dorsal

It walks

• WALK: a clock. It steps on every few edges, exactly on the edge. Unpatched, it keeps a steady pace of its own.
• SIZE: how big it is. Fully left it steps on every edge, light and quick; at noon on every fourth; fully right on every sixteenth, each step seconds long, the roar slowed down eight times and the breath eight seconds.
• SIZE, the jack: its CV, added to the knob.

The plates

• FURY: how fast the city charges it, and how wild it gets. Fully left it never charges; at noon a loud, busy mix fills it in sixteen seconds; fully right in a bar, the roars tearing and the beam thrashing.
• BREATH, a lit button and its gate: it breathes out everything it has, a rushing, white-hot beam that sweeps across the city and burns through it, blown out and scorched, for as long as the charge lasts, the plates going dark from the head back. With nothing charged, nothing happens.

The roar

• THROAT, the big knob: each roar climbs from a groan up to here. Fully left it only groans; at noon it roars; fully right it shrieks.
• TUNE: a V/OCT in, the roar's note. Unpatched, SIZE sets it: the bigger, the lower.
• ROAR: a gate; it roars while the gate is high. Unpatched, it roars when the plates fill and as it starts to breathe.
• THROAT, the jack: its CV, added to the knob.

What comes out

• LEFT, RIGHT: the city as it leaves, shaken and burnt, with the giant walking through it.
• GIANT: the giant alone, its steps, roar and breath. Patched, the giant leaves LEFT and RIGHT.
• PLATES: the charge as a voltage, 0 to 8 V.
• STEP: a gate at every step.
• FULL: a gate, high while the plates are full. Patch it into BREATH and it breathes whenever it's full.

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