snapper

• Press PLAY and Snapper writes generative 80s pop around four parts: pads, bass, keys and drums.
• Ten styles across LOUD and NIGHT bring their own tempo, sounds, chord loop, groove and drums.
• ALGORITHM picks a new song in the same style, and the same number always brings that song back.
• SEQ calls a drama: the band falls to one held chord, a tom roll swells, and the song returns a key higher.
• The keys play live over the top, snapped to the scale, with OCT- and OCT+ moving the octave.
• Pads, bass and keys each offer sixteen sounds on Felucca's engines, with Snapper's own gated drum one-shots.
• Eight sets on the SETS page hold a whole song, and settings save themselves while stopped.

Its modes

PLAY

Set BUILD, DRAMA, ENERGY and ROOM while watching the chord loop, the tension meter and the section playing.

SOUND

Choose one of sixteen sounds each for PADS, BASS and KEYS, and pick the BIG or BOX kit.

KEY

Set the root, the scale, one of twelve chord loops and how many bars a chord lasts.

GROOVE

Dial in SWING, the hat pattern, the bass line style and how often fills land.

DRUMS

Pick the kit, the kick and snare flavour and when the crash hits.

MIX

Balance the levels of the four parts.

SPACE

Set REVERB, DELAY, the delay time and the stereo WIDTH.

FORM

Turn the song form on or off and set the full band length, the number of dramas and the key up.

KEYS

Shape the riff with SPEED, RANGE, GATE and the phrase length, drawn on the panel.