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Choir swell
A choir that swells from silence to a full chord on the big moments (tease, limit, the last act) and sinks back, vowels opening as it grows; silent otherwise.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| moments | choice | last-act | last-act, all, limit | which hits get a swell: the last act, every step or only the limit (the tease always) |
| swell | number | 4 | 1.5 to 10 s | how long the choir takes to swell in to the hit |
| fall | number | 4 | 1 to 10 s | how long it takes to sink back |
| vowel | choice | ah | ah, oh, ee, eh, oo | the vowel the choir opens to on the hit |
| coda | bool | true | – | a last soft swell on the home chord as the coda begins |
| opening | bool | true | – | the vowel starts closed ("oo") and opens as the choir swells |
| register | choice | mid | low, mid, high | where the choir sings |
| voices | integer | 3 | 3 to 4 | notes in each chord (the limit gets one more) |
| spread | number | 0.6 | 0 to 1 | how widely the voices sit between the ears |
| send | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | how much of the choir goes through the hall |
| hush | bool | true | – | The choir stops before a quiet threshold and comes back on its hit |
| quietLead | number | 2.5 | 1 to 6 s | how long before a quiet threshold it stops |
| 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 notes are drawn from |
| 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 |
Use it in a film
film.js
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