AISLING

Cheat sheet · v0.1 · by CU_STE · www.stephen8n.com

The controls


White keys	Play the Lead (the flute), in the piece's scale (the key it sounds is lit)
Black keys	Eleven effects, each while held (lit; dark while held): Ceo, Macalla, Fras, Repeat, Shimmer, Freeze, Octave, Return, then Rise, Close, Transpose (in PERFORM: the solos)
PLAY · REC · EDIT	Play / rest · a tap: hold (the echo repeats what it holds), held: the effects grid (16 effects on the white keys) · a tap: the Chords page, held: the next chord
SEL	PERFORM: the knobs Filter, Wet, Energy, Sweep; white 1–5 mute the Drone, Sequence, Lead, Sequence 2, Atmosphere; black 1–5 solo them; white 6 held: the levels; white 7–11 held: Sweep, Open, Shut, Drop (both sequences out), Echo; the top key (G): the Lead forgets its ideas and its theme. Held: Lock
HOME	The Aisling page (Filter, Evolve, Motion, Drift); again, the Key page (Tempo, Root, Mode, Transpose)
ENV	The Drone (Pedal, Reso, Phaser, Attack); again, its sound (Colour, Release, Reverb, Echo); again, its Move page (Width, Time, Rate, Intro)
ARP	The Sequence (Density, Octave, Length, Grid); again, its sound (Cutoff, Decay, Reverb, Echo); again, its Repeats (Repeat A, A time, Repeat B, B time); again, its Move page
LFO	The Lead (Phrases, Octave, Glide, Vibrato); again, its sound (Tone, Attack, Reverb, Echo); again, its Move page
SEQ	Sequence 2 (Chance, Octave, Length, Level); again, its sound; again, the Pattern page (write the steps on the keys); again, its Move page
SAVE	The Atmosphere (Density, Width, Drift, Air); again, its sound (Colour, Ring, Reverb, Echo); again, its Move page
FX	Space (Echo, Echo time, Feedback, Reverb); again, the Echo page (Blur, Tone, Width, Size)
GLO	Setup (Tune, MIDI out, Lights, Save); again, the Arc (Lead in, Bridge, Arc, Memory). Held: save; held on: the piece back to its recipe
ALGORITHM	On a layer's page, its voice (the Atmosphere: its character)
PRESETS	The piece
SELECT	On a layer's pages, its level; on the Aisling page, Energy (elsewhere nothing)
OCT− / OCT+	On the Sequence's, the Lead's and Sequence 2's pages, its octave (lit while it's above or below where the piece was loaded)

The pieces

#	Piece	Named for	Key, tempo	What you hear
1	Skellig	Skellig Michael, off Kerry	D minor, 76	An organ drone, one harp in a jig's threes, the surf; Dm and C in turn
2	Burren	The Burren, Clare	G major, 84	A choir, two harps of 12 and 11 drifting apart, the wind
3	Aran	Inis Mór	A Dorian, 96	A reed drone, a jig's 12 over a slip jig's 9, a turf fire's crackle; Am and G in turn
4	Carolan	Turlough O'Carolan, the harper	D major, 88	Strings, two harps of 16 and 15, rain, a planxty's chords
5	Blasket	The Blasket Islands, Kerry	E Dorian, 70	A choir, slow harps, the flute's slow air over the surf; Em and D in turn
6	Samhain	The year's dark turn	B minor, 64	A low, beating organ, one low harp, a low flute, the wind
7	Connemara	Bog, lake and rain	G hexatonic minor, 92	An organ, a slip jig's 9 over 8, rain; Gm and F in turn
8	Tir na nOg	The land of the young, over the western sea	D hexatonic major, 80	A phased glass drone, two harps, a long reverb; D and G in turn