MOSAIC

A granular cloud built from the live input. Grains stay aligned with one another, so pitched grains hold their tuning and level. GRAIN and SIEVE form a coupled pair: when both run, each steers the other, scaled by COUPLE; at 0 the lane is fully independent.

Grain size

5–200 ms

Density

1–8 overlapping grains

Pitch

±24 st

Latency

None

A spectral gate that passes only the frequency content standing out from its surroundings, so one threshold behaves the same from the lows to the highs. Open bands hold until they fall well below THRESH, so the gate never chatters, and RING sustains each band’s loudest moment as it decays.

TILT

±6 dB

Latency

1024 samples

Holds the spectrum of whatever is playing as a sustained sound, keeping every held partial at its own pitch so frozen chords stay in tune. FREEZE crossfades from pass-through to a full hold, and BLUR spreads and gently detunes the held partials so a hold shimmers. HOLD freezes what is playing; HIT freezes the hit that opens each step.

BLUR detune

Up to ±23 Hz

Latency

1024 samples

Chorus, flanger and phaser in one lane. All three keep running and are level-matched, so a MODE change, even on a single step, crossfades smoothly instead of dropping out.

RATE

0.01–10 Hz

Latency

None

A saturator that treats the positive and negative halves of the wave differently: ASYM adds even harmonics, and TONE decides which frequencies saturate rather than equalising the result. Output is level-matched for every curve, so hits keep their punch and nothing pumps.

Aliasing

Oversampled and anti-aliased

Loudness trim

Up to ±6 dB

Latency

A few samples

A tempo-synced looper. Every wrap of the loop is crossfaded the way a sampler loops, so seams never click, even at 1/16 beat. TRIG decides what starts a loop: the top of the pattern, the lane’s own step, or the audio just before the step.

SIZE

1/16 beat – 4 bars

PITCH

±24 st

Latency

None

Three resonant filter characters under one CUTOFF and RESO pair: LADDER, a saturating four-pole ladder whose resonance stays in tune and self-oscillates; MODAL, a bank of ringing resonators; and DIFFUSE, which delays the frequencies around CUTOFF so a hit smears into a chirp.

CUTOFF

20 Hz – 20 kHz

Latency

A few samples

Transient shaping that measures each hit against what was already playing, so a hit over a bed is shaped like a hit from silence and nothing is missed. ATTACK and SUSTN shape the hit and its tail; WARP smears each onset into a whoosh.

Latency

None

Time-warps the most recent input at musical ratios, with a hold at the centre of the knob, and the read head restarts whenever one of the lane’s steps opens. PITCH transposes independently of speed, and held tones keep their pitch at every ratio.

Ratios

1/8 · 1/4 · 1/3 · 1/2 · 2/3 · 3/4 · 1 · 1.5 · 2

Reverse

1/8 to 1

Latency

None

A beat re-sequencer locked to the host bar line and the sequencer’s SWING. ALGO arranges the bar’s slices from rhythm templates of rising complexity, while STUTTER and REVERSE add repeats and reversals. With nothing turned up, WEAVE is transparent.

SLICES

1/4 – 1/32, with triplets

PITCH

Whole semitones

Latency

None

A beat repeat shaped by a curve you draw across one cycle. CYCLE and DIV set the grid, and GRAB sets how much of each cycle replays a seized slot instead of playing live. With GRAB centred and a flat curve, the lane is perfectly transparent. The BENCH is the full-width curve editor.

CYCLE

1/8 bar – 4 bars

DIV

1/2 – 1/32, up to 64 slots

GLUE

0.5–10 ms

Latency

None

A tape machine that can be told to fail. SPEED runs from reverse through a braked stop to play, with pitch following speed. DAMAGE sets how often the transport fails, and the failures repeat identically on every loop pass; WEAR adds braking time, wow, flutter and motor sag.

Failure window

0.5–80 ms

SPEED

Reverse · stop · play

Latency

None