in the apron.
Station card	Drag left or right	Reorders the rack.
Station card, SPLIT on	Click the LANE chip	Moves the station to the other lane.
Preset field	Click	Opens the LIBRARY.
Undo lens	Click · Shift-click	Undo · redo.
Pad	Click empty space · click a point · double-click · drag a point · alt-click or right-click a point	Places a vector point · selects it · deselects it · moves it · removes it.
Pad	Drag the crosshair	Moves the morph position by hand.

The plugin takes no keyboard shortcuts: every key belongs to the host, so Space and the transport keys keep working while the window is open. The one field that accepts typing is the preset NAME in the LIBRARY.

Parameters

133 live controls in COLLAGE 0.1.4. Mod marks a control that can be a modulation destination. Host parameter is the name a DAW’s automation list shows.

Master path (head band)

The five knobs in the head band read left to right in signal order: IN feeds the rack, then MIX, HP, LP and OUT follow it. Two more master settings are held in the session without a panel control.

Control	Host parameter	Range · default	Mod	What it does
IN	In Trim	−24.0 dB to +24.0 dB · default 0.0 dB	●	Gain applied before the rack. Every follower and analysis lane sees the trimmed signal.
MIX	Dry Wet Mix	0 to 100 % · default 100 %	—	Master blend between the untouched input and the rack’s output. The dry side is delay-compensated, so 50 % is a true half-and-half.
HP	Output HP	OFF, then 20 Hz to 2 kHz · default OFF	●	Output high-pass after the master blend, 12 dB per octave. The frequency shown is the filter’s −6 dB point (no resonance); the −3 dB corner is higher, at 1.55 times that frequency. At the bottom of its travel the filter is out of the path entirely.
LP	Output LP	800 Hz to 20 kHz, then OFF · default OFF	●	Output low-pass after the high-pass, 12 dB per octave. The frequency shown is the filter’s −6 dB point (no resonance); the −3 dB corner is lower, at 0.64 times that frequency. At the top of its travel the filter is out of the path entirely.
OUT	Out Trim	−24.0 dB to +24.0 dB · default 0.0 dB	●	Final gain before the soft ceiling.
not on the panel	Safety	OFF · ON · default ON	—	Arms the zero-latency soft ceiling that ends the path, a sample-peak limiter (not true-peak; inter-sample peaks can exceed it by several dB). On in every shipped session; the CEIL lamp in the head band’s cluster lights while the ceiling is reducing gain.
not on the panel	Ceiling	−12.0 dBFS to 0.0 dBFS · default −0.3 dBFS	—	The sample-peak level the soft ceiling holds the output under. Peaks settle about 0.35 dB under it, and peaks between the samples can exceed it by several dB. Held in the session; presets do not change it.

Rack: SPLIT and CROSS

Rack order and each station’s power are structural state on the station cards; these two parameters are the split topology.

Control	Host parameter	Range · default	Mod	What it does
SPLIT (apron latch)	Split	OFF · ON · default OFF	—	Runs the rack as two parallel lanes, A and B. With SPLIT on, every station card gains a LANE chip that moves that station between lanes, and the lanes are summed through CROSS. Reported latency does not change.
CROSS (apron knob)	Cross	A100 · B0 to A0 · B100 · default A50 · B50	●	The blend of the two lane outputs when SPLIT is on, from all lane A to all lane B. In a serial rack it does nothing.

SPECTRAL

Group ladder: REGION · MOVE · TONE · FREEZE. Mode segment: FREEZE (RUN / HOLD).

Control	Host parameter	Range · default	Mod	What it does
PWR	Spectral Enable	OFF · ON · default ON	—	Powers the station. Power is a 10 ms fade on a station that keeps running, so switching costs no click and the station’s history stays warm.
WET	Spectral Mix	0 to 100 % · default 50 %	●	Blend of the station’s output against its own input.
LVL (under WET)	Spectral Wet Level	−24.0 dB to +12.0 dB · default 0.0 dB	●	Output level of the station’s processed signal, applied before the WET blend; the dry side never passes through it. It balances the station against the rest of the rack without driving the effect harder. 0 dB is the original level.
FREEZE segment (RUN / HOLD)	Spectral Hold	RUN to HOLD; continuous under modulation · default RUN	●	Holds the spectrum that was sounding when HOLD engaged as a bed and blends it with the live signal. The segment switches between RUN and HOLD; as a modulation destination it is continuous, so a route can fade the held bed in and out.
PARTS (REGION)	Parts	0 to 100 % · default 65 %	●	How finely the spectrum is cut into regions before anything is moved: low values treat broad bands as one piece, high values give every partial its own region.
FOCUS (REGION)	Focus	0 to 100 % · default 0 %	●	Which regions HOLD keeps. At 0 the whole spectrum is held; at 100 % only the regions within 12 dB of the loudest one, so a chord can be held while quieter, moving material stays live.
DIVERGE (REGION)	Diverge	0 to 100 % · default 25 %	●	Displaces the right channel’s regions differently from the left, keeping the low end mono-coherent at every setting. It acts only while SCATTER is above 0.
SHIFT (MOVE)	Shift	−24 to +24 st · default 0.0 st	●	Moves every region up or down the spectrum. TRACK decides whether the move is musical or a fixed offset in Hz.
SCATTER (MOVE)	Spectral Scatter	a bound of ±0 to ±12 st per region · default ±0.0 st	●	Displaces each region by its own random amount inside the bound the knob sets. The draws are seeded, so a bounce from any bar reproduces them. Low partials scatter progressively less toward the bottom of the spectrum rather than being cut off.
TRANS (MOVE)	Spectral Transient	0 to 100 % · default 65 %	●	Transient handling: on an onset COLLAGE re-anchors the sound and cuts the BLUR and SMEAR tails, so attacks arrive intact instead of smeared.
TILT (TONE)	Spectral Tilt	−100 to +100 % · default 0 %	●	A spectral slope of up to ±6 dB per octave, referenced to 1 kHz. An automatic energy compensation then rebalances the sound, so 1 kHz is not a fixed pivot: the 0 dB point sits wherever the material’s energy balances. On a flat spectrum, full positive TILT leaves 1 kHz about 12 dB down. Negative darkens, positive brightens.
BLUR (TONE)	Diffuse	0 to 100 % · default 0 %	●	Spreads energy across neighbouring frequencies; the spread widens progressively as the control rises.
SMEAR (TONE)	Smear	0 to 100 % · default 0 %	●	Temporal inertia: how slowly the spectrum’s magnitudes release, from instantaneous up to a 2-second time constant at full SMEAR. A time constant of 2 s means the level falls 8.7 dB every 2 s, so a held sound takes about 14 s to fall 60 dB. Transients still arrive intact at full SMEAR.
TRACK (FREEZE)	Track	0 to 100 % · default 100 %	●	How SHIFT moves the regions: at 100 % it transposes them, at 0 it adds the same offset in Hz to every region. The two agree at 440 Hz, so morphing TRACK is smooth.
RATE (FREEZE)	Rate	0 to 100 % · default 25 %	●	How fast the displacement field drifts. At 0 the SCATTER pattern is static; higher values keep it moving, and BLUR breathes with it.
not on the panel	Resolution	LIVE · FAST · MID · FINE · default FAST	—	The spectral analysis tier, and the one setting that decides the plugin’s latency: 435, 819, 1587 or 3123 samples at 44.1 or 48 kHz. Structural: held in the session, not automatable and not routable.

GRANULAR

Group ladder: CLOUD · PITCH · FIELD · WINDOW · MOTION. Mode segment: SYNC (OFF / GRID).

Control	Host parameter	Range · default	Mod	What it does
PWR	Granular Enable	OFF · ON · default OFF	—	Powers the station, as a click-free 10 ms fade. The station’s four seconds of input history keep filling while it is off.
WET	Wet	0 to 100 % · default 50 %	●	Blend of the grain cloud against the station’s input.
LVL (under WET)	Granular Wet Level	−24.0 dB to +12.0 dB · default 0.0 dB	●	Output level of the station’s processed signal, applied before the WET blend; the dry side never passes through it. It balances the station against the rest of the rack without driving the effect harder. 0 dB is the original level.
SYNC segment (OFF / GRID)	Granular Sync	OFF · GRID · default OFF	●	GRID quantises each grain’s start to the DIV division of the host tempo; OFF spawns freely. Without a valid tempo GRID falls back to free spawning and the readout says FREE.
SIZE (CLOUD)	Size	5 ms to 500 ms · default 80 ms	●	Length of each grain.
DENSITY (CLOUD)	Density	0.25 to 32 overlapping grains · default 4.0	●	How many grains overlap at once. From about 2 overlapping grains upward the level is compensated, so DENSITY changes the texture rather than the loudness. Below that the cloud is sparse and is not compensated: it gets quieter as DENSITY falls, by up to about 12 dB at the bottom of the knob.
POSITION (CLOUD)	Position	0 to 100 % · default 0 %	●	Where in the last four seconds of input the grains read from: 0 is now, 100 % the oldest reach. A fresh insert at 100 % hears silence until four seconds have passed.
PITCH (PITCH)	Pitch	−24.0 st to +24.0 st · default 0.0 st	●	Transposes every grain.
SCATTER (PITCH)	Granular Scatter	0 to 100 % · default 0 %	●	A random pitch offset per grain, up to the amount set.
SCALE (PITCH)	Scale	OFF · OCT · 5TH · MAJ · MIN · HARM · CHROM · default OFF	●	Quantises the scattered pitches to a scale: octaves, fifths, major, natural minor, harmonic minor or chromatic semitones.
SPRAY (FIELD)	Spray	0 to 100 % · default 20 %	●	A random read position per grain. The low end of the knob gives fine control, and the whole reachable window opens at 100 %.
SPREAD (FIELD)	Spread	0 to 100 % · default 35 %	●	Stereo placement of the grains, from identical channels at 0 to a fully spread field.
JITTER (FIELD)	Jitter	0 to 100 % · default 15 %	●	A random size variation per grain.
SHAPE (WINDOW)	Shape	0 to 100 % · default 0 %	●	The grain window’s flat top: 0 is a fully smooth window, 100 % holds each grain at full level for most of its length.
TILT (WINDOW)	Granular Tilt	−100 to +100 % · default 0 %	●	Skews the grain window: negative front-loads the attack, positive swells into the grain.
TRANS (WINDOW)	Granular Transient	0 to 100 % · default 25 %	●	Transient preservation. On an onset, grains are pulled toward the present and their windows front-loaded, so attacks keep their definition inside the cloud.
REVERSE (MOTION)	Reverse	0 to 100 % · default 0 %	●	The probability that a grain plays backwards.
HOLD (MOTION)	Granular Hold	LIVE · HOLD · default LIVE	●	Parks the input history so the cloud keeps reading the same four seconds while everything else stays playable. HOLD outranks a bypass. The corridor pane offers RELEASE HOLD; after an explicit transport stop a held cloud waits for fresh audio.
DIV (MOTION)	Granular Division	1/1 · 1/2 · 1/4 · 1/4T · 1/8 · 1/8T · 1/16 · 1/16T · 1/32 · default 1/16	●	The division GRID snaps grain starts to.
not on the panel	Random	FREE · LOCK · STATIC · default LOCK	—	LOCK repeats exactly from any bar; FREE runs freely from the last reset; STATIC repeats one fixed choice. Structural: not automatable and not routable.

MANGLE

Group ladder: DRIVE · ARM + · ARM −.

Control	Host parameter	Range · default	Mod	What it does
PWR	Mangle Enable	OFF · ON · default OFF	—	Powers the station, as a click-free 10 ms fade.
WET	Mangle Mix	0 to 100 % · default 50 %	●	Blend of the shaped signal against the station’s input. Because the shaper is level-compensated, WET and LVL are where the station’s loudness is set.
LVL (under WET)	Mangle Wet Level	−24.0 dB to +12.0 dB · default 0.0 dB	●	Output level of the station’s processed signal, applied before the WET blend; the dry side never passes through it. It balances the station against the rest of the rack without driving the effect harder. 0 dB is the original level.
DRIVE (DRIVE)	Mangle Drive	1× to 8× input gain · default 35 %	●	Input gain into the transfer curve. Automatic level compensation returns the wet path to its dry level, so DRIVE changes the spectrum, not the loudness.
STAGES (DRIVE)	Mangle Stages	1 to 4 passes, continuous · default 1.0	●	How many times the waveform passes through the curve. Fractional stages crossfade smoothly and each stage’s shape scales automatically, so several gentle passes stay smoother than one hard one.
SPLIT (DRIVE)	Mangle Split	−100 to +100 % · default 0 %	●	Where the waveform is divided into its positive and negative arms, referenced to the signal’s own level. 0 is the zero crossing; the seam is hard.
SHAPE (ARM +)	Mangle Shape +	0 to 100 % · default 35 %	●	The positive arm’s character, from transparent to fully shaped. Above about 85 % QUANT becomes a musical gate.
ALG + (ARM +)	Mangle Algo Pos	THRU · SOFT · CLIP · DIODE · CHEBY · RECT · QUANT · default SOFT	—	The positive arm’s algorithm. A static selector: stepping it under modulation would be a discontinuity, so it is not a route destination.
SHAPE − (ARM −)	Mangle Shape -	0 to 100 % · default 35 %	●	The negative arm’s character, independent of the positive arm.
ALG − (ARM −)	Mangle Algo Neg	THRU · SOFT · CLIP · DIODE · CHEBY · RECT · QUANT · default SOFT	—	The negative arm’s algorithm. Two different algorithms compose an asymmetric curve.

TIME

Group ladder: READ · SPLICE · PITCH · GRID · REPEAT. Mode segment: SHAPE GUARD (OFF / ON).

Control	Host parameter	Range · default	Mod	What it does
PWR	Time Enable	OFF · ON · default OFF	—	Powers the station, as a click-free 10 ms fade.
WET	Time Mix	0 to 100 % · default 50 %	●	One blend of the whole station against its input. The read head, the transient shaping and the slices render their complete effect before this single mix.
LVL (under WET)	Time Wet Level	−24.0 dB to +12.0 dB · default 0.0 dB	●	Output level of the station’s processed signal, applied before the WET blend; the dry side never passes through it. It balances the station against the rest of the rack without driving the effect harder. 0 dB is the original level.
RATE (READ)	Time Rate	FREEZE at the centre; up to 2.00× at either end, the left half in reverse · default 0.50× with SYNC at RATIO	●	Playback rate of the read head on a geometric taper: FREEZE at the centre, unity near the ends of each half, reverse on the left. With SYNC at RATIO it snaps to a ten-step ladder of musical ratios so a stretched phrase stays on the grid.
POS (READ)	Time Pos	0 to 100 % · default 0 %	●	The read position inside the WINDOW.
SCRUB (READ)	Scrub Mode	JUMP · TAPE · default JUMP	—	How a POS move is performed. JUMP relocates the read head; TAPE adds the move’s velocity to the pitch, so dragging sounds like pulling tape.
SHAPE (SPLICE)	Time Shape	−100 to +100 % · default 0 %	●	Transient shaping. The centre is exactly off; to the right the attacks PUNCH, to the left they SMEAR with onset dispersion.
SHAPE GUARD segment (OFF / ON)	Time Shape Guard	OFF · ON · default ON	—	Limits the transient gain that positive SHAPE (PUNCH) adds to 2× before WEAVE, so hard punch cannot slam the output safety stage. OFF restores the original 8× range; zero and negative SHAPE are unaffected. ON by default, also in sessions saved before it existed.
WEAVE (SPLICE)	Time Weave	0 to 100 % · default 0 %	●	The slice re-sequencer in one control, least destructive first: gating, then reordering, reverse from 35 %, stutter from 72 %. It starts after a quarter bar of enabled audio, fades in rather than pops, and at a longer DIV waits until it has a whole slice to play.
WINDOW (SPLICE)	Window	FREE · 1/4 · 1/2 · 1 · 2 · 4 · default FREE	●	The span of live history the read head traverses: FREE, or a number of beats at the host tempo. A beat window is held between four grain lengths and the four-second history less one grain, so a long window cannot lock at a slow tempo: 4 beats lock only above about 62 BPM, 2 beats above about 31 and 1 beat above about 16 (RATE moves these slightly).
PITCH (PITCH)	Time Pitch	−24.0 st to +24.0 st · default 0.0 st	●	Transposes both the stretched read and the slices.
TIMBRE (PITCH)	Timbre	−12 to +12 st · default 0.0 st	●	A tilt corrector for the colour of a pitch shift: it corrects tilt, not formants.
TRACK (PITCH)	Timbre Track	OFF · TRACK · default OFF	—	Ties TIMBRE to the opposite of PITCH, so a transposition is corrected without a second gesture. TIMBRE spans ±12 st while PITCH spans ±24 st, so beyond ±12 st of PITCH the correction stops growing.
SYNC (GRID)	Time Sync	FREE · RATIO · default RATIO	—	RATIO snaps RATE to musical ratios; FREE leaves it continuous. Not a route destination.
DIV (GRID)	Time Division	AUTO · 1/2 · 1/4 · 1/8 · 1/8T · 1/16 · 1/16T · 1/32 · default AUTO	●	The slice division WEAVE works on. AUTO lets WEAVE choose the division.
SWING (GRID)	Swing	−50 to +50 % · default 0 %	●	Shifts every second slice boundary.
REPEAT (REPEAT)	Repeat	OFF · ON · default OFF	●	Latches the newest division and repeats it. Ready after one division of audio, audible even with WEAVE at 0. As a route destination a synced LFO turns it into a rhythmic stutter.
REP DIV (REPEAT)	Repeat Div	1/2 · 1/4 · 1/8 · 1/8T · 1/16 · 1/16T · 1/32 · default 1/16	●	The division REPEAT holds.

PLEAT

Group ladder: DRIVE · ARM + · ARM −.

Control	Host parameter	Range · default	Mod	What it does
PWR	Pleat Enable	OFF · ON · default OFF	—	Powers the station, as a click-free 10 ms fade.
WET	Pleat Mix	0 to 100 % · default 50 %	●	Blend of the folded signal against the station’s input. The dry side keeps the low end; PLEAT reads best as seasoning below MANGLE’s level.
LVL (under WET)	Pleat Wet Level	−24.0 dB to +12.0 dB · default 0.0 dB	●	Output level of the station’s processed signal, applied before the WET blend; the dry side never passes through it. It balances the station against the rest of the rack without driving the effect harder. 0 dB is the original level.
DRIVE (DRIVE)	Pleat Drive	1× to 8× input gain · default 30 %	●	Input gain into the folder, level-compensated like MANGLE’s.
STAGES (DRIVE)	Pleat Stages	1 to 4 passes, continuous · default 1.0	●	How many times the waveform passes through the fold. Fractional stages crossfade.
SPLIT (DRIVE)	Pleat Split	−100 to +100 % · default 0 %	●	Where the waveform is divided into its two arms, referenced to level. The seam is smooth. With WIDE open, asymmetry here is also what makes the station stereo.
FOLD (ARM +)	Pleat Fold +	0 to 100 % · default 30 %	●	Fold depth of the positive arm.
ALG + (ARM +)	Pleat Algo Pos	THRU · MIRROR · SINE · CREASE · WRAP · LEDGE · STEP · default MIRROR	—	The positive arm’s fold algorithm. A static selector, not a route destination.
FOLD − (ARM −)	Pleat Fold -	0 to 100 % · default 30 %	●	Fold depth of the negative arm.
ALG − (ARM −)	Pleat Algo Neg	THRU · MIRROR · SINE · CREASE · WRAP · LEDGE · STEP · default SINE	—	The negative arm’s fold algorithm.
WIDE (ARM −)	Pleat Wide	0 to 100 % · default 100 %	●	Makes the right channel fold differently from the left. At 0 both channels fold identically; at 100 % the right channel folds differently, which widens the image while the mono sum keeps the odd-harmonic body. Disabled on a mono track.

Macros

Four performance knobs in the apron. Each is also a control source that presets route to many destinations, and a destination another source can drive.

Control	Host parameter	Range · default	Mod	What it does
THROTTLE	Throttle	0 to 100 % · default 0 %	●	How hard the rack is being driven. Rests at 0.
COLOR	Color	0 to 100 % · default 50 %	●	The rack’s tonal centre of gravity. Rests at the centre.
GRAIN	Grain	0 to 100 % · default 50 %	●	How thick and busy the texture is. Rests at the centre.
DRIFT	Drift	0 to 100 % · default 50 %	●	How far the stream wanders from the clock. Rests at the centre.

LFO 1 and LFO 2 (MOD band)

The two LFO slots share one control set. Drag the slot’s chip onto any knob to route it.

Control	Host parameter	Range · default	Mod	What it does
HZ / RATE segment	Lfo1 Sync	HZ · RATE · default RATE	—	The clock. RATE locks the LFO to the host tempo through the division ladder; HZ runs it free. A free LFO is the one thing that does not reproduce identically from an arbitrary transport position.
RATE knob, with RATE selected	Lfo1 Rate	8 BAR · 4 BAR · 2 BAR · 1 BAR · 1/2 · 1/4 · 1/8 · 1/16 · 1/32 · 1/64 · 1/128 · default 1 BAR	—	The synced division, one full cycle per division. A bar is always four beats: COLLAGE does not read the host’s time signature.
RATE knob, with HZ selected	Lfo1 Hz	0.02 to 20 Hz · default 1.0 Hz	—	The free-running rate.
STR / DOT / TRI segment	Lfo1 Rate Mod	STR · DOT · TRI · default STR	—	Straight, dotted (×1.5) or triplet (×2/3) timing for the synced division.
waveform picker	Lfo1 Wave	basic shape · RAMP · PULSE · SIDECH · STAIRS · CUSTOM · default basic shape	—	The waveform bank: the basic shape chosen by Lfo Shape, one of four drawn contours, or CUSTOM, a 16-point table you draw directly on the slot’s scope.
waveform picker	Lfo1 Shape	SINE · TRI · SAW · SQR · default SINE	—	The basic shape used when Lfo Wave is on its first entry.
SMOOTH	Lfo1 Smooth	0 to 100 % · default 0 %	—	Smoothing on the LFO output, up to 250 ms. At 0 the waveform is raw, corners and all.
HZ / RATE segment	Lfo2 Sync	HZ · RATE · default RATE	—	As LFO 1.
RATE knob, with RATE selected	Lfo2 Rate	8 BAR · 4 BAR · 2 BAR · 1 BAR · 1/2 · 1/4 · 1/8 · 1/16 · 1/32 · 1/64 · 1/128 · default 1/2	—	As LFO 1.
RATE knob, with HZ selected	Lfo2 Hz	0.02 to 20 Hz · default 0.5 Hz	—	As LFO 1.
STR / DOT / TRI segment	Lfo2 Rate Mod	STR · DOT · TRI · default STR	—	As LFO 1.
waveform picker	Lfo2 Wave	basic shape · RAMP · PULSE · SIDECH · STAIRS · CUSTOM · default basic shape	—	As LFO 1.
waveform picker	Lfo2 Shape	SINE · TRI · SAW · SQR · default TRI	—	As LFO 1.
SMOOTH	Lfo2 Smooth	0 to 100 % · default 0 %	—	As LFO 1.

ENV 1 and ENV 2 (MOD band)

The two envelope followers share one control set. The panel shows AHDSR and MODE; the tap, threshold, tracking and sensitivity live in the session and the host’s parameter list.

Control	Host parameter	Range · default	Mod	What it does
ATK	Env1 Attack	1 ms to 500 ms · default 10 ms	—	Attack time. The five AHDSR values are also draggable as nodes on the slot’s scope. In FOLLOW mode ATK is a time constant, not a travel time: the envelope covers 63 % of the distance to a rising level in this time, and 99 % in about 4.6 times as long.
HOLD	Env1 Hold	1 ms to 500 ms · default 20 ms	—	Hold time at the peak before the decay.
DEC	Env1 Decay	5 ms to 2 s · default 120 ms	—	Decay time from the peak to the sustain level.
SUS	Env1 Sustain	0 to 100 % · default 50 %	—	Sustain level while the gate stays open.
REL	Env1 Release	5 ms to 2 s · default 180 ms	—	Release time after the gate closes. In FOLLOW mode REL is a time constant, not a travel time: the envelope covers 63 % of the distance to a falling level in this time, and 99 % in about 4.6 times as long.
GATE / TRIG / FOLLOW segment	Env 1 Mode	GATE · TRIG · FOLLOW · default GATE	—	GATE holds the envelope open while the source is above threshold and releases when it falls 5 dB below; TRIG fires one AHDSR shot per transient; FOLLOW tracks the level with attack and release time constants (ATK rising, REL falling; 63 % of the way in that time), which is the honest choice for material that pumps.
not on the panel	Env 1 Source	IN · SC · WET · OUT · default IN	—	Which tap the envelope listens to: the trimmed input, the sidechain bus, the rack’s wet output or the final output. Set from the host’s parameter list or by a preset.
not on the panel	Env 1 Threshold	−72 to 0 dBFS · default −38.0 dBFS	●	The gate’s open point; it closes 5 dB below. The default is −38 dBFS. Set from the host’s parameter list or by a preset.
not on the panel	Env 1 Tracking	0 to 100 % · default 0 %	—	Auto-tracking: at 100 % the gate opens whenever the material is within 6 dB of its own recent average. 0, an absolute threshold, is the default.
not on the panel	Env 1 Sensitivity	0 to 100 % · default 50 %	●	Retrigger sensitivity: how strong a transient must be to retrigger the attack while the gate is open.
ATK	Env2 Attack	1 ms to 500 ms · default 120 ms	—	As ENV 1.
HOLD	Env2 Hold	1 ms to 500 ms · default 40 ms	—	As ENV 1.
DEC	Env2 Decay	5 ms to 2 s · default 300 ms	—	As ENV 1.
SUS	Env2 Sustain	0 to 100 % · default 70 %	—	As ENV 1.
REL	Env2 Release	5 ms to 2 s · default 600 ms	—	As ENV 1.
GATE / TRIG / FOLLOW segment	Env 2 Mode	GATE · TRIG · FOLLOW · default GATE	—	As ENV 1.
not on the panel	Env 2 Source	IN · SC · WET · OUT · default IN	—	As ENV 1.
not on the panel	Env 2 Threshold	−72 to 0 dBFS · default −38.0 dBFS	●	As ENV 1.
not on the panel	Env 2 Tracking	0 to 100 % · default 0 %	—	As ENV 1.
not on the panel	Env 2 Sensitivity	0 to 100 % · default 50 %	●	As ENV 1.

Scenes and morph (MORPH page)

Four scenes, A to D, are stored patches; the morph pad blends them.

Control	Host parameter	Range · default	Mod	What it does
morph pad, horizontal	Reg X	0 to 100 % · default 50 %	●	The morph position between the left scenes (A, C) and the right scenes (B, D). Drag the crosshair, or let VECTOR drive it through LINK.
morph pad, vertical	Reg Y	0 to 100 % · default 50 %	●	The morph position between the top scenes (A, B) and the bottom scenes (C, D).
MORPH DEPTH	Reg Depth	0 to 100 % · default 0 %	●	How far the scene blend pulls the controls away from the stored patch. At 0 the scenes are silent; RECALL moves the pad onto one scene at full depth.

VECTOR (VECTOR page)

An authored path of up to 16 points with a travelling playhead that publishes X, Y and PROG as control sources.

Control	Host parameter	Range · default	Mod	What it does
CLOCK segment (HZ / RATE)	Path Sync	HZ · RATE · default RATE	—	RATE locks one traversal of the path to the host tempo; HZ runs it free.
RATE knob, with RATE selected	Path Rate	1/4 · 1/2 · 1 BAR · 2 BAR · 4 BAR · default 1 BAR	—	How long one traversal of the whole path takes. A bar is always four beats: COLLAGE does not read the host’s time signature.
RATE knob, with HZ selected	Path Hz	0.02 to 20 Hz · default 0.5 Hz	●	The free-running traversal rate. Routable, so the path can speed itself up.
FEEL segment (STR / DOT / TRI)	Path Rate Mod	STR · DOT · TRI · default STR	—	Straight, dotted or triplet timing for the synced rate.
MULT segment	Vector Multiplier	x1 · x2 · x4 · x8 · x16 · default x1	—	Multiplies the traversal rate, so a 1/4-bar path can run at a sixty-fourth.
MODE segment	Path Mode	LOOP · PING · ONCE · SCAT · default LOOP	—	LOOP travels the closed shape; PING runs it back and forth; ONCE runs it a single time and rests at the last point; SCAT jumps between the points in a seeded random order.
VEC knob	Path Depth	0 to 100 % · default 100 %	●	How far X and Y travel from the centre of the pad.

Global

Control	Host parameter	Range · default	Mod	What it does
not on the panel	Seed	0 to 65535 · default 0	—	The one seed every random process derives from. Two sessions with the same seed and the same transport position make the same choices. Structural: held in the session, not automatable and not routable.

Control sources

27 control sources are live in COLLAGE 0.1.4. Domain is the range a source publishes and the point a route measures it from; with ADD or MULTIPLY, a route from a source sitting at that point leaves its destination exactly on the stored value. Under silence most analysis lanes publish 0 rather than 0.5 (see the note below the tables).

Input followers

Source	Shown as	Domain	What it reads
`in.level`	INPUT LEVEL	0 to 1, rests at 0	loudness of the trimmed input
`in.transient`	INPUT TRANSIENT	0 to 1, rests at 0	onset strength of the trimmed input
`in.tone`	INPUT TONE	−1 to +1	spectral tilt of the trimmed input, dark to bright
`in.noise`	INPUT NOISE	0 to 1, rests at 0	high-frequency energy of the trimmed input; white noise reads about 0.67, and so does a bright tone

Generators

Source	Shown as	Domain	What it reads
`mod.lfo1`	LFO 1	−1 to +1	LFO 1’s output
`mod.lfo2`	LFO 2	−1 to +1	LFO 2’s output
`mod.env1`	ENV 1	0 to 1, rests at 0	ENV 1’s output
`mod.env2`	ENV 2	0 to 1, rests at 0	ENV 2’s output

Analysis lanes

Source	Shown as	Domain	What it reads
`analysis.spectral_centroid`	CENTROID	0 to 1, measured from 0.5	SPECTRAL’s output centroid
`analysis.spectral_flux`	FLUX	0 to 1, measured from 0.5	how much SPECTRAL’s output spectrum is changing
`analysis.brightness`	BRIGHTNESS	0 to 1, measured from 0.5	the share of SPECTRAL’s output above a quarter of the sample rate (12 kHz at 48 kHz); 0 for material below it
`analysis.grain_density`	DENSITY	0 to 1, measured from 0.5	how many grains GRANULAR is sounding
`analysis.grain_rms`	GRAIN	0 to 1, measured from 0.5	GRANULAR’s output level
`analysis.mangle_input_rms`	DRIVE-IN	0 to 1, measured from 0.5	the level entering MANGLE’s shaper
`analysis.mangle_harmonics`	HARMONICS	0 to 1, measured from 0.5	MANGLE’s shaping activity; level-sensitive by design
`analysis.time_transient`	TRANSIENT	0 to 1, measured from 0.5	transient strength of the signal entering TIME
`analysis.time_env_rms`	ENVELOPE	0 to 1, measured from 0.5	the level of the signal entering TIME
`analysis.time_scrub`	SCRUB	0 to 1, measured from 0.5	TIME’s read phase, 0 to 1: a free ultra-slow ramp whose period is the RATE setting
`analysis.pleat_folds`	PLEAT FOLDS	0 to 1, rests at 0	PLEAT’s fold-crossing activity, proportional to pitch
`analysis.pleat_split`	PLEAT SPLIT	0 to 1, measured from 0.5	PLEAT’s split asymmetry, also its stereo-width readout

Macros

Source	Shown as	Domain	What it reads
`macro.reassemble`	THROTTLE	0 to 1, rests at 0	the THROTTLE knob
`macro.color`	COLOR	0 to 1, measured from 0.5	the COLOR knob
`macro.density`	GRAIN	0 to 1, measured from 0.5	the GRAIN knob
`macro.time`	DRIFT	0 to 1, measured from 0.5	the DRIFT knob

Vector

Source	Shown as	Domain	What it reads
`path.x`	VECTOR X	0 to 1, measured from 0.5	the vector playhead’s horizontal position
`path.y`	VECTOR Y	0 to 1, measured from 0.5	the vector playhead’s vertical position
`path.progress`	VECTOR POS	0 to 1, measured from 0.5	how far along the path the playhead is

A note on the analysis lanes and in.noise. The “measured from 0.5” in the Domain column is the centre a route measures an analysis lane from, not what the lane publishes at silence. Under silence nine of the twelve analysis lanes publish 0: the three SPECTRAL lanes, GRANULAR’s level, both MANGLE lanes, TIME’s transient and envelope lanes and PLEAT’s fold activity. PLEAT’s split rests at 0.5, GRANULAR’s density rests at the level DENSITY sets, and TIME’s read phase is a free-running ramp. TIME’s transient and envelope lanes read the signal entering TIME, and SPECTRAL’s lanes analyse a mono sum, so a signal in antiphase between the channels reads as silence there. in.noise is a high-frequency-energy index, not a noisiness measure: white noise reads about 0.67, and a bright tone reads alike.

A note on macro.reassemble. The identifier is kept so that older sessions still resolve their routes. The control it reads is THROTTLE.

Route settings

Every route carries the same set of settings, whether it was made by dropping a chip on a knob or in the inspector.

Setting	Values	Meaning
DEPTH	−100 to +100 %	How far the source moves the control. Negative depth inverts the excursion. A chip drop starts at a conservative depth over the middle of the control’s range.
MIN · MAX	the control’s own units	The span the source maps into. Drag the arc’s handles on the knob, or the rails in the inspector. ADD uses only the width of the span (half of it, times DEPTH, is the most it adds to the stored value), not its position.
CURVE	LINEAR · EXP · LOG · SMOOTH	The response between the source and the span.
POLARITY	BIPOLAR · POSITIVE · NEGATIVE · INVERT	Which side of the source’s rest point is used. NEGATIVE is refused on a source that never goes below its rest (the envelopes, the input followers, THROTTLE).
COMBINE	ADD · MULTIPLY · REPLACE · MIN · MAX · SPAN	How the route joins the stored value. ADD and MULTIPLY leave a resting control on its stored value; REPLACE, MIN, MAX and SPAN land a resting control on a deterministic value of their own, by design. ADD moves the stored value up and down by up to DEPTH times half the span’s width, wherever the span sits.
SLEW	ms	Per-route smoothing. A routed control bypasses the base smoother, so this is the only smoothing a routed control receives.
REST	AUTO or a value	Where the source counts as at rest. AUTO uses the source’s registry baseline.

Routes are evaluated once per control tick, in the order they are listed. A macro destination is resolved first, so a route into a macro reaches everything that macro drives in the same step. A route into a control whose station is powered off, into a macro with no audible target, or from a source the session cannot provide is kept and shown inactive with its reason; it never draws a live-looking meter.

Terms

Station. One of the five processors: SPECTRAL, GRANULAR, MANGLE, TIME, PLEAT. Each has a power latch, a WET blend, an output LEVEL and a group ladder of controls.

LEVEL. A station’s output level, the LVL strip under WET: a gain on its processed signal before the WET blend, from −24 to +12 dB. It balances the station without driving the effect harder.

SHAPE GUARD. TIME’s mode switch. ON, the default, limits the transient gain positive SHAPE can add to 2×; OFF restores the original 8×.

Rack. The five stations in the order the cards show. Audio runs through them left to right, once.

Corridor. The window’s hero display: the stream drawn from IN to OUT with the focused station’s transformation on it.

Lane, SPLIT, CROSS. With SPLIT on, the rack runs as two parallel lanes, A and B; every station is on one of them and CROSS blends the two lane outputs.

Control plane. Everything that moves a control without being audio: the input followers, the two LFOs, the two envelope followers, the analysis lanes, the macros, the scenes and the vector. It observes the audio and emits numbers; nothing it emits is ever rendered.

Control clock. The engine’s own fixed-rate clock. Every source is read and every route applied on it, which is why a render is bit-identical at any host buffer size.

Route. One connection from a source to a destination, with depth, range, curve, polarity, combine mode and slew. A patch holds up to 128.

Source. Something a route reads: the 27 lanes listed above. Drag chips exist for the LFOs, the envelopes and the vector axes; every source is available in the inspector.

Destination. A control a route can move: 60 station controls (each station’s WET and LVL included), the four macros, the IN and OUT trims, MIX’s neighbours HP and LP, CROSS, the envelope thresholds and sensitivities, the morph position and depth, and the VECTOR’s HZ rate and VEC depth. Power latches, algorithm selectors, TIME’s three modes and the structural settings are never destinations.

Macro. One of THROTTLE, COLOR, GRAIN and DRIFT. A macro is a knob you turn, a source presets route from, and a destination another source can drive. A macro may not drive another macro.

Scene. One of four stored patches, A to D, blended by the morph pad. STORE, RECALL and CLEAR are the verbs.

Morph. The blend between scenes: a position on the pad and a depth.

Vector. An authored path of up to 16 points that a playhead travels, publishing X, Y and progress as sources. LINK ties X and Y to the morph position with two ordinary routes.

Follower. A control-rate measurement of a signal tap: the four input followers read the trimmed input; the envelopes read whichever tap they are set to.

Analysis lane. A control-rate measurement of a station as it processes, live whenever a route asks for it, even while that station is bypassed. Most lanes read the station’s output; TIME’s transient and envelope lanes read the signal entering TIME. Under silence nine of the twelve rest at 0, not at the 0.5 centre a route measures from.

Group ladder. The named groups of a station’s controls, seated in the well one at a time.

Well. The dark recess in the apron that holds the seated group’s knobs.

WET and MIX. WET is a station’s blend against its own input. MIX is the master blend of the whole rack against the dry signal.

PWR. A station’s power. A powered-off station passes audio unchanged, keeps its history warm, and still feeds any analysis lane a route demands.

SOLO. An audition override that plays the focused station alone. It changes nothing that is saved.

INIT, BLANK. INIT is the patch a fresh insert opens on: a gentle, obviously-COLLAGE patch with two stations on, fifteen routes, scenes and a linked vector. BLANK is the neutral instrument: every control at its default, no routes, canonical order. RESET BLANK in the LIBRARY reaches it.

Preset, bank. A .clgpreset file holds one whole patch: every parameter, the rack order and power, the routes, the scenes, the vector, the custom LFO tables and the seed. The factory content is 336 presets: INIT and sixteen themed banks.

Latency, PDC. The delay the plugin reports so the host can align it. It is set by the RESOLUTION tier alone and does not change when a station is bypassed, reordered, split or modulated.

Resolution tier. LIVE, FAST, MID or FINE: the SPECTRAL RESOLUTION tier, and with it the latency. FAST is the default.

Seed, LOCK. One number every random process derives from. Anything in LOCK mode keys its draws to the musical position, so a bounce from bar 33 matches the same bars of a pass from bar 1.

Structural setting. A setting the router, the automation layer, RANDOM and the morph all leave alone: RESOLUTION, SEED and GRANULAR’s RANDOM mode. Changing one is a session decision, not a performance gesture.

Legacy session. Every session ever saved still opens. A session saved by an earlier COLLAGE version opens in a compatibility mode and is marked LEGACY.

Sidechain. An optional input bus that feeds the envelope followers and nothing else. It never reaches the audio path.

Ceiling. The zero-latency soft limiter that ends the path, holding sample peaks under the session’s ceiling level. It is a sample-peak ceiling, not a true-peak limiter: peaks that fall between samples can exceed the ceiling level by several dB.

Trim. A plain gain: IN before the rack, OUT before the ceiling.