Toggle

A click-reduced manual signal gate that fades between silence and the incoming signal.

What it does #

Toggle lets a front-panel state pass or suppress a signal. Although it behaves like an on/off switch from the user's perspective, the recovered implementation applies a short transition so audio does not jump discontinuously at the switching sample.

Controls and ports #

Control	Label	Official description
active	Active	Whether the signal is passed thru or zeroed out

Practical uses #

• Enable or mute an oscillator, effect branch, modulation source, or feedback contribution from one button.
• Place several Toggles around alternate patch paths for live performance variations.
• Use it to audition individual components without changing their parameter settings.

Things to know #

• The state change is not sample-hard: the recovered body transitions over 10 ms.
• The fade is shaped with smoothstep, so it starts and ends more gently than a straight linear ramp.
• On processor start or reset the internal fade state jumps to the current button state instead of replaying a transition.
• For sample-accurate signal-controlled gating, use a logic or multiply construction and account for clicks explicitly.

Technical details #

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

grid/mix/grid_toggle shares a state smoother with the other two Toggle modules. Its internal state moves between 0 and 1 at a rate corresponding to 10 ms, then becomes p=x^2*(3-2x). The output is thru*p. Start/reset initializes the state directly from Active; subsequent changes use the shaped fade.

Nitro port	Type
in	InputValuePortType
thru	InputAudioPortType
out	OutputAudioPortType

Open questions #

• Measure the exact transition duration at several sample rates and whether host automation adds another smoothing layer.
• Test rapid repeated state changes, voice-local state, startup with Active on, and stereo sample alignment.
• Verify whether 10 ms is fixed across Grid contexts and future Bitwig versions.

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

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