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Joe Cooley

A chirp on one grid division, two open-fader scribbles on the next, and a chirp on the third, a three-division cycle. Each chirp keeps the Chirp’s eased shape and reversal close while sweeping the whole grid cell at double speed; the scribbles keep the Scribble’s timing with twice its wiggle. Default division 1/8, Pattern Joe Cooley, Rate 8th, Gate Straight, Swing 0, Humanize 15%. Use it when a phrase should bracket a nervous wiggle with clipped attacks: at the 1/8 default the figure fills a dotted quarter, a three-8th phrase against the bar. The 1+2 and 2+2 preview buttons select the Joe Cooley 1+2 and Joe Cooley 2+2 patterns, the short answer (one scribble, two chirps) and the long one (two scribbles, two chirps). Lineage: Named for the Joe Cooley electro-scratch vocabulary.

Preview presets

1 — Cooley

Effective controls: Pattern Joe Cooley · Motion Forward · Division 1/8 · Rate 8th · Gate Straight · Swing 0% · Humanize 15% This is the catalog default preview.

2 — 1+2

Effective controls: Pattern Joe Cooley 1+2 · Motion Forward · Division 1/8 · Rate 8th · Gate Straight · Swing 0% · Humanize 15% Overrides: Pattern → Joe Cooley 1+2

3 — 2+2

Effective controls: Pattern Joe Cooley 2+2 · Motion Forward · Division 1/8 · Rate 8th · Gate Straight · Swing 0% · Humanize 15% Overrides: Pattern → Joe Cooley 2+2

4 — Chirp

Effective controls: Pattern Chirp · Motion Forward · Division 1/8 · Rate 8th · Gate Straight · Swing 0% · Humanize 15% Overrides: Pattern → Chirp