Voice

The Voice panel sits below every tab. It sets how each note starts, holds, slides and spreads, with one picture per control that you drag directly. Double-click a picture to put its control back where the Demo patch has it.

Punch

A drop in pitch into the start of each note, not a click in level. The picture shows the pitch falling onto the note. Drag its corner up for a deeper drop and right for a slower one. The readout gives the depth in semitones and the time in milliseconds.

Turned down, notes start on pitch. Turned up, they drop into place from above. Velocity scales it: a soft note punches less.

Shape

How a held note's level moves, from pluck to swell, along one law. The picture shows one held note and its release.

Drag sideways: left is a pluck that decays, right a swell that grows into the note. The Arc moves this over the phrase.

Drag down to add pluck: the layer above the sub decays while the sub keeps sounding under it, so the note starts bright and settles into a clean low end. The picture then shows the sub's line under the layer's. The readout gives Shape, and the pluck when there is some.

Glide

How long a slide from one note to the next takes. The picture is a slide between two pitches, with the handle where it is most of the way there. Drag it sideways. The readout gives the time in milliseconds.

A glide needs overlapping notes: it happens only when a note is still held as the next one starts. See Playing it.

Legato, the switch below, decides what an overlap does. On, overlapping notes tie: no new attack, and the pitch slides by the Glide time. Off, every note is struck anew and lands on its pitch.

Spread

Detune and stereo width, on the layer above the sub only. The picture shows the sound from left to right: the sub in the middle, where it stays whatever Spread does, and the two voices of the layer above it standing apart. Click or drag where the voices should stand. They pulse against each other at the detune rate, shown in Hz in the readout.

At zero the output is exactly mono and the readout says mono. Turned up, the layer above the sub widens and beats slowly against itself. Because the sub never widens, Spread cannot thin out the low end.