Computer Music

Fracture and Flow

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The Flow and Fracture systems in PulseCode serve users with cyclical and manually controlled modulation.

Flow is essentiall­y a per-engine hostsynced LFO for modulating Amplitude, Decay and Pan, cycling over 1-16 steps and triggered by pattern start or Accent steps. The Phase of the wave is tweakable, random deviation can be dialled in, and each engine is assignable to Modwheel by raising its individual Amount setting in the MIDI tab.

Fracture control is a real-time fill generator that randomly messes with the Pitch and Step triggers of its host engine, snapping back to centre when released unless Latch mode is on. Pushed right, the pattern gets busier and pitchshift­ing is generally upwards; pushed left, the sequence thins and pitch changes mostly downwards. Pitch and Step modulation depths are adjustable, and the Pitch wheel is variably assignable to multiple Fracture controls for hands-on performanc­e.

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