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Timeline and Patches

Timeline and Patches

Keep a sound playing while changing which effects are active around it. The timeline sets when each effect runs, as well as its settings.

Overview

The first passage keeps a sound and its effects in one interval: they share a lifetime. The second separates the source from two effect intervals, letting you activate and end them independently.

Cables define where audio can go; intervals determine when the connected processes run. A passage can therefore move between treatments without restarting its source.

Try it

Open the ZIP directly in score, configure audio output at a low level, and ensure Faust and Airwindows are available. The sounds are included.

  • Play the first interval and alter its filter automation. Listen to a change within the passage while the source and effects remain active together.
  • Activate Trigger me first, then Then me. Listen for the treatment that appears when the effect interval starts, even though the source already began.
  • Activate Finally me to switch to the second effect interval. End the source and the effects separately: ending the source removes the input, while ending an effect removes its processing.
  • Switch between timeline and nodal views. Follow one audio connection in nodal view, then find the intervals that govern its source and destination in the timeline.

Use Ctrl+click or Ctrl+drag in the nodal view to select several processes, then move or copy them together. Cable drags can start from a port’s name as well as its circle. See Editing workflow for replacement, auto-scrolling and nested paste behavior.

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