Pitch → Ø
Bitwig Platform
Converts the position of a Grid pitch within its octave into a repeating phase value.
What it does
Pitch → Ø discards the octave index and keeps the note's location inside one octave. Pitch classes one octave apart therefore produce the same phase position, which is useful for octave-independent mappings.
Controls and ports
The wrapper has one Grid pitch-signal input and one phase output. It exposes no scale or root control; the conversion follows the octave structure of the incoming pitch signal.
Practical uses
- Address a lookup table by pitch class while ignoring which octave is played.
- Create octave-repeating timbre or modulation changes across the keyboard.
- Convert a pitch ramp into a cyclic phase source.
Things to know
- Octave information is intentionally removed.
- Notes separated by exactly one octave map to the same output phase.
- This does not quantize the pitch to semitones; continuous pitch bends remain continuous within the octave.
- Negative pitch values require floor-style wrapping rather than truncation toward zero.
Technical details
No Nitro implementation has been confirmed for this visible module. The behavior is described conservatively from module metadata and editorial research.
Grid pitch uses one unit per octave, so the octave-relative phase contract is the fractional component out = pitch - floor(pitch). No unique Nitro wrapper has been confirmed; the current name-based candidate is unrelated and should not be used as evidence.
Open questions
- Measure negative octave boundaries, exact semitone reference points, and handling of non-finite pitch signals.
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
Return to Bitwig Grid Modules or the Grid Modules course lesson.
Also matches: Bitwig Pitch → Ø module, Bitwig Grid Pitch → Ø, Pitch → Ø Grid module