Penumbra

• Five drone voices sit on the first black keys, each latched or swelling, thickened by a SWARM control.
• The white keys play VOX, a four-voice synth locked to the scene's key with four sounds: GLASS, REED, HALO and LOW.
• A deep kick tuned to the key and BLOOM, a slow swell, sit on their own black keys.
• The looper records VOX, the kick and BLOOM in up to eight layers over sixteen bars, with undo and half or double speed.
• Loops keep their notes as scale degrees, so the same tune plays on when you move to another scene.
• Hold FX to throw shimmer, feedback, reverb freeze or a filter dip, and hold a white key to bend a note.
• PRESET glides to the next scene over twelve seconds, while SELECT morphs toward it by hand.
• Saving happens by itself after the sound goes quiet, keeping the journey, its sound, its loop and the settings.

Its modes

HOME

Shows the corona, scene line, looper line and tempo, with four macro knobs for DRONE, VOX, SPACE and TONE.

SHAPE

Shapes each part of the sound across DRONE, VOX, VOX 2, VOX 3, PULSE and TEXTURE pages.

FX

Sets the shimmer reverb and the worn tape delay row by row.

SCENE

Edits a scene's key, scale, drone root, voicing, VOX settings, space and wind, and stores the moment as a new scene.

JOURNEY

Lists the six preset banks and eight user slots so you can open one or save your own.

SYSTEM

Holds MIDI clock, VOX MIDI channel, core, output, USB audio, bend range, SLEEP and sound reset settings.

BENCH

Shows what each part of the sound costs the processor and runs a load test.