Audio node
Scatter
Rhythm-free events — for anything that should not sit on a grid. Poisson: single events at a mean Rate. Clusters: one hit or a quick handful, then a rest. Call & Response: Terremoti Vulcana's conversation — a call (a swell, a phrase of words, ticks), an echo by another voice, sometimes a third in the gaps, the harmony replying on the call's rhythm, then a listening rest. A Motifs family sings envelopes on Gate 1–3 (cable into a Texture Synth's Gate); a Phrases family sings notes walking the Chord on its beat (Interval). Scatter nodes with the same Group share one conversation. Notes and Reply are 128-bin note streams for any synth; deterministic with Seed.
Inputs
| Port | Type | Default |
|---|---|---|
| EnableOff stops the events and leaves the conversation; on again starts over. | bool | true |
| ModePoisson: single events at a mean rate. Clusters: a hit or a quick handful, then a rest. Call & Response: calls, echoes and replies in turns. | int | 2 |
| ChordA note stream (Modal Harmony's Chord Tones, a chord, a scale) or a list of MIDI notes. The events walk it. Nothing cabled: C major. | float | — |
| OctaveMoves Notes by octaves (−4…4). | int | 0 |
| RateEvents (Poisson) or clusters (Clusters) per second, on average. | float | 1 |
| ClusterThe most hits in one cluster (1–16). Each cluster has 1 up to this many. | int | 4 |
| GapSeconds between hits in a cluster, varied ±50 %. | float | 0.1 |
| LengthSeconds each event's note and gate stay on. | float | 0.15 |
| KindMotifs: each voice sings an envelope (Gate 1–3) — swells, word phrases, ticks. Phrases: notes on the beat walking the Chord, a question answered by its inversion. | int | 0 |
| IntervalSeconds per beat of a phrase. Crickets: 60 / (7.2 × °C − 32) — Dolbear's law. | float | 0.5 |
| SpeakMay this family take a turn now? Off: it waits; the others carry the conversation. | bool | true |
| Level0–1 presence: the louder the chorus, the shorter the rests between exchanges (the loudest member counts). | float | 1 |
| GroupScatter nodes with the same Group share ONE conversation and answer one another. Empty: this node talks to itself. | string | |
| SeatOrder of the members in a Group (lowest first). With two families, the first calls half the time when both may speak. | int | 0 |
| Tutti EveryEvery n-th exchange all three voices of this family swell together and stop as one (0 = never). Terremoti's cicadas: 5. | int | 0 |
| Reply OctaveMoves the Reply notes (the harmony's answer) by octaves (−4…4). | int | 0 |
| Seed0 = the default stream (Terremoti's, in Call & Response). Any other number: another, equally repeatable stream. A Group takes the seed of the member that started it. | int | 0 |
| Time Scale1 = real time; larger runs the events faster. A Group runs at its fastest member's scale. | float | 1 |
| RestartA rising edge starts the events — or the whole Group's conversation — from the beginning. | bool | false |
Outputs
| Port | Type |
|---|---|
| Gate | float |
| Gate 1 | float |
| Gate 2 | float |
| Gate 3 | float |
| Trigger | bool |
| Notes | float |
| Reply | float |
| Reply Trigger | bool |
| Voice | int |
| Turns | int |
| Speaking | bool |
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