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Music box melody
A little celesta melody from the chord tones, repeating in every stretch like a music box, winding down and stuttering before a quiet threshold and wound up again on the hit.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| tempo | number | 76 | 56 to 104 bpm | the tempo at home |
| tighten | number | 0.4 | 0 to 1 | how much quicker the melody gets up the ladder |
| length | integer | 8 | 4 to 10 notes | notes in the melody, one bar of it |
| register | integer | 72 | 60 to 84 | the lowest note of the melody (MIDI) |
| contour | choice | arch | arch, climb, fall, wave | the shape of the melody: up and down, rising, falling or wavering |
| density | number | 0.85 | 0.5 to 1 | how many places in the melody have a note; the rest are rests |
| timbre | choice | celesta | celesta, glass, harp | what plays the melody |
| windDown | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | how much the box slows as a stretch goes on, and more before a quiet threshold |
| stutter | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | how much the notes stall and repeat as it runs down |
| dropout | number | 2.4 | 1 to 5 s | how long before a quiet threshold the box stops |
| tail | bool | true | – | after the limit the box plays on, runs down and stops 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 |
Use it in a film
film.js
elements: { 'music-box': { tempo: 76, tighten: 0.4 } }Use it from your agent
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