Reveal Chord Swell

How it's made

Source

a section of ensemble strings or soft synth-brass sustaining a major chord. Every chord tone is three band-limited saws (centre and +-few cents) with slow independent pitch drift, which gives the chorused ensemble width. A quiet pink-noise breath supplies bow and air, and a bed of sines on the chord's upper octaves forms the bloom.

Body

a low-pass opens from a dark, muffled chord to a bright, open one as the swell rises (the spectrum moves, not only the level) and relaxes during the tail. The chord tones enter in a quick upward spread, root first, so the chord blooms outward; the upper-octave sines enter late and ring longest, which leaves the tail pure and open instead of cut off.

Envelope

an accelerating crescendo from near silence to the peak at `swell` seconds, then an exponential release of `tail` seconds with the highs falling away first. No transient and no abrupt stop.

Variation

root pitch, chord colour (major triad, add9, major 7th, open voicing), swell and tail times, brightness and stereo width; `rng` shifts every detune, drift phase and the noise.

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