Movements

A section of a Composition - usually a fully realised track. A familiar DAW project layout with some unique features.

A movement has a tempo, a time signature and a set of lanes. Each lane is one part, and owns three things: a phrase (the notes), a note rack (what happens to the notes before they reach an instrument), and a device rack (the instrument and effects). Clips place a phrase on the lane's timeline and choose which of the phrase's variations plays.

A phrase is built from Cards: a Card is a series of note lanes with generative functions, and a phrase walks a sequence of them so a progression is a change of card rather than a rewrite of the notes. A Variation is one complete card progression, and a phrase can hold several. A timeline clip is a chosen Variation. Variations share the phrase's seed, so a fresh one sounds identical until you edit it. More information can be found on the phrases page.

The movement workspace: lanes with clips on a timeline, a group lane, and the rulers above — The movement timeline. Lanes hold clips; the rulers above carry bars, tempo and the Disruptor.

The Mixer

As well as standard channels, nested groups are also supported. A group allows its members to route their output through the group's own rack and fader. Send buses are shared effects racks that lanes send an amount to, pre or post fader, with bus-to-bus sends allowed, including feedback routing.

The movement mixer: lane strips, send bus strips and the master — The mixer pane, with send strips and the master beside the lanes.

One screen or multiple windows

The workspace has the timeline on top and either the Pattern editor (the piano roll) or the mixer below it. Racks open as popovers anchored to the lane, bus or master that owns them, and any rack or pane can pop out into its own window for use with multiple or larger displays.