Welcome. This manual explains everything in Kiwisynth. If you are new to
Read guide →Simple Mode is the easier way to use Kiwisynth. It hides the knobs and the
Read guide →The audition lets Kiwisynth play itself, so you can hear a sound, and change
Read guide →The oscillator is the part of a synthesizer that makes the raw sound. Before
Read guide →This page does two jobs. The filter shapes the tone of the sound. The amp
Read guide →The Effects page holds the effects that colour and finish the sound. There are
Read guide →This page covers the amp envelope, the two modulation envelopes, and the MSEG
Read guide →An LFO, a low frequency oscillator, is a source of steady, repeating movement.
Read guide →Modulation is movement: a filter that opens while you hold a note, a pitch
Read guide →Most living patches move over a single note. The sound starts one way, and by
Read guide →Breath is a per-note humanizer. It adds the small, correlated movements that a
Read guide →The Chord page turns one key press into a stack of notes. It sits on the
Read guide →The arpeggiator turns the notes you hold into a rhythmic pattern. Hold a chord
Read guide →The Perform page holds everything that happens to a note before it becomes
Read guide →This page covers the controls that affect how Kiwisynth responds as you play:
Read guide →A preset is a complete saved sound. Loading a preset sets every control in
Read guide →The Script page is for things the rest of the synth cannot do. A script
Read guide →A script reacts to events. Each event has its own handler, written as
Read guide →A cookbook. Every entry on this page is one of the sample scripts that ship
Read guide →A single oscillator makes a thin sound. Most rich patches are several sound
Read guide →A sound that never changes sounds synthetic. The difference between a flat patch
Read guide →The effects are where a sound is finished: placed in a space, given warmth, and
Read guide →Loading a preset shows you a finished sound. Building one teaches you the
Read guide →A bass holds down the low end of a track. It is low in pitch, solid, and usually
Read guide →A lead carries the melody. It sits on top of a track, so it needs presence to cut
Read guide →A pad is a slow, sustained bed of sound that fills the space behind a track. It
Read guide →A pluck is a short, percussive note with a sharp attack and a quick decay. It is
Read guide →Keys means electric pianos, organs and bell-like keyboards. They are played in
Read guide →A texture is more atmosphere than note: a shifting background, a drone, a bed of
Read guide →An FX sound is not an instrument. It is a gesture: a riser that lifts into a drop,
Read guide →The instrument guides build one kind of sound: a bass, a pad, a pluck. The pages
Read guide →Trance is not a preset category but a style: the wide, bright, endlessly sustaining
Read guide →The sound of 1980s synth pop and its modern revival. It is a bright, wide,
Read guide →A stab is a chord that stops. It is the sound of early 1990s rave and everything
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