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Breathing pads

Chords that swell in and out like slow breaths, quickening up the ladder and held before a quiet step: calm that turns anxious.

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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
rate	number	6	3 to 12 per min	breaths a minute at home
rateLimit	number	17	8 to 30 per min	breaths a minute at the limit
depth	number	0.9	0.2 to 1	how deep each breath is: 1 falls to silence between breaths, low ones run together
voice	choice	strings	strings, choir, glass	who breathes: strings, a choir or glass
vowel	choice	oh	oo, oh, ah	the choir's vowel
tone	choice	soft	bow, soft, flag	the strings' colour: bowed, soft or a near-pure harmonic
register	integer	50	44 to 60	the lowest note of a chord (MIDI)
voices	integer	4	3 to 5	notes in each chord
brightness	number	0.55	0.2 to 1	how bright the breath gets as it quickens
spread	number	0.6	0 to 1	how wide the voices sit between the ears
reverb	number	0.4	0 to 1	how much goes through the hall
hold	bool	true	–	the breath is held, then stops, before a quiet threshold; a sigh comes on its hit
quietLead	number	2.4	1 to 5 s	how long before a quiet threshold the breath stops

film.js

elements: { 'breathing-pads': { key: 'C', mode: 'major' } }

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