# Godstrument → Strudel (and any MIDI synth)

The destinations aren't sound on their own — they're **control signals** looking
for a voice. The ⚙ panel's **Web MIDI out** already streams every destination to
a MIDI port as CC (and `lead.note`/`bass.note` as notes). So *any* synth that
speaks MIDI becomes an output that "receives sources": a hardware synth, a
software instrument, Ableton — or **Strudel**, which reads MIDI natively and is
free/open/self-hostable (fits the whole ethos).

## Setup (Strudel as the sound engine, no Ableton)

1. In `config.json` set `"midi": { "enabled": true }` (or just use the browser
   Web MIDI out from the ⚙ panel — either sends the same CCs).
2. On macOS, open **Audio MIDI Setup → MIDI Studio**, double-click **IAC Driver**,
   tick *Device is online*. That's your virtual cable.
3. In the ⚙ panel: **enable MIDI**, pick the IAC bus as **out**.
4. Open **strudel.cc** (or your self-hosted Strudel), allow MIDI, set its input to
   the IAC bus, and paste the pattern below.

## The CC map (from `config.json` → `midi.map`)

| destination      | CC | driven by (in the starter patch) |
|------------------|----|----------------------------------|
| filter.cutoff    | 74 | the sun / your hand |
| pad.brightness   | 71 | daylight, harmony, almanac fertility |
| wavetable.morph  | 70 | your hand / Mars / almanac element |
| delay.feedback   | 93 | your hand Y / Mercury retrograde |
| reverb.size      | 91 | room light / quakes |
| saturation       | 75 | Delhi's air / **debt churn** |
| granular.density | 76 | Wikipedia edit rate |
| perc.density     | 77 | **your dealgod market** / crypto volatility |
| tempo.nudge      | 78 | market activity / **inflation** |
| drone.voices     | 79 | aircraft / population / **the debt's weight** |
| lfo.rate         | 72 | wind / the Moon rising & falling |
| glitch           | 73 | retrogrades / wiki edits / light flashes |
| master.space     | 94 | the moon phase / quakes / inflation |
| lead.note        | note, ch 0 | **your market**, quantized (G dorian) |
| bass.note        | note, ch 1 | earthquake depth, quantized |

## A starter pattern

```javascript
// bind the hub's CCs (adjust the input-binding call to your Strudel version;
// ccn(n) returns 0..1 for controller n on the selected MIDI input)
setcps(0.5)

const cutoff = ccn(74), bright = ccn(71), morph = ccn(70)
const grit   = ccn(75), perc = ccn(77), drone = ccn(79)
const space  = ccn(94), lfo  = ccn(72), glitch = ccn(73)

stack(
  // LEAD — your market plays it (note on channel 0)
  note(notein()).s("sawtooth")
    .cutoff(cutoff.range(300, 5000)).lpq(morph.range(2, 12)).gain(0.5),

  // PAD — light / almanac brightness
  n("0 3 7 10").scale("C:dorian").s("gm_pad_warm")
    .room(space.range(0, 0.9)).gain(bright.range(0.15, 0.6)),

  // DRONE — the weight of the debt
  n("0").scale("C:dorian").s("sawtooth").cutoff(180)
    .gain(drone.range(0, 0.45)).room(0.7),

  // HATS — dealgod market activity drives density
  s("hh*8").gain(perc.range(0, 0.9)).pan(sine.fast(lfo.range(0.2, 4)))
).distort(grit.range(0, 2.5)).sometimesBy(glitch.range(0, 0.4), x => x.crush(4))
```

## No-MIDI alternative (custom web-audio synth)

If you'd rather build your own voices, the hub also broadcasts every value on
`ws://localhost:8765` as JSON (`dests`, `sources`, `macros`). A ~30-line page can
open that socket and feed the numbers straight into Web Audio nodes — no MIDI, no
IAC. Ask and I'll scaffold it.
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