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Heard from under the sea
The sea heard from below: a muffled low hum with a slow beat on the key, slow pressure swells, small rising bubble trails, and a distant groan on each threshold.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| depth | number | 0.6 | 0 to 1 | how deep we are: lower, darker, more muffled at 1 |
| hum | integer | 40 | 33 to 48 | the pitch of the hum (MIDI), moved to the nearest root of the key |
| beat | number | 0.25 | 0.05 to 0.8 Hz | how fast the hum slowly beats |
| swell | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | how much slow pressure swells come and go |
| bubbles | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | how often a little trail of bubbles rises (0 none) |
| groan | number | 0.7 | 0 to 1 | how loud the distant groan on each threshold is (0 none) |
| width | number | 0.8 | 0.25 to 1 | how widely the swells and bubbles spread left and right |
| where | choice | all | all, ladder | from home on, or only from the first stretch of the ladder to the coda |
| hush | bool | true | – | it stops before a quiet threshold and comes back on its hit |
| quietLead | number | 2.5 | 1 to 6 s | how long before a quiet threshold it stops |
| 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 bubble trails climb |
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film.js
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