Night Bus Home
Slow, low and a little sleepy. Soft triangle notes wander around D minor while a long echo keeps the window fogged. Best played with the lights down.
Phrase: "last bus home"
Channel 02 / Presets
Mixtapes
Eight loops, ready to play. Each one is only a phrase, a scale, a tempo and a voice, so nothing is hidden and everything is remixable.
Pick a tape and press Preview. The tiny bars show which of the sixteen steps are sounding.
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Corner Store Neon
A buzzing square wave over a minor pentatonic scale. There are no wrong notes in this key, which is exactly the point. Sounds like an OPEN sign humming in the rain.
Phrase: "open all night"
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Sunday Dishes
Warm sine tones in C major pentatonic, stretched over an easy tempo. Gentle by design: nothing sharp, nothing rushing. Good for dishes and for dozing.
Phrase: "warm water slow hands"
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Static Bloom
Phrygian is the scale with the tense second note, and a sawtooth wave makes it bite. Brisk and a bit grainy, like tuning past a station that almost comes in.
Phrase: "radio between stations"
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Tiny Arcade
Plain major scale, bright square wave, fast tempo and barely any echo. A chiptune-flavoured loop that wants quarters it is never going to get.
Phrase: "insert coin"
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Glass Elevator
Lydian lifts the fourth note, and the whole loop feels like floating upward. Triangle voice, medium tempo, generous echo. Press the top-floor button.
Phrase: "going up"
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Blue Hour Walk
A blues scale on a saw wave with a dry, tight echo. The flattened notes lean on each other the way blue notes do. Mid tempo, plenty of swagger.
Phrase: "after the rain"
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Orbit Lab
A whole-tone scale has no home note and no pull toward resolution, so the loop just drifts. Slow sine waves, deep echo. Count down, then do not land.
Phrase: "ten seconds to orbit"
No tapes match that tempo band. Press All to see the whole shelf.
Liner notes
How to read a tape
A mixtape here is not a recording. It is a recipe. Press Preview and the page cooks the melody live from the recipe, which is why the whole shelf weighs almost nothing.
The recipe
Every tape stores five things: a phrase, a root note and scale, a waveform, a tempo and an echo amount. The phrase is hashed into a seed, the seed rolls the sixteen gates and pitch moves, and the scale decides which notes are allowed. Change any one ingredient and the loop changes with it.
The tiny bars
The strip of sixteen bars on each card is the pattern at a glance. Tall bars are high notes, short bars are low ones, and a dark, flat sliver is a rest. They are drawn from the same code that plays the sound, so what you see is what you hear.
Tempo bands
Slow tapes sit under 95 BPM, medium tapes run from 95 to 119, and fast tapes start at 120. The bands only exist to help you filter. Tempo is a knob in the studio, so any tape can be slowed to a crawl or pushed past its limit.
Make it yours
Press Open in studio and the tape loads with its settings. Flip a few pads, swap the waveform, try a different scale. If you land on something you like, write down the phrase and settings. Phrases are the cheapest save format ever invented.