Music

Five moods, from the hall to the fight: Hearth (safe among people), Travel (the open road), Omen (something strange), Myth (it's near, the slow build) and Fight. Tap one to play it; tap the playing one to pause. Each is a few long, quiet tracks that carry on where they left off. Skip (⏭ or N) moves to the next track; tap the track's name to pick from the list.

Moments (6–9): Wonder, Sorrow and Ceremony play until you tap them again, Glory plays once. Then the mood that was playing comes back.

Ambience

Every loop is on one page, in the book's order: land, road, weather, water, life, places, the mythic. Tap as many as the scene needs, say Riding, Forest and Drizzle; drag sideways on one to set its level. All off clears them for a new scene. Board size in Settings sets how many show.

Sounds, and whose Omen it is

Tap a sound to play it; tap a long one again to stop it. Under the Omen mood, Omen of chooses whose Omen it is: Any Myth, or one of the realm's six. That changes the Omen music and puts that Myth's own four sounds first; nothing else changes. Space plays the Myth as near as the mood says: far off in Travel and Omen, close but unseen in Myth, here in a Fight; in Hearth it plays the gate.

• 1–5 moods · 6–9 Moments · N skip
• QWER ASD the first sounds · Space the Myth
• Esc fade · X cut · F full screen

Prep changes the board: swap, add or reorder sounds and loops, rename moods, edit playlists. Discord plays the console into a voice channel. Settings holds copyright-free music only, board size, offline and install.

Scenes

The first scene starts by itself when you begin. Press a scene to make it the music. Only one scene plays at a time, and switching crossfades. Returning to a scene picks up where it left off.

To pause, press the playing scene again or turn its intensity all the way down. Press it again, or turn the intensity back up, and it resumes where it stopped.

Each scene has four intensity bands, from calm to extreme, each with its own playlist; crossing a band blends into that band's playlist over a few seconds. In a mystery or horror scene a higher band is more suspenseful, not louder or faster; in Combat and Chase it is more action. Each playlist carries on from where you left it, so a long session doesn't hear the same piece twice. Intensity also nudges volume, from 20% quieter at its lowest to 20% louder at its highest. You can set a scene's intensity before you switch to it. Where a phone shows dials, swipe sideways across one to turn it; swiping up or down scrolls the page.

Skip (the ⏭ beside a scene's track, or N) moves that band on to its next track. Tap the track's name to see the band's whole playlist and play any track in it. A Track picker scene (choose it in Prep) shows its playlist right on the tile, for the pieces you want on cue.

Keys

• 1–5 switch scene · the playing one pauses
• ↑ ↓ turn the live scene's intensity · N skip its track
• T hold to transmit
• QWER ASD fire the stingers, in board order
• Space the sound action, on themes that have one
• Esc fade out · X cut · F full screen
• V next theme · Shift+V the one before