Four pendulums, two swinging horizontally and two vertically, trace a figure together.
Each pendulum's frequency ratio does two jobs at once: it sets how often that
pendulum fires, and it sets the interval it plays. A 3:2 pendulum triggers three times
for every two of the base and sounds a perfect fifth.
Just sends per-channel pitch bend so the ratios are exactly in tune. Turn it off to
hear how far equal temperament sits from them.
For drones: Base cycles/bar takes fractions — .25 is one swing every four bars,
.125 every eight — and Gate runs to 2000%, so the strokes overlap into a chord that
turns over rather than a pulse. Set Decay to 0 and Auto-strike to off so
nothing resets. Swell sends each pendulum's own swing as a CC on its own channel
(11 = Expression by default), which bows the synth through the stroke instead of hitting
the front of it. Drift now wanders as well as detunes, so the phasing never
settles.
space play · S re-strike · C clear trail