Effects and filters

While individual instruments only allow you to configure a low-pass filter to adjust their sound, a variety of more interesting effects can be applied to the song overall. You can find these extra effects and filters in the ADVANCED view.

Global effects

The following effects are available to you:

• Delay
• Chorus
• Reverb
• Distortion
• Low boost
• Compressor
• High pass

Only one of these effects can be applied at the same time.

Typically, many of these effects allow for a very granular control via a number of settings. For the sake of simplicity, in Bosca Ceoil you can enable and adjust the power of each effect and filter with just one slider. Setting the slider all the way to the left disables all global effects.

Swing effect

Separate from other effects is swing. Using swing you can adjust the timing of the played notes. Normally, a note in Bosca Ceoil Blue can be played at every tick of the metronome. The swing effect takes two consecutive notes in a pattern and adjusts their proportions, such that one of the notes takes the majority of their combined time and the other takes the minority.

A rough demonstration of how note timings change with swing; in the app itself the notes' visuals remain unchanged when you adjust swing.

In other words, if two notes take two ticks to play, then adjusting the swing effect to the left makes the first note take the smaller portion of those two ticks, and the second note — to take the larger portion. Moving the slider to the right does the opposite, and the first note takes the larger portion.

Exporting results

Now that we've got every part of the creative process covered, it's time to render the song for the world to hear! Read on in Export and Import.