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Bloom of heat
Each chord glows like heated metal, hotter and brighter up the ladder, then cooling in the coda: harmony for heat, fire and fever.
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- Version
- 1.0.0
- Added
- 23 October 2026
- Films
- Not used in a film yet
Parameters
| Name | Type | Default | Range | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| key | choice | C | C, C#, D, Eb, E, F, F#, G, Ab, A, Bb, B | the home key; a channel that leaves it unset gets its own from its seed |
| mode | choice | major | major, minor, dorian, lydian, mixolydian, phrygian | the scale the chords are built on |
| family | choice | ascend | ascend, pendulum, fifths, plateau, drift | how the chord roots move from threshold to threshold |
| colour | integer | 2 | 0 to 3 | the chords' colour: 0 triad, 1 seventh, 2 add9, 3 sus2 |
| limit | choice | glow | glow, plagal, deceptive, open | the chord the limit lands on |
| heatFrom | number | 2000 | 1500 to 4500 K | the glow at home: a dull heat |
| heatTo | number | 11000 | 8000 to 12000 K | the glow at the limit: white hot |
| curve | choice | even | even, late, early | how the heat follows the counter: evenly, late or early |
| cooling | number | 0.75 | 0 to 0.9 | how far the glow dies in the coda |
| sag | number | 0.12 | 0 to 0.5 | how much each held chord cools before it is lit again |
| relight | number | 14 | 6 to 30 s | how long a chord glows before it is lit again hotter |
| notes | integer | 4 | 3 to 5 | notes in each chord |
| register | integer | 45 | 38 to 52 | the lowest note of a chord (MIDI) |
| reverb | number | 0.35 | 0 to 1 | how much goes through the hall |
| hush | bool | true | – | the layer stops before a quiet threshold and comes back on its hit |
| quietLead | number | 2.4 | 1 to 5 s | how long before a quiet threshold it stops |
Use it in a film
film.js
elements: { 'bloom-heat': { key: 'C', mode: 'major' } }Use it from your agent
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