Presets, Settings, and the Top Bar

The top bar

Running across the top of the synth:

• PANIC — kills every sounding note. The button you reach for when a note hangs or feedback builds. No side effects; it just stops the sound.
• RAND — randomizes the patch. A fast way to stumble into something you’d never have dialed up by hand — a great starting point to then sculpt.
• Share — copies the entire current patch as a beatkitchen.io/synth#… link to your clipboard. Every parameter is in that URL.
• Paste — loads a patch from a share link on your clipboard. This is how patches travel: someone copies, you paste, and you’ve got their exact sound.
• Preset < > — steps through the cloud preset list (fetched when the synth launches). The quickest way to hear what the instrument can do.
• PARTIALS: SOLO — the mode from the partials-matrix chapter: with it on, hovering a key isolates or mutes individual partials so you can hear each one.
• lock tuning — pins just intonation to the scale root (the key) instead of letting it float to the lowest note you’re holding. Turn it on when you’re playing in a fixed key and want consistent tuning across chords.

Sharing patches

Because a whole patch fits in a link, sharing is trivial: hit Share, and the link is on your clipboard — drop it in Discord, a notes file, anywhere. To load one, copy the link and hit Paste. There’s no file to manage and nothing to install; the URL is the patch. It’s also how the preset-sharing community works — the synth’s sounds get better as people trade links.

Settings

The Settings panel holds the player-feel controls:

• Detune — a global fine detune for the whole instrument.
• Glide — portamento: how long the pitch slides from one note to the next. Off for clean playing, up for a sliding, vocal feel (especially in Mono).
• Bend Range — how many semitones the pitch wheel reaches.
• Polyphony — how many notes can sound at once (up to 64).
• Mono — collapses the synth to one voice at a time, for leads and basses where you want glide and a single-note feel.
• BPM — the tempo reference for tempo-synced rates (when not hosted in a DAW).
• Report Issue / Get Help and Copy Diagnostics to Clipboard — your line to support. If something’s wrong, Copy Diagnostics grabs the technical details to send along.

What to Practice

• Hit RAND a few times, find something you half-like, then sculpt it into a real patch.
• Share a patch to yourself, clear the synth, and Paste it back — that round trip is the whole sharing workflow.
• Turn on Mono and add some Glide for a sliding lead, then switch back to poly for chords.