Note FX

Note FX are processors that sit at the input of an instrument — they receive the raw note information (pitch + gate + velocity) coming from the keyboard, the CV/Gate inputs or the MIDI port, and reshape it before it reaches the Synthesis Machine.

Each instrument has one Note FX slot. The active Note FX is selected from the instrument page; only one can be active per instrument at a time. By default a fresh instrument loads the Note Note FX, which provides the basic per-instrument note-shaping (voice mode, scale, transpose, glide, drift) that the older "Scale quantizer" used to handle.

Antigone ships with the following Note FX:

• Note — the default. Voice mode, scale quantization, transpose, glide, drift, per-voice spread.
• Chords — turn a single input note into a chord (diatonic from a scale, or one of 26 predefined types), with inversion, drop, density, octave spread and strum.
• Arp — tempo-synced arpeggiator with 7 directions, octave range, swing, ratchet, probability and rhythm-generator-driven step patterns.
• Rhythm Gen — algorithmic step sequencer (Euclidean, Fibonacci, Golomb, Aksak, Binary, Turing, Manual) that triggers notes from rhythm patterns. Up to 16 patterns chained together per slot.

Note FX is per-instrument. Switching the Note FX on one instrument does not affect the others — each instrument keeps its own Note FX state.