CINCO

• Four identities cover analog brass, phase distortion keys, six operator FM bass and a formant robotic singing voice.
• Turn PRESET to pick an identity and play it across the 27 capacitive keys, with OCT- and OCT+ transposing six octaves.
• PLAY starts a 16-step Eurodance drum machine, K3 sets tempo from 80 to 160 BPM and K4 balances lead against rhythm.
• K1 drives the 4d3d3d3 macro, pushing filter resonance and stereo chorus while cascading dancer windows across the display.
• LFO latches Hat Wobble vibrato and ARP latches a fast arpeggiator and slicer, and these layers stack together.
• FX engages Nude Tayne for crunchy bitcrushed audio, with K2 setting sample rate reduction and censor tile size.
• SAVE commits all knob positions, the active character and octave transpose to flash, with an animated Oyster receipt.
• HOME clears every performance layer at once, GLO speaks the corporate replies, and USB-C connects the console to your computer.

Its modes

Paul's Computer OS 2.5

The main desktop view with the dancer window, status terminal and a taskbar showing octave, tempo and the coffee meter.

Talk Mode

Plays a melodic robotic singing voice chromatically across the 27 keys.

Hat Wobble

Latches a pitch vibrato on the synth voices and swaps in Tayne's hat wobble dance.

Flarhgunnstow

Runs a fast sixteenth note ratcheting arpeggiator with a rhythmic amplitude slicer and the flail animation.

Nude Tayne

Crushes the audio to lo-fi and mosaic censors the dancer after you confirm the warning dialog.

Lotus 1-2-3 Boss Key

Hides the desktop behind a spreadsheet screen while the music keeps running.

Cinco Disk Defragmenter

Shows a cluster grid where flashing blocks pulse with the live drum steps.

Cinco After Dark

Drops into a flying celery screensaver after twenty seconds without input, waking on any control.