Presets

relanote ships a starter library of synths, effects, tunings and grooves under src/stdlib/prelude/. They're plain .rela source — exactly what you'd write yourself — embedded into the runtime via prelude_data_*.mbt.

That means every preset is a reference example *and* a working patch. Read pads_floating.rela to see how a Floating Points-style lush pad is built; pull a copy into your project, change three numbers, get something new.

Synthesis presets

Effects

Tunings

tunings.rela ships seven systems:

Grooves

grooves.rela ships eight feels:

Rolling your own

Every preset above is a plain .rela declaration. To extend the library, drop a new file into src/stdlib/prelude/ and rerun the embed:

vp run stdlib:regen

The generator (scripts/gen_stdlib.sh) reads every .rela under prelude/, emits one prelude_data_*.mbt file per source module, and prelude.mbt concatenates the lot into the combined PRELUDE string the runtime loads at startup.

If you add a new category, also extend PRELUDE's ordering in prelude.mbt so it ends up in the right place (theory before synthesis before effects).

Listen-through example

Use this as a first-listen preset sketch: a bass gesture, bright chord stabs and a moving lead line. The browser preview focuses on the pitch/rhythm layer, so you can check the musical idea before choosing the final synth and effects preset.

scale Minor = { R, M2, m3, P4, P5, m6, m7 }

let bass  = | <1> - <1> <5> |:4
let stabs = | [R, m3, P5] - [P4, m6, R] - |:4
let lead  = | <5> <7> <8> <7> <5> <3> <4> <5> |:4

bass ++ stabs ++ lead