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The TR-808's Manual Play mode schedules pattern transitions and fill-ins to happen at phrase boundaries, not immediately

The TR-808's trigger output can be routed as an audio signal to create additional percussive textures

The track_data handler uses a dot-namespace format to query track, clip, clip_slot, or device properties in a single call

The two diagonals of the basic plane carry contrasting tensions: the lyric diagonal (calm) and the dramatic diagonal (complex)

The Universal MIDI Packet is one container for all MIDI, adding 16 Groups of 16 channels (256 total) and jitter-reduction timestamps

The XY Pad widget controls moving head pan/tilt with mouse, keyboard, or external controller and supports presets

Three.js AnimationMixer plays and blends AnimationClips on a 3D object by being updated each frame with a delta time

Three.js post-processing chains render passes through an EffectComposer that processes them in order of addition

Thru playback continues past a triggered slice into the rest of the sample for natural breakbeats

Tidal loops the current command until a new one compiles, with a completion rule ensuring musical continuity

Tidal pattern combinators transform time — not just events — enabling rotation, reversal, and every-nth-cycle transformations

Tidal provides continuous waveform functions (sine, tri, saw, square) that return smoothly varying values for use as effect parameters

Tidal represents time as rational numbers so musical subdivisions are stored exactly as fractions without floating-point error

Tidal schedules OSC messages to an external synthesiser, separating pattern logic from sound synthesis

Tidal's |>, <|, |<, >|, |+| operators combine two patterns by separately controlling which side provides structure vs. values

Tidal's begin and end play only part of a sample, and unit "c" makes speed stretch playback to fit the cycle

Tidal's cut stops any other sound using the same cut group, while legato controls how long a sound plays before the next one starts

Tidal's higher-order pattern transformations compose freely because they operate on functions, not on stored event lists

Tidal's pipe arithmetic operators (|+, |-, |*, |/) modify control values relative to an existing pattern value

Tidal's shuffle plays a random permutation of a pattern's parts (without replacement); scramble picks parts with replacement

Tidal's slice and splice chop a looping sample into n equal slices for rearrangement; splice also pitch-adjusts each slice to fit its step duration

Tidal's sometimes applies a function to random individual events; somecycles applies it to entire random cycles

Tidal's stripe repeats a pattern n times per cycle but with random sub-cycle durations that still fill the cycle

Tidal's wchoose picks from a list with weighted probabilities, unlike choose which weights all options equally

Tidal's weave function offsets multiple patterns in time while applying a shared effect pattern, creating canonic and spatial structures as side effects

TidalCycles `@N` sets an event's duration to N steps, enabling non-isochronous rhythms

TidalCycles `off` overlays a time-offset, transformed copy of a pattern to build canons

TidalCycles ascii, binary, and binaryN turn strings or integers into boolean rhythm patterns via their binary representation

TidalCycles bite slices a pattern cycle into equal-sized pieces and addresses them by index, enabling arbitrary reordering of pattern sections

TidalCycles can trigger custom SuperCollider synths using n with note names or midinote with MIDI numbers

TidalCycles choose emits continuous random values from a list; wchoose adds probability weights to make some values more likely

TidalCycles chunk divides a pattern into n sections and applies a transform to each in turn, one per cycle

TidalCycles degrade and degradeBy randomly remove events from a pattern at a controllable probability

TidalCycles euclidInv and euclidFull produce the rhythmic complement or dual-voice Euclidean pattern

TidalCycles loopFirst repeats only the first cycle of a pattern, freezing later cycles' content

TidalCycles mask gates a pattern with a boolean mask, letting events through only where the mask is true

TidalCycles necklace generates boolean rhythmic patterns from a list of inter-onset intervals rather than onset/total-steps parameters

TidalCycles palindrome alternates a pattern between forward and backward playback every other cycle

TidalCycles ply repeats each event in a pattern n times within its original time slot

TidalCycles range rescales a 0–1 continuous pattern to any numeric interval

TidalCycles ribbon cuts a fixed window from a pattern's timeline and loops that window

TidalCycles rot rotates the values of a pattern leftward while preserving the original rhythmic structure

TidalCycles spread applies a function with each of a list of parameter values in turn, cycling one value per cycle

TidalCycles stripe repeats a pattern n times at random speeds while keeping total duration constant

TidalCycles struct imposes a boolean rhythmic structure on any pattern, enabling Euclidean and binary rhythm shapes

TidalCycles stutter repeats each event n times separated by a fixed time offset, creating manual echo-style delays

TidalCycles timeLoop t loops a pattern's cycle sequence every t cycles, like a modulo on cycle number

TidalCycles trunc cuts a pattern short while linger repeats the kept fraction to fill the cycle

TidalCycles uses Ableton Link by default for BPM synchronization with other performers and applications

TidalCycles when and whenmod apply transforms based on a predicate or modular arithmetic test on the cycle number

TidalCycles' 'iter' rotates a pattern by a fraction each cycle, and the rotation amount is itself patternable

Tides frequency-multiplication output mode makes just-intonation chords at audio rate and polyrhythmic triggers at LFO rate

Tides is calibrated for accurate pitch tracking by feeding known 1.000V and 3.000V references into V/OCT in a button-triggered routine

Tides uses different clock-following algorithms at LFO vs. audio rate: phase-locked for swing at LFO, pitch-accurate at audio

Timeboxing breaks procrastination by making creative work feel manageable and stopping while it is still good

Toggling a color inversion or hard posterize on the drop downbeat is a single-frame visual hit

Tone matching EQ corrects spectral mismatches between tracks from different genres or eras

TouchDesigner can host real-time AI/ML pipelines for generation, tracking, and stylisation in a live AV rig

Transposition, inversion, retrograde, and pitch rotation are rule-based transformations that generate new patterns from existing material

Treating abandoned projects as a personal sample library removes the stigma of unfinished work