* Boštjan Jerko <[email protected]> [2020-04-20 17:14]:
> I’m trying to understand the script I got and there is one part where phasor~ 
> gets an input that is not a number. Something like on the attached image.
As a general rule, better post post the .pd file (called "patch")
instead of screenshots.
> I don’t get why and how the output is produced.
> In the manual it says for the phasor that “incoming message overrides the 
> initial value”. Does that mean that the phasor will act as it gets the last 
> value in the buffer e.g.
The phasor~ accepts audio signals at its frequency input as well. The
momentary amplitude of that audio signal will be interpreted as the
frequency in Hz. So in your case the phasor~ has a frequency that is not
constant, but oscillates between -1Hz and 1Hz (because that's what the
[osc~] signal does). You might hear clicks now and then as the sawtooth
waveform wraps around. How frequent does the phasor~'s frequency alter
between -1Hz and 1Hz? Well, that is determined by the [osc~] frequency
in turn. This is 1000Hz when you open your patch, and switches to 1Hz
when you click onto the [x] toggle box that is connected to the
frequency inlet. 
Bottom line: The fact that an audio signal can be used as a control
signal for other properties, and is itself never made audible, is at the
heart of modular analogue and digital synthesis.

best, P



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