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Acid synth

The ACID track is a classic acid-box inspired monosynth: saw / square oscillator → 4-pole tanh-saturated ladder filter (in an AudioWorklet) → tanh waveshaper drive → amp envelope. Includes accent and acid-style slide.

Knobs

  • Waveform — saw or square.
  • Cutoff — base filter frequency (50–5000 Hz, hardware ceiling ~6 kHz).
  • Reso — Q (0–25). Beyond ~22 it self-oscillates.
  • EnvMod — how much the envelope opens the cutoff on each note.
  • EnvDecay — speed of the cutoff envelope (0.05–2 s). The classic squelch knob.
  • Accent — global accent intensity. Per-step accent in the inspector scales this.
  • Drive — pre-filter saturation (saw warmth).
  • AmpDecay — how long each note rings (0.05–1.5 s).
  • Tuning — fixed semitone offset (±12).
  • Base note — default MIDI note when a step has no per-step note (default 36 = C1).

Slide

Activate Slide on a step (the cyan S badge) and the 303 glides pitch from the previous note instead of retriggering the envelope. Pair with accent for that unmistakeable acid burble.

TipPitch-bend wheels on a connected MIDI keyboard affect held 303 voices in real time, not just newly-triggered ones. ±2 semitones default range.

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