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Strings gliding up to the hit
A legato strings line glides up through the arriving chord's tones into each hit, longer and higher up the ladder; two lines in contrary motion at the limit.
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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 | 3 to 9 s | how long the glide is at the top of the ladder |
| span | number | 1.5 | 1 to 3 octaves | how far the glide climbs at the top of the ladder |
| glide | number | 0.55 | 0.1 to 0.6 | how smoothly one note slides into the next |
| register | integer | 57 | 48 to 72 | where the glide starts at the first hit (MIDI) |
| climb | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | how much higher the glides start up the ladder |
| bright | number | 2200 | 600 to 5000 Hz | how bright the strings are |
| send | number | 0.35 | 0.05 to 0.8 | how much of the strings goes through the hall |
Use it in a film
film.js
elements: { 'string-glissando': { key: 'C', mode: 'major' } }Use it from your agent
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