Tessera

• Each of the four tracks plays its own steps, an arpeggio, or one of thirteen generators.
• The generators include TURING, EUCLID, MARKOV, MORPH, ATLAS, BOUNCE, AWAKE, POLY, QUAD, CONSTL, SERIES, CHORD and ANSWER.
• Four engines sit on the device: six-operator FM6, the two-oscillator ORACLE, three-oscillator TRIO and DRUM with 808 and 909 kits.
• The step sequencer gives you per step ratchets, nudges, conditions and a pitch accumulator that climbs each pass.
• Hold REC on a generator track to print its last bars into ordinary steps you can edit.
• One key and scale cover the project, and a CHORD track plays a progression the other tracks snap to with QNT CHRD.
• A project saves everything in one slot: patterns, sounds, seeds, sections, energy and cords.

Its modes

GEN

KNOB 1 picks the track's MODE: STEP, ARP or one of thirteen generators, with three generator settings beside it.

EVOLVE

Mutates a generator's phrase every few bars, or varies steps you wrote as they play, with LOCK, EVERY, AMOUNT and the ROLL seed.

FORM

Strings mutated phrases into sections A, B and C in orders such as AABA, with contrast and a flourish.

TWEAK

Transposes, drops hits, humanises velocity and length, or follows another track's pitch.

TWEAK 2

Branches hits onto another track's sound, combines tracks with logic, and plays only on certain bars.

LENGTH

Sets how long a generator holds its notes: the step's gate, a fixed length, or until the next hit.

TIMING

Ratchets a step up to eight times in even, accelerating or decelerating hits, and plays each step a little late.

ENERGY

Shapes the whole project over minutes with a slow tide, rests and a level you set by hand.

MODS

Patches up to sixteen cords from any source on any track to any destination.

MATRIX

Shows the cords as a four by four grid of source track against destination track.