Counters, toggles and dividers on an aperiodic trigger stream #164

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opened 2026-10-06 16:24:14 +00:00 by bcox · 0 comments

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2026-10-06 16:24:14 +00:00

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bcox asked on 2026-10-06 for a ticket for each gap docs/modular-gaps.md names without one, whether or not it is ever done. Engine claims are from reading the tree at 6a3fede9 on main. Nothing here is built, measured or listened to.

Summary

Every clock in a voice is a phase-locked oscillator or LFO restarted at note-on, so periodic dividers and multipliers fit as LFOs at ratio rates. A trigger that comes from an audio onset, a comparator edge or the end of a variable-length envelope has nothing to count it: no toggle, no divide-by-N, no counter. docs/modular-gaps.md lists it as not reachable.

What the tree has

kGreater as an edge against a slewed copy; LFOs at ratio rates; no state in an op.

The work, as a sketch

A counter mode on the stateful control source (the ticket for a control source with one word of state), with a modulus: output is count mod N over full scale, a toggle at N = 2.

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Whether it is a mode of that source or its own kind.

bcox asked on 2026-10-06 for a ticket for each gap `docs/modular-gaps.md` names without one, whether or not it is ever done. Engine claims are from reading the tree at `6a3fede9` on `main`. **Nothing here is built, measured or listened to.** ## Summary Every clock in a voice is a phase-locked oscillator or LFO restarted at note-on, so periodic dividers and multipliers fit as LFOs at ratio rates. A trigger that comes from an audio onset, a comparator edge or the end of a variable-length envelope has nothing to count it: no toggle, no divide-by-N, no counter. `docs/modular-gaps.md` lists it as not reachable. ## What the tree has - `kGreater` as an edge against a slewed copy; LFOs at ratio rates; no state in an op. ## The work, as a sketch - A counter mode on the stateful control source (the ticket for a control source with one word of state), with a modulus: output is count mod N over full scale, a toggle at N = 2. ## Open Whether it is a mode of that source or its own kind.