Phasor

Generates a continuously wrapping 0-to-1 phase ramp at an oscillator-style rate.

What it does #

Phasor creates the moving address signal used to drive phase-input oscillators, lookup tables, sequencers, and other phase processors. Its rate follows oscillator-style pitch and ratio controls, and a trigger can restart the cycle from phase zero.

Controls and ports #

The visible wrapper provides oscillator-style pitch or rate controls, a ratio, a trigger/reset input, stereo detune options, and one phase output. Some of these shared oscillator controls are not enumerated by the installed module-description resource.

Practical uses #

• Drive an oscillator or lookup table through its phase input instead of using its internal phase progression.
• Create several related ramps with ratios or stereo detuning for phase-based sound design.
• Reset the ramp from a note gate or explicit trigger when each note or pattern should begin at the same phase.

Things to know #

• A phase signal is an address ramp, not yet an audible waveform; a downstream oscillator or table converts it into a shape.
• The ramp wraps at the cycle boundary, so values stay in the phase domain even while its internal state advances.
• Reset behavior and stereo detune can create intentional or accidental differences between voices and channels.
• The current atlas contains two plausible phasor implementations, so the exact visible-wrapper binding is not yet curated.

Technical details #

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

The candidate phase/phasor.nitrobin matches the oscillator-style contract closely. It converts Grid pitch to frequency, applies a numerator/denominator ratio and optional opposite stereo detune, advances a double-precision phase accumulator, resets it when triggerIn >= 0.5, and wraps the output to one cycle. This is strong implementation evidence, but the competing grid/lfo/phasor.nitrobin means the visible binding remains formally pending.

Open questions #

• Confirm the visible Phasor-to-Nitro binding, document every shared oscillator control and pre-cord, and measure reset ordering at the exact wrap sample.

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.

Related material #

• Grid Modules course reference
• Oscillator Warp Modes in Bitwig
• Lookup Data Tables - Bitwig Grid Module Guide

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