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Solo strings elegy
A solo strings phrase stated at home, heard in fragments up the ladder, and sung whole, slower and lower, in the coda, ending on the tonic under the end card.
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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 |
| register | integer | 60 | 52 to 72 | the phrase's tonic (MIDI) |
| phrase | integer | 5 | 3 to 7 | notes in the phrase |
| contour | choice | arch | arch, rise, fall, wave | the phrase's shape |
| pace | number | 1.1 | 0.6 to 2 s | seconds a note takes at home |
| slower | number | 1.6 | 1 to 2.2 | how much slower the coda sings it |
| lower | bool | true | – | the coda sings an octave lower |
| fragments | bool | true | – | pieces of the phrase come back after the hits in the ladder |
| cutoff | number | 1800 | 600 to 4000 Hz | how bright the strings are |
| send | number | 0.5 | 0.1 to 0.9 | how much of the line goes through the hall |
Use it in a film
film.js
elements: { 'elegy-line': { key: 'C', mode: 'major' } }Use it from your agent
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