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Ø Skew

Bitwig Platform

Ø Skew module panel in Bitwig Grid
Ø Skew in Bitwig Grid 6.0.6.

Moves a selected input phase position to the midpoint while keeping the cycle endpoints fixed.

What it does

Ø Skew splits the phase ramp into two linear regions. The phase value chosen by Amount is remapped to 0.5, so one half of the output cycle is traversed faster and the other more slowly. This is classic phase-distortion style warping.

Controls and ports

Control Label Official description
amount Amount Level of the incoming signal to be remapped to '+0.5'

Practical uses

  • Change the symmetry of an oscillator waveform through its phase input.
  • Create pulse-width-like or CZ-style phase distortion from simple source shapes.
  • Enable Stereo-ize for complementary left/right skew positions.

Things to know

  • The selected Amount maps exactly to output phase 0.5 in the recovered implementation.
  • The input and output endpoints remain at the cycle boundaries.
  • The implementation clamps the skew point away from exact 0 and 1 to avoid division by zero.
  • Stereo-ize uses complementary skew points a and 1 - a.

Technical details

A high-confidence Nitro implementation candidate supports the technical summary, but the visible-module mapping remains inferred.

The confirmed grid/phase/grid_phase_skew.nitrobin clamps a = clamp(skew, 0.001, 0.999). For valid phase, x <= a maps to 0.5 * x/a; values above a map to 0.5 + 0.5 * (x-a)/(1-a). The implementation expresses both branches in one vector formula and wraps the result with y - floor(y). Stereo-ize alternates a and 1-a.

Nitro port Type
x InputAudioPortType
skew InputAudioPortType
stereoize InputValuePortType
out OutputAudioPortType

Open questions

  • Measure the visible Amount scaling, Stereo-ize lane ordering, behavior for inputs outside one cycle, and non-finite recovery.

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 Ø Skew module, Bitwig Grid Ø Skew, Ø Skew Grid module