Hive Trigger "Flow"?

[Erkenfresh]

Don't tell me to read the non-existent manual for this please. On Hive's oscillators you can set the trigger to reset, random, and flow. I understand reset and random. But what is flow?

[dumbledog]

It's buried deep in the preview thread.

1) OSC trigger mode flow?

Osc phase of a new note picks up where the last one is/was. This allows mono-patches to have continuous beating between oscillators throughout a melody or something. In poly patches one can use this to start chords with the same beating/phasing for all notes.

It's a matter of taste. It's less important than random or reset, but in some cases desirable.

2) Explain engine modes Normal, Dirty, Clean.

Normal: exponential detune, s-shaped attack, short, punchy decays, oversampled ladder filter with non-linear resonance, self oscillating

Dirty: Even space detune, exponential envelopes, oversampled, highly non-linear Steiner-Parker filter, self oscillating, unpredictable. Bit like the MS-20 filters, but built with an unbuffered diode ring (it's a bit like everyone does Sallen-Key nowadays, so I wanted to go that extra mile for something unusual).

Clean: Wide detune, linear attack, exponential decay/release, not oversampled and absolutely linear State Variable Filter

All filters are based on nodal analysis of ideal parts. I used the same trick as in Bazille to make Normal and Dirty non-linear. It's all about a hell of a lot of tweaking until it sounds almost as good as the real deal, at a fraction of the CPU.

- Urs

[Erkenfresh]

Thanks Dumbledog! That makes good sense.