TEXT

Draws a line or block of text into the chain, placed, sized and scrolled by the module itself, so text beyond the edge of the screen can still move into view. The string is typed straight into the module panel; every control except Letter Spacing styles the same rendered text without re-rendering it, so all of them can be modulated.

Parameter	Control	Notes
Text	text field	The content. Enter starts a new line. The field grows one row per line up to eight rows, then scrolls. No length limit.
Font	Dropdown	The font family: one alphabetical list of the bundled retro/terminal fonts and the fonts installed on the computer, each row drawn in its own typeface, plus Load Custom... (a .ttf, .otf or .ttc file) and Refresh List. A font that cannot be found on this machine is drawn with the bundled default and shown as (missing).
Style	Dropdown	The family’s styles (Regular, Bold, Italic, …), also drawn in their own face. Dimmed when the family has only one style. Picking a style sets B and I to match it.
B / I / U / S	Rocker	Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough. B and I switch Style to the family’s real bold or italic when it has one and simulate it otherwise; hovering a lit B or I says when it is simulated. Underline and strikethrough run to the last letter of each line and take the stroke, emboss and warp. Not modulatable.
Mix	Trough	Opacity of the module’s contribution to the chain.
Blend	Selector	Add, Multiply, Screen, Difference, XOR, Replace, or Phoenix into the chain.
Alignment	Selector, Trough	L, C, R snap lines to the left, centre or right of the block; the Trough (0 to 1) places them anywhere in between.
Line Spacing	Trough	Distance between lines, 0.5 to 3 times the font’s line height.
Letter Spacing	Trough	Extra space between letters, -0.1 to 1 em. Applies on release. Not modulatable.
Position	Pad	Places the text.
Scale	Pad, Rocker	Text width and height around the frame centre; the only size control, and the text stays sharp at any value. Link X/Y (on by default) resizes without stretching; Flip X / Flip Y mirror the text.
Rotation	Wheel	Degrees, clockwise.
Speed	Pad	Scroll speed per axis in loops per second, the same loop time whatever the text length. Positive scrolls right or up, negative left or down; both axes together scroll diagonally. 0 is still.
Offset	Pad	Position within the scroll loop per axis; wraps around.
Gap	Trough	Space before the scrolled text repeats, in screens (0 to 2).
Fill	Trough	Fill color and alpha.
Stroke	Rocker, Trough	An outline around the glyphs: width (0 to 24) and color/alpha. Dimmed while the Rocker is off.
Emboss	Rocker, Wheel, Trough	A directional light shading the glyph edges: angle, depth and strength.
Warp	Selector, Trough	None, Arc, Bulge, Flag, Wave, or Fisheye, driven by Bend, Horizontal and Vertical. The sliders are dimmed while the preset is None.

NOTE: an axis repeats only while its Speed or Offset is not 0. Still text never shows copies of itself.

NOTE: scrolled text moves through the Warp; the warp shape stays in place. For a strip like a shop-window LED sign, add a Mask insert effect.

NOTE: an LFO or Time source on Offset gives scrolling motion of any shape. Offset keeps wrapping past 1, so a steadily rising source scrolls forever.

NOTE: the text is rendered once per change of content, font or Letter Spacing, spread across frames when a patch loads several instances; any other change is visible on the same frame. While a new string is being rendered the previous one stays on screen, so typing never flashes to empty.

NOTE: a font chosen with Load Custom... is stored by file path. With embedded assets enabled in Settings, the font file travels inside the saved patch like a SPRITE’s image does.

Related: Insert FX Chains, AUX Sends and Buses, Modulation Matrix.