Figure 3: Five different references are depicted using common music notation. The examples assume a container named Examp containing 15 events whose frequencies range over two octaves of the C Major scale, from C⁴ (middle C) to C⁶.

Stella supplies a number of different commands for editing parameterized sound data. All of these commands function in a similar manner, by mapping over a set of referenced objects and performing some operation (scaling, incrementing, setting,