Strudel × Unicorn Studio

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// the music spoofs the mouse. every event calls driveUnicorn(x, y, {band})
// which dispatches a synthetic mousemove on the unicorn canvas. wire mouse
// tracking (intensity 80-100%, smoothing low) on the layers you want
// reactive: displacement, bloom, scale, hue shift, parallax.

setcpm(80)

stack(
  // kick — slams centre-bottom (impact)
  s("bd ~ ~ bd")
    .gain(0.9)
    .onTrigger(() => driveUnicorn(0.5, 0.95, { band: 'kick' })),

// snare — top, random x
  s("~ cp ~ cp")
    .gain(0.7)
    .onTrigger(() => driveUnicorn(Math.random(), 0.05, { band: 'snare' })),

// hats — jitter everywhere
  s("hh*8")
    .gain(0.35)
    .onTrigger(() => driveUnicorn(Math.random(), Math.random(), { band: 'hat' })),

// bass — random horizontal at mid-height
  note("<c2 c2 ab1 bb1>(3,8)")
    .s("sawtooth").lpf(800).gain(0.5)
    .onTrigger(() => driveUnicorn(Math.random(), 0.5)),

// lead — slow sweep left to right
  n("<0 2 4 5 7 9 7 5>*2")
    .scale("C:minor").s("triangle")
    .delay(0.3).gain(0.35)
    .onTrigger(() => driveUnicorn(Math.random(), 0.3))
)

unicorn studio project (optional)

leave blank to use the built-in mouse-reactive shader fallback. to use a real project: open unicorn.studio, export → "embed code", copy the data-us-project id, paste here.