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Clock tick and tock

A clock ticking and tocking, faster toward every threshold, with a soft chime in the key as each one strikes; it stops dead before a quiet one.

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Parameters

Name	Type	Default	Range	What it does
tempo	number	76	56 to 104 bpm	the ticking rate at home, one tick or tock a beat
tightening	number	0.5	0 to 1	how much faster it ticks by the limit (1 about half again)
accelerate	number	0.5	0 to 1	how much it hurries in the stretch before each threshold
tick	number	1700	1100 to 2800 Hz	the pitch of the tick
tock	number	900	500 to 1100 Hz	the pitch of the lower tock
spread	number	0.25	0 to 1	how far tick and tock sit left and right of each other
chime	number	0.6	0 to 1	how loud the chime on each threshold is (0 for none)
timbre	choice	glass	glass, harp, celesta	what the chime sounds like
register	integer	72	60 to 84	the lowest note of the chime (MIDI)
dropout	number	2.2	1 to 5 s	how long before a quiet threshold the ticking stops dead
tail	bool	true	–	after the limit it keeps ticking, slower and fainter, through the coda
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

film.js

elements: { 'clock-tick-tock': { tempo: 76, tightening: 0.5 } }

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