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Ephemera · Instrument

Mantle

seismic sub-bass instrument
voices 0
Tuning · Input
Octave -2 (Z/X) · A–; play · Space = sustain
Rupture
Load the fault and let it slip: energy, brittleness, depth — plus a click for attack bite, an aftershock echo, and a foreshock build.
Magnitude
0.70
Rupture
0.45
Depth
0.50
Click
off
Aftershock
off
Foreshock
off
Voice
The amp envelope + how the keys play: velocity response, voice allocation, and glide between notes.
6 ms220 ms · 0.65360 msADSR
Mono — one voice; overlap notes to retrigger.
Seismic Motion
Make the ground live: a quaking tremor, stressed-rock creak, and a booming attack pitch-drop. All start off — dial them in.
Quake
off
Rate
4.0 Hz
Creak
off
Boom
off
Modes · Body
The ringing normal modes and the felt sub: how many ring, how long, how harmonic, and how far the boom rolls.
Modes
3
Decay
0.55
Strata
0.15
Dispersion
0.20
Sub
0.60
Output
Saturation glues the sub to the body and tames peaks; the master low-pass sets the top before the limiter.
Drive
bypass
Tone
open
Gain
0.60
C1
D1
E1
F1
G1
A1
B1
AC2
SD2
DE2
FF2
GG2
HA2
JB2
KC3
LD3
;E3
'F3
IG3
[A3
]B3
C4
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