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Orchestral stab on the hit
A short, loud, full chord of strings and choir on each threshold, voiced wide with a drum under it, and an optional answering stab an octave up.
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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 | 45 | 36 to 60 | the lowest note of the chord (MIDI) |
| width | integer | 24 | 14 to 36 | how wide the chord is voiced, in semitones |
| weight | number | 0.7 | 0 to 1 | how loud the drum under the chord is |
| tone | choice | bow | bow, soft, glassy | the strings' bite: full bow, soft or thin and glassy |
| choir | number | 0.6 | 0 to 1 | how much choir sits in the chord |
| answer | bool | true | – | a quieter stab an octave up answers after a beat |
| beat | number | 0.65 | 0.4 to 1.2 s | how long after the chord the answer comes |
| release | number | 0.4 | 0.2 to 0.8 s | how long the chord rings after it is struck |
| send | number | 0.25 | 0.05 to 0.6 | how much of the stab goes through the hall |
Use it in a film
film.js
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