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Gate Length

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Gate Length module panel in Bitwig Grid
Gate Length in Bitwig Grid 6.0.6.

Converts an incoming trigger into a high logic pulse with a chosen duration.

What it does

Gate Length behaves like a one-shot or monostable: a trigger starts the output pulse, the output remains high for the Length setting, and then returns low automatically.

Controls and ports

Control Label Official description
trigger_in Trigger In Trigger starts new logic pulse
length Length High-logic duration for each triggered logic pulse

Practical uses

  • Give short triggers a reliable duration for envelopes, switches, or logic modules.
  • Normalize event sources that arrive with different input pulse widths.
  • Turn an impulse-like rhythm into gates suitable for controlling sustained events.

Things to know

  • Length describes the outgoing pulse duration, not a clock-division ratio.
  • Retrigger behavior during an active pulse has not yet been measured.
  • Changing Length while a pulse is active may or may not alter the current pulse.
  • Abrupt logic transitions can click when applied directly to audio.

Technical details

No Nitro implementation has been confirmed for this visible module. The behavior is described conservatively from module metadata and editorial research.

Conceptually, a detected input event starts a timer and implements out = 1 for duration T, followed by out = 0. This is the standard monostable transfer behavior, but no confirmed Nitro body currently establishes Bitwig's retrigger, zero-length, or dynamic-length policy.

Open questions

  • Measure retrigger/restart behavior, zero length, the trigger threshold and edge policy, and whether Length modulation affects an already active pulse.

Version and sources

Checked against Bitwig Studio 6.0.6. This page combines Bitwig's module metadata, the existing Grid course and guides, and Nitro analysis where the mapping is strong enough to support a technical statement.

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Also matches: Bitwig Gate Length module, Bitwig Grid Gate Length, Gate Length Grid module