Note length

Note length gives each note a new length: as you played it and stretched, a fixed time, or a
note value on the tempo. It can make low keys last longer than high ones, strike notes when you
release the keys, or hold a chord until you play the next one. It never changes which key plays.

It is a MIDI effect: it sits in an Orbiter's chain before the instrument, after the generator if
there is one, so an arpeggio can be clipped short or stretched into a pad.

Loads neutral

Note length loads as played, Gate at 100 %: every note passes exactly as it came, so adding it changes
nothing until you move something.

Length

Control	What it does
1Length	Played: each note keeps the length you played. Time: every note lasts the same time, 1 ms to 4 s, however long you hold the key. Sync: every note lasts a note value on the Orbiter's tempo, from 1/2 to 1/32, dotted and triplet ones included.
2Time	The time, or the note value.
3Gate	A share of that length: 50 % halves it, 200 % doubles it. With Played, Gate over 100 % lets the note ring on after the key-up.

Each note keeps the rules it started with: turning a knob, or changing the tempo, acts from the next
note. Note length works with the transport stopped too. No note lasts more than 60 s.

Shape

Control	What it does
4Key scale	Time and Sync: low keys longer (+) or shorter (−). At +100 %, a note two octaves under C3 lasts twice as long, two octaves over it half as long.
5Decay	Key up only: the longer you held a key, the quieter its note. Held for Decay or longer, it stays silent. At the top, ∞, every note keeps the velocity you played.

Trigger

Control	What it does
6Trigger	Down (as it loads): a note sounds as its key goes down. Up: a note sounds when you release its key, an organ's release click or a pluck on the way up; its length is the time or note value you set, or with Played, the time you held it × Gate.
7Latch	Down only: notes keep sounding after you let go, until you start a new chord. Keys you add while one is held join the chord. Turning Latch off, switching to Up, bypassing the module, stopping or seeking the transport, or the panic button releases them.

Controls a setting does not use are dimmed.

The screen

8Lengths. One row per note. The dashed outline is the note as you played it; the solid bar inside it is the
note that comes out, lit while it sounds. With nothing playing, three example notes held a sixteenth,
one beat and two beats show how the settings treat each. While you play, the four newest notes scroll
past, newest on top, with now three quarters of the way across.

With Up, the bar starts where the outline ends. A note too quiet after Decay is a ring with a
slash. A latched or still-open note fades out at the right edge.

The corners

The four captions above and below the picture are controls: Length (top left), Time (top
right: a note value or milliseconds, whichever Length uses; just a reading while Length is As
played), Gate (bottom left) and Decay (bottom right). Drag one up or down; the thin bar under
each caption shows where it stands, and a double-click puts a number back to its default.

Try it

A staccato arpeggio. After an Arpeggiator: Length Sync, 1/16, Gate 50 %. Every note is clipped to half a sixteenth.
A pad out of short notes. Length Time, 2 s, in front of a slow synth: tapped keys ring on and overlap.
Hold a chord while your hands move. Trigger Down, Latch on: play a chord, let go, and it sounds until you play the next one.
A pluck on the way up. Trigger Up, Length Time, 120 ms: each note sounds as you release its key.

Mapping

Axes can drive Time (milliseconds or the note value), Gate, Key
scale and Decay: from clipped to sustained in one move. Toggles can flip Trigger and
Latch.

In a room

Every player's device in a room makes the lengths from the notes it hears. Latch counts every player's keys:
while one player holds a key, another's notes join the chord.

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