juggle by daylight noise

The JUGGLE panel: black, covered in small gold figures flung through the air at every angle, mirrored about the middle, with a gauge of short bare circuit-board rungs on each side between the columns of parts. ONE and TWO jacks at the top corners with their lit buttons under them, a card slot under the name, CLEAR's black button and jack and the DROP jack down the middle above a yellow RCA socket, WHO, HEIGHT and CV jacks in the columns either side, and HANG, STICK, FLICKER, SPREAD, COLOUR and BREAK knobs down the sides. juggle at the top, daylight noise at the bottom.

Turn a knob: drag it or tap either side of it, roll the wheel over it or use the arrow keys; a double click puts it back. ONE, TWO and CLEAR are buttons: press ONE or TWO to throw that player's body, or knock it up again; CLEAR wipes the wall. The patches step on by themselves until you touch anything.

JUGGLE makes no sound: you hear the rack's drums, made in the page, and in some patches its outs playing them. The picture moves before you listen too.

VIDEO · composite · 320 × 240, 60 fields a second

your own card

Drop your own gifs or sprite sheets on the screen to throw your own cast.

example patches

The bodies, the wall and the lights are JUGGLE's engine as designed, running in your browser; the drums stand in for a rack.

Hits

ONE and TWO, a gate and a lit button each: a rise throws that player's fighter into the air, flashing white. Another before it comes down knocks the same body higher, into its next pose: a juggle.
Player two always wears another of its fighter's palettes, so you can tell whose is whose.
HANG: how long a body floats between hits before it's left. A tenth of a second fully left; two seconds at full, where a kick a beat keeps one up for bars.
SPREAD: where a new body launches. Fully left, where its player's last was left; at full, anywhere.
WHO, one a player: which fighter comes next, a semitone each. With nothing in it, the next in the cast.
A gauge a player lights to the height of its body and drains when it's left.

The wall

A body left behind stays: nothing clears by itself.
STICK: fully left the wall freezes in mid-air; turned up it sags; at full it falls to the floor, each body landing on whoever's under it. It moves the whole wall at once, both ways.
CLEAR, a gate and a button: wipes the wall within a field. The bodies in the air stay up.

Palettes, pieces and flicker

COLOUR: how many bodies wear another of their fighter's palettes, up to all of them.
BREAK: rebuilds bodies from the wrong 16 × 16 pieces of their own frames, up to a jumble. Nothing comes from anywhere else.
FLICKER: how many sprites a line can show. No limit fully left, sixteen at noon, one at full, so the wall blinks a body at a time.
All three act on the whole wall as you turn them. HANG, STICK, COLOUR and BREAK each have a CV, 5 V the whole way.

The cast

The fighters come on a microSD card: six of their own, eight frames each, for both players.
Put your own on it: a folder of gifs or pngs, an animated gif, or a sprite sheet cut into frames.
Here, what you drop on the screen stays in your browser: nothing is uploaded or kept.

What comes out

HEIGHT, one a player: 0 V with no body up, 8 V at the top of the screen. A fill rises and a gap falls, like an envelope for a filter or a VCA.
DROP: a 5 V trigger each time a body is left, either player's.
The RCA: composite video, NTSC or PAL, 320 × 240 at 60 fields a second, on as soon as the power is.

Specs

Format

Width: 20 HP
Controls: 6 knobs, 2 lit buttons, a button, a microSD card slot

Inputs

ONE, TWO, CLEAR: gates, rising past 1 V
WHO (two): 1 V an octave, a fighter a semitone
HANG, STICK, COLOUR, BREAK: CVs, added to their knobs, 5 V the whole way

Outputs

HEIGHT (two): CV, 0 to 8 V
DROP: trigger, 5 V
RCA: composite video, NTSC or PAL