Water Formation in Alchemy Is a Phaser

Hydrogen and oxygen in Paraflex Alchemy are Water Formation. The legend says so, and what you hear is a phaser sweep. The factory preset Phaser (H+O) and H2O - Water are there so you do not have to hunt the table the first time.

The Alchemy guide is the full reaction list. This is one bond, and the ways it gets mistaken for the Motion knob.

Make the bond, then move it

1. Add hydrogen and oxygen. Six elements is the ceiling. Two is enough.
2. Leave the Reactor at zero and play a note. You hear the elements. No reaction.
3. Raise the Reactor. A bond lights. The legend should read Water Formation.
4. Drag the orbs together. Closer reacts harder. The last distance before they touch is where the sweep comes up fastest.
5. Drag them apart. The bond can still be there, quietly.

Scroll an orb for volume. The quieter element holds the reaction back. Volume at zero removes it from the chemistry.

The phaser you did not turn on

Motion on the Character bench can be a phaser, a chorus, a flanger, or a tremolo, with its own rate. If Motion is at zero and the sound is still sweeping, the bond is doing it. That is the chamber. You steer it with distance and the Reactor, not by hunting a rate knob that is already down.

Reactions also run their own chorus, phaser, flanger, and tremolo. If you then turn Motion up, you have two motions. Learn the bond with Motion at zero. Add the knob when you want a rate you can sync to the host. Motion's Sync locks that rate to tempo. The bond's sweep is not that Sync control.

Tone is a separate filter: low cut, high cut, resonance, 12 dB or 24 dB, on the whole instrument. A high cut can dull the sweep. If the phaser disappeared, open the high cut before you decide the reaction failed.

Salt is the neighbour people load by mistake

Sodium and chlorine are Alkali Halide: drive and a snappier attack, not a sweep. If the patch got louder and punchier and did not move, read the symbols. Water is hydrogen and oxygen. The legend is the check.

Noble Gas Stabilization is a different slow motion: longer sustain and release, a low-pass sweeping down. If a noble gas is in the chamber with anything that is not a noble gas, you may be hearing that bond as well. Two reactions never stack on the same pair. A third element can start its own.

Alchemy pitch or Keys

In Alchemy pitch the elements keep their own pitches, and the phaser sits on that interval. In Keys the sweep follows the chord you play. For a pad, Keys plus a long envelope is the easier musical object. For a designed texture, Alchemy pitch keeps the interval the table chose. Global envelope times run from 1 ms to 10 s. A slow attack lets the sweep read as a bed. A fast attack lets it read as a hit with motion on the tail.

Void tones do not react with anything. A Void under hydrogen and oxygen adds weight and does not join the bond.

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