Binary Operator Units

AddUnit

You guessed it right, AddUnit lets you add two signals together or add a specific value to one input signal (amplitude offset). The first case is actually rather rarely used when creating patches because all units have the basic capability of mixing input signals automatically when received on the same port.

multiple inputs on one port are added (mixed) together.

So AddUnit is most useful when offsetting a signal, e.g. to correct an existing DC offset.

In this example we scale and offset an audio file, so that it will play in the amplitude range from 0.0 to 1.0.

InputFile* input = new InputFile("<directory_to_the_file>/test_sound.aif");
AddUnit* add = new AddUnit();  

input->set("amplitude", 0.5); // half the amplitude, right now the file will have
                              // the range [-0.5, 0.5]
add->set("operand", 0.5); //+ 0.5 offset

input->connect(add); //[0.0, 1.0]
add->connect(output);

MultiplyUnit

Similar to AddUnit, MultiplyUnit has two usages. You can use it to multiply two signals with each other (amplitude modulation). Or you can use it to scale an input signal by a defined factor. On a side note, these two cases are internally the same. In both cases, the operand is a buffer - in the first cases the buffer is constantly filled by a second audio input and in the second case the whole buffer holds the same value.

Here is a code example for both cases.

InputFile* input1 = new InputFile("<directory_to_the_file>/test_sound.aif");
InputFile* input2 = new InputFile("<directory_to_the_file>/another_test_sound.aif");
MultiplyUnit* ampModulator = new MultiplyUnit();
MultiplyUnit* ampScale = new MultiplyUnit();

ampScale->set("operand", 0.5);

input1->connect(ampModulator);
input2->connect(ampModulator, "operand"); // not the default input, hence the "operand" 
                                          // string, defining the target input port

ampModulator->connect(ampScale);

ampScale->connect(output);

schematic of the two basic usages for the MultiplyUnit

someUnit->set("outputGain", 0.5); //scales the output by 0.5 

AbsUnit

AbsUnit is a ProcessUnit that will output the absolute values of the data. As an addition, you can define the offset threshold bellow which all values are mirrored upwards.

WaveTableOscil* osc = new WaveTableOscil("sinewave");
AbsUnit* abs = new AbsUnit();
abs->set("offset", -0.3);
osc->connect(abs);
abs->connect(outputUnit);

Above: input sinewave signal; Below: output of AbsUnit with an offset of -0.3

LimiterUnit

WaveTableOscil* input = new WaveTableOscil("sinewave");
WaveTableOscil* threshMod1 = new WaveTableOscil("sinewave");
WaveTableOscil* threshMod2 = new WaveTableOscil("sinewave");
LimiterUnit* lim = new LimiterUnit();

input->set("frequency", 500.0);

threshMod1->set("frequency", 2.22222);
threshMod2->set("frequency", 1.1);
threshMod1->set("offset", 0.2);
threshMod2->set("offset", -0.2);

input->connect(lim);
thresh1->connect(lim, "thresh1");
thresh2->connect(lim, "thresh2");

lim->connect(m_output);

modulated limits using two sine wavetables to control a LimiterUnit

In case you just need a fixed value as threshold, you can set it by calling:

lim->set("thresh1", 0.8);
lim->set("thresh2", -0.8);

DeltaUnit

DeltaUnit calculates discrete derivatives of a signal in realtime. Or in the language of mere mortals: the change of a signal (first order) or the change of the change (2nd order) and so on:

Order 0: delta_t0 = signal_t0
Order 1: delta_t0 = signal_t0 - signal_t-1
Order 2: delta_t0 = (signal_t0 - signal_t-1) - (signal_t-1 - signal_t-2)
...

While using DeltaUnit, you will notice that because of the nature of this unit, it will attenuate low-frequent steady state signals while amplifying noisy or high-frequent signals, which can serve as a sort of transient filter.

The higher the order the more the DeltaUnits needs to look back in its buffer (or the previous buffer internally). The highest derivative order has the same value as the units internal frame rate per process buffer (512 by default).

Noise* inputSignal = new Noise();
DeltaUnit* delta = new DeltaUnit();
delta->set("order", 2.0); //2nd derivative
inputSignal->connect(delta);
delta->connect(outputUnit);

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