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Documentation

Each instrument has a manual in four parts: a getting-started guide, hands-on tutorials, a technical guide and a glossary of every function. The manuals describe the current build, and each landing page lists what it installs and what it needs.

MOSAIC

step-sequenced multi-effects · describes MOSAIC 0.1.14

01 Getting started with MOSAIC What MOSAIC is, how to install and activate it, and the five ideas behind the grid — with pictures. Read → 02 MOSAIC tutorials Seven hands-on recipes, from a LOOP stutter and an off-beat filter to modulation, the routing matrix, a twelve-pattern bank and the four macros. Read → 03 MOSAIC technical guide How MOSAIC is organised — the signal path, the timing model, each lane, the modulation layers, presets and files, and host integration. Read → 04 MOSAIC glossary of functions Every control in the MOSAIC window and every parameter of every lane — what it does and how it sounds. Read →

COLLAGE

live glitch-processing instrument · describes COLLAGE 0.1.0

01 Getting started with COLLAGE Install and activate COLLAGE, learn its window, and make your first changes in ten minutes. Read → 02 COLLAGE tutorials Seven hands-on sessions that take you step by step through presets, macros, the rack order, input followers, scenes, the VECTOR path and split lanes. Read → 03 COLLAGE technical guide How COLLAGE works, from the signal path and the five stations to the control plane, routing, determinism, latency, state, compatibility and licensing. Read → 04 COLLAGE glossary of functions Every surface, control, gesture, control source and term in COLLAGE, with the names a host shows. Read →

TEMPER

physical modeling instrument · describes TEMPER 0.1.35

01 Getting started with TEMPER What TEMPER is, how to install it, how its pages are laid out, the Library and the families, playing from a keyboard, and a first ten minutes. Read → 02 TEMPER tutorials Seven hands-on walks through TEMPER, from plucking a bass, striking a marimba and bowing a cello section to seating an orchestra on the Stage, Orchestrate, the Modulation page and the effects rack. Read → 03 TEMPER technical guide The reference for TEMPER's programs, material pad and macros, tuning and scales, voices, expression and MPE, the Modulation page, the Stage and Orchestrate, the effects rack, TEMPER FX, your DAW and troubleshooting. Read → 04 TEMPER glossary Every control you see in TEMPER, page by page, with its range and what it does, then the terms the manual uses. Read →

SAIL

physical wind instrument · in development

01 Getting started with SAIL What SAIL is, how to install it on an Apple Silicon Mac, how its window is laid out, and how to choose a breath source and play your first phrases.

02 SAIL tutorials Seven hands-on sessions with SAIL, from a clarinet line on a keyboard to the trombone's slide, an overtone drone, gliding siren chords and the Vortex Ring and Klein Bottle.

03 SAIL technical guide How SAIL's instruments are organised and played, covering exciters, family scaling, breath and play modes, bodies, presets, latency, host integration and each instrument's practical limits.

04 SAIL glossary of functions Every SAIL control with its range, default and host name, every part of the window and its readouts, and the terms the other guides use.

Coming soon The SAIL manual is published with its release.