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Breathing in thin air

Breaths as soft washes of air that come faster, shallower and duller as the air thins, with a thin high whistle and a gasp on each threshold.

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Parameters

Name	Type	Default	Range	What it does
rateHome	number	14	6 to 30 per min	breaths a minute at home
rateLimit	number	62	30 to 110 per min	breaths a minute at the limit
curve	number	1	0.4 to 2.5	how it follows the counter: under 1 builds early, over 1 builds late
depth	number	0.8	0.3 to 1.2	how full the first breaths are
shallow	number	0.55	0 to 0.9	how much shallower the breaths get by the limit
brightHome	number	0.65	0.2 to 0.95	how airy the breaths are at home
brightLimit	number	0.18	0.02 to 0.6	how airy they are at the limit; low is dull and strangled
style	choice	calm	calm, panting, gasping	the shape of a breath: even, short and equal, or a quick in and a long out
thin	number	0.4	0 to 1	a thin high whistle on the key that grows with the height
gasp	number	0.5	0 to 1	the gasp on each threshold
width	number	0.7	0 to 1	how widely it spreads left and right
where	choice	home	home, ladder	from home on, or only from the first stretch of the ladder
hush	bool	true	–	it falls silent before a quiet threshold and comes back on its hit
quietLead	number	3.2	1.5 to 6 s	how long before a quiet threshold it starts to fall silent
key	choice	C	C, C#, D, Eb, E, F, F#, G, Ab, A, Bb, B	the key its low and tuned tones sit in; the channel’s when unset
mode	choice	major	major, minor, dorian, lydian, mixolydian, phrygian	the scale its tuned tones are drawn from

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elements: { 'breath-thin': { rateHome: 14, rateLimit: 62 } }

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