8 voice generative sound synthesizer
Glintbox
Randomly triggered voices produce shifting notes, chords, and textures. Shape the relationship between the voices with shift and spread, then push the result through distortion, reverb, and musical scale modes.
Eight independent voices
Each voice owns its own pitch. The synth keeps moving because the voices are triggered randomly instead of being sequenced in a fixed grid.
Shift, spread, scale
Shift and spread tune the relationships between voices, while mode selects the musical scale. It can drift into soft tonal clusters or become noisy and abstract.
Built-in color
Distortion and reverb give the instrument enough pressure and space to stand alone, from brittle fragments to mellow, slow-moving tones.
How to use
Controls
Glintbox has eight voices. The voices are triggered by an internal random clock. Each trigger starts one voice envelope. Turn a knob clockwise to increase its value.
Start with Level around the middle, Density low, Rise low, and Fall around the middle. Then adjust Mode, Shift, and Spread for pitch behavior.
| Rise | Attack time for each triggered voice. Low values start immediately. Higher values fade in more slowly. |
|---|---|
| Fall | Decay time for each voice. Low values make short hits. Higher values make longer tones and more overlap. |
| Density | How often new voice triggers happen. Low values are sparse. Higher values trigger more often. |
| Mode | Selects one of five pitch modes. The mode changes the scale or note set used by the voices. |
| Sparkle | Distortion amount. Higher values add more saturation and fade in more of the distorted signal. |
| Shift | Moves the pitch set. Use it to transpose or offset the relationship between the voices. |
| Flutter | Adds pitch modulation. Higher values make the voices move around more. |
| Level | Output volume. |
| Spread | Controls the distance between voice pitches. Low values keep pitches closer together. Higher values spread them further apart. |
| Space | Reverb amount. Higher values make the output wetter and larger. |
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