Pre-master is what the instrument does; post-master is what you hear.
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The patch rides inside the file. Drop the picture back onto auracle and it opens as a patch.
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This patch is live under your fingers. Drag a knob — the
sound changes instantly. Click a lock dot (hover a knob) or a module's ▢
to pin what you love, then ⚡ evolve from this breeds variations that keep your
locks. Changed it by hand? commit plays your version against the original and
asks which you prefer — either answer teaches the model, and “the original” teaches it most. The rail on the right is the module catalogue — its ? walks you through it.
pre-master
esc
This layout has spread past the frame.
Pick a patch from the bank — then play it below, turn its knobs, lock what you love, and ⚡ evolve the rest.
held
Anything you unplug is held here until you reload. Save the patch to keep it for good.
teachvs
Play both. Keep the one you’d reach for.
candidate a
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candidate b
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evolution — what each generation actually did
No generations yet — make a few picks, then press EVOLVE POOL, or ⚡ evolve a patch you like.
taste
less would like sure · unsure
WHICH THREE DO YOU LIKE?
Play them. Pick your three favourites — that’s worth about
twenty A/B votes, and it means the model starts out already pointed at you.
WHICH ONE IS BETTER?
You changed this patch. Play them both and pick — it teaches the model
either way, and “the original won” teaches it the most.
A
B
1 / 2 play · ← → pick · esc skip
HOW TO PLAY
keys
a w s e d f t g y h u j k … play notes · z/x octave · ⌘Z undo edit · ⇧⌘Z redo
space audition the current patch · [/] step through the bank · 1–5 rate the patch you’re on · m save it · in presets, p plays the row
In EVOLVE: 1/2 audition · ←/→ vote · ⌘Z take back a vote
the rack canvas
home fit the whole patch · . fit what you’re on · ⌘0 actual size · ⌘−/⌘= zoom out/in
ctrl+wheel or pinch zooms at the pointer · wheel or a drag on bare canvas pans · space-drag and middle-drag pan from anywhere on it. map shows where you are; detail drops the knobs when you zoom out.
chain draws the signal path on one baseline, compact packs it tight, and freeform is yours: drag a plate by its faceplate and it snaps to the grid — hold shift to place it freely. apply grid pins everything where it currently sits, which is how you start from an evolved patch. Positions are kept per patch, survive a reload and a generation of ⚡, and travel with an exported patch file.
performance
hold latches notes · arp plays held chords in patterns at the BPM, with octave range, gate and swing · uni stacks all 4 voices detuned · gld slides one note into the next when you play a line (chords stay clean) · ● rec bounces your playing to a WAV
⇕ tall gives the keybed the height of a real keyboard, and keys sets how many octaves it shows — fewer octaves, wider keys. Both are worth having if you're playing with fingers.
A MIDI keyboard just works: velocity, pitch bend, sustain pedal.
the rack
Drag knobs — sound changes instantly. Click enum plates to cycle. ⋯ restructures a module; ▢ locks it so evolution can't touch it. Tab into the rack, then arrows to move and ↑/↓ to turn.
the node bank
The rail on the right is the catalogue. Click a module and it's in your hand: every socket it can go into lights up and says what will happen there — green inserts before what's already in the socket, amber replaces it. Click a lit ○ to place it. esc puts it down.
/ searches by sound as well as by name — grit, vowel, sidechain, wander. Hover any module for a sentence on what it does, its ports, and what the model has learned about it. Arrows walk the list; enter takes one; then arrows walk the lit sockets and enter places.
Modulation chains. Drop a shape cv module — quantize, slew, rectify, hold — on a cable that already carries a modulator and it takes that modulator as its input instead of replacing it, so s&h rand → quantize → slew is three clicks. combine cv takes two modulators and gives back one. The socket says which of fill / replace / shape it is about to do.
Drag a wired in jack off its socket to unplug — the chain is held under the rack until you reload, and dragging its ● puts it back.
teaching it
Pick between pairs in EVOLVE (or the quick-pick strip in PLAY). Star and cut patches in the bank. Commit edits with “my edit is better”. Watch TASTE learn your styles — name them. The bank's ? walks you through what a generation is.
The rail holds three banks. evolution is the live pool of 40:
each bred patch replaces the one the model thinks you like least.
presets is the hand-made library that came with the instrument.
my patches is what you saved.
★ and save are different questions. Stars tell the
model what you think of a patch; save tells the bank to keep it —
a saved patch is never replaced to make room. Press m on the
row the bank cursor is on to save it.