Reading the panel¶

The Death's Hand panel: pitch and the three macro knobs on top under their sigils, four settings knobs below, the ratio-lock key and routing knob, eight inputs, the hand mark, and the two outputs on a red altar, all over a faint summoning circle.

There are no words on the panel, only sigils. The top row is the voice: pitch and the three character macros. Below them are the settings the patch.Init keeps on its shift layer. Each sigil repeats on the jack that modulates it, so the panel reads in columns.

Sigil	Means
Eye (lashes)	Pitch · V/OCT input
Zigzag in a circle	FLESH macro · its CV
Eight-arrow star	MALICE macro · its CV
Four rings	LEGION macro · its CV
Vesica (two rings)	Ratio, or modulator pitch when free
Triangle in a circle	Modulator shape. The red last stop is Lorenz
Hourglass	Symmetry trim · its CV
Slit eye	Fine tune
Key	Ratio lock. The red arrow is up = locked
Crossed ring ⊗	Routing: FM, + timbre mod, + AM, + ring · its trigger input
Spiral	External FM input
Pillars and lightning	Sync input
Blood drop (solid)	Primary out
Blood drop with rings	Modulator out

Bone rings mark inputs, red rings mark outputs, and the outputs sit on the altar. The hand, the edge runes and the summoning circle are decoration.

The macros¶

Each macro sweeps several parameters at once, each over its own stretch of the knob, so one knob (or one CV) tells one story. +/-5 V at a macro's jack sweeps its whole range, so an envelope into FLESH opens the whole voice.

Macro	Sweeps	Along the knob
FLESH	FM index, wavefold, symmetry, modulator → timbre	FM sidebands first, then the fold opens (glassy, then snarling), then asymmetry and a moving fold
MALICE	self-feedback, chaos, extra FM	The lower half is feedback only: sine to saw, still harmonic. The edge into chaos runs from about 0.55 to 0.8. The top is possessed
LEGION	sub, voices, spread, drift	The sub arrives first, then detuned voices fade in one by one, then they drift apart

The host tests hold each macro to its story: FLESH's brightness climbs at every step (220 Hz → 6.8 kHz centroid), MALICE stays harmonic to halfway and is fully inharmonic by 0.9, and LEGION's beating grows from 2.8× to 4.8×. The curves live in dsp/Macros.hpp.

Where the panel comes from¶

The panel is generated: make panel runs vcv/res/make_panel.py, which writes vcv/res/ComplexOsc.svg, a preview with stand-in knobs and jacks, and vcv/src/PanelLayout.hpp from one table, so the widget positions can't drift from the artwork (CI checks this with make panel-check). Every sigil is drawn from code, with no fonts or images, so it renders in Rack and scales cleanly to a printed panel. It uses real Eurorack dimensions (16 HP × 128.5 mm), so it is also a starting point for a physical panel.