mob by daylight noise

mob

they'll follow you anywhere

20 HP

Lead with a beat and a crowd takes it up: a handful stamping along late, then hundreds, then thousands, stamping and clapping as one and shouting on the hits. Change the beat and they lose faith. Grow them past the edge and stop, and they riot until you raise your hand.

Leading

MOB listens for your hits and finds the cycle in them, the stretch of beat that repeats. Every hit that lands where they expect it wins more of them over, and they play the cycle back with you: at first a handful a little behind you, then, as they get it, on the beat, a cycle ahead. A hit they didn't expect, or one they expected and didn't get, costs you people.

STOMP and CLAP: gates, each rise a hit to follow. Left empty, MOB finds them in LEAD instead: its low thumps are stomps, its bright cracks claps.

LEAD: your beat, or your voice for the horn.

CROWD, the big knob: how fast they gather and how many come. Fully left a dozen at most; at noon a few hundred, three times as many every two seconds the beat holds; fully right ten thousand, eight times as many every two seconds.

CROWD, the jack: its CV, added to the knob.

The crowd

CHANT: what they do on the hits. Fully left they stamp and clap; from a third of the way they shout on the claps; past noon on the stomps too, held longer; at full every hit is a roar, and there's a roar between them as big as the crowd.

FERVOUR: how tight they are. Fully left dead on your beat, a drilled unison; at noon a touch behind and loose; at full they rush 55 ms ahead, sloppy, and a riot is never far off.

FERVOUR, the jack: its CV, added to the knob.

FAR: how far back they stand. Fully left a packed room, every stamp at once; at full a stadium, each stamp rolling from the front to the back over a third of a second, darker as it goes, the hall ringing on.

The crowd on the panel lights as they come, the near ones first, and each person flashes as a stamp reaches them, so you see it roll back through them.

The riot and the hand

Grow them past the edge, nearly as many as CROWD allows (less the higher FERVOUR is), and stop leading: within a cycle they riot. They carry on without you, the last cycle you played going round faster each time, louder, more joining, the back pushing forward. Nothing you play stops it.

RAISE, a lit button and its gate: your hand. Dead silence at once, a riot over. They stay; let go and they wait, silent, and come back in on your next hit, all at once. The cap glows as they near the edge and blinks through a riot.

What comes out

LEFT, RIGHT: the crowd, spread wider as it grows.

LEADER: LEAD through the horn.

FEET, HANDS: triggers on the crowd's stomps and claps, late, on time or rushing as they are.

RIOT: a gate, high while they riot.

SIZE: how many there are, 2 V a decade: 2 V for ten, 6 V for a thousand, 8 V at ten thousand.

Specs

Format

Width: 20 HP
Controls: a big knob, 4 knobs, a lit button

Inputs

STOMP, CLAP: gates, a rising edge past 1 V
LEAD: audio, ±5 V
RAISE: gate, high is the hand raised
CROWD, FERVOUR: CV, added to their knobs, 5 V the whole way

Outputs

LEFT, RIGHT: audio, the crowd
LEADER: audio, the horn
FEET, HANDS: triggers, 5 V, 10 ms
RIOT: gate, 5 V
SIZE: CV, 0 to 8 V