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Open fifths

A bare, vast bed of drones on the root and fifth with no thirds, the beat between them widening up the ladder, an octave added each act.

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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	28	24 to 33	the lowest drone (MIDI); its root follows the chords
beat	number	0.7	0 to 2 Hz	the beating between the tones at the limit (it starts almost still, and settles in the coda)
drift	number	12	0 to 15 cents	how far the fifth drifts sharp by the limit; it settles back in the coda
darkness	number	0.5	0 to 1	how dark the drones stay: 1 keeps them dull
octaves	integer	3	1 to 3	octave layers by the last act: one is added per act
glass	bool	true	–	a high fifth on glass sounds at the limit
glassLevel	number	0.6	0 to 1	how loud the high fifth is
attack	number	3.5	1 to 8 s	how slowly the drones come in
reverb	number	0.3	0 to 1	how much goes through the hall
hush	bool	true	–	the layer stops before a quiet threshold and comes back on its hit
quietLead	number	2.4	1 to 5 s	how long before a quiet threshold it stops

film.js

elements: { 'open-fifths': { key: 'C', mode: 'major' } }

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