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Drum roll into the hit
A roll of kicks and snare hits that speeds up and swells into each threshold, longer and denser up the ladder.
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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 |
| lead | number | 6 | 2 to 9 s | how long the roll is at the top of the ladder |
| density | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | how many beats the roll holds and how fast it ends |
| weight | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | how heavy the drums are |
| pitch | integer | 34 | 28 to 44 | the drums' note (MIDI), moved to the chord's root |
| kind | choice | both | drum, snare, both | what rolls: tuned kicks, small bright snare hits or both in turn |
| swell | number | 1.2 | 0.5 to 2 | how steeply the roll gets louder |
| send | number | 0.2 | 0 to 0.6 | how much of the roll goes through the hall |
Use it in a film
film.js
elements: { 'drum-roll': { key: 'C', mode: 'major' } }Use it from your agent
Ask your agent to put it in a film. It finds the element by name.