Every synth draws what it plays in a box of its own, redrawn every frame from its sound. One line
chooses how: viz(name, view:…). The box keeps its view for every voice and every later run.
| wave | viz(bass) | The oscilloscope: level across time. The default. |
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| polar | viz(bass, view:polar) | The wave wrapped round the middle of the box: angle is time,
distance is level. Chords and harmonics make rosettes. |
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| phase | viz(organ, view:phase, cycle:0.25) | The sound against itself a moment later:
ellipses, diamonds and knots, turning as voices detune. A sine is a circle at cycle:0.25. |
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| xy | viz(x1, view:xy, y:y1) | One sound across, another up, as an oscilloscope in X/Y
mode draws a stereo pair: Lissajous figures, turning slowly when the two are a little detuned. |
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| spectrum | viz(pad, view:spectrum) | Level per frequency, low on the left, on a log scale. |
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| ridge | viz(bass, view:ridge, rows:48, span:8) | The wave's recent past as stacked lines,
the newest in front, each hiding what is behind where it rises. |
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| waterfall | viz(pad, view:waterfall) | The same stack, of the spectrum. |
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| barcode | viz(pad, view:barcode, rows:96) | The spectrum as black and white bars: a column on while its band is louder than its own average. |
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| external input | adc(ch:l, uid:left) adc(ch:r, uid:right)
viz(left, view:xy, y:right) | The external audio input — a microphone, a mixer's send,
another laptop — drawn as a synth is, in any view: here a stereo input's left against its right. |
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| grid() | grid(3, 2, show:1) | 3 columns, 2 rows, drawn faint and numbered while you
lay them out; grid(4) 4 by 4, cols:[2, 1, 1] the first twice as wide, gap:0.02
space between. |
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| cell: | viz(bass, cell:4, across:3) | A box in a cell, counted along the rows from 1
(or [col, row]) — here the whole bottom row; down: spans rows. |
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| shape(n:6, sides:5, cell:free) | Each member of a cluster in an empty cell, at
random; cell:any any one. |
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| moving | grid(shuffle, trig:every(4, beat.hit)) | Everything dealt out to other cells every bar;
grid(turn) moves each one cell on. |
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| viz(lead, cell:pseq(1, 3, 2, inf), trig:beat.hit) | One box walking a path of cells
on the beat; cell:free to an empty one each time. |
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Around the scopes, the stage itself: CSS filters and blend modes, live SVG copies of the stage, and SVG
shapes and words moved on their transforms — most of their values able to follow() a sound.
| screen() | screen(kaleido:6, turn:pseq(0, 15, 30, 45, inf), trig:beat.hit) | The whole stage folded,
mirrored or tiled (kaleido, mirror, tile), as live copies of itself. |
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| screen(warp:follow(bass.low, 0, 80), split:6) | Warped as through moving water; colour
split as through a bad lens; hue, invert, contrast, blur,
pixel too. |
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| on one box | viz(bass, kaleido:6, hue:120) | Any of those on one sound's box, the rest of the
stage as it is; a shape takes the colour ones. |
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| blend | viz(pad, blend:difference) | How boxes, shapes and words mix where they overlap:
difference cuts holes, screen adds light, multiply adds ink. |
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| shape() | shape(uid:a, m:5, n1:0.3, n2:0.3, n3:0.3, morph:2) | Polygons, circles and
superformula forms — stars, flowers, cogs — morphing one into another. |
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| shape(n:12, sides:irand(3, 8), size:rand(0.03, 0.12)) | Clusters of them, each its
own; fill:scope draws a shape's own sound inside it. |
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| motion | bass > rotate(follow(bass.t, 0, 360)) | rotate(),
scale(), color(), trans() on anything drawn, stepped by patterns or
following a sound. |
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| text() | text(pick:["NOW", "DROP"], dur:0.2, trig:every(4, beat.hit), flash:white) | Words picked,
cycled or scrolled, arriving zoomed or blurred, flashed on the beat. |
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| image(), video() | image(uid:p, src:"https://…/plate.jpg", at:[0.75, 0.3], size:0.3) | Pictures
and film placed on the stage as shapes are, a folder dealt out as a slideshow (path:plates, dur:1);
viz(p, blur:2, warp:20) puts a box's effects on a picture. |
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| scatter() | s > scatter(0.4, dur:2) | A drawing's paths thrown about, and brought back
with scatter(0). |
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