1. First steps in Reaktor Core - Native Instruments

It is important to understand that turning the processing mode
of an operation to integer and converting of a floating point result
of the same operation to an integer is not the same. Let’s consider
an example. Here we are adding two numbers 2.4 and 4.3
as floats. The result is clearly 6.7, which when converted to integer
will produce 7. So the output of the following structure is 8:
Now if we change the mode of the first adder to integer, instead
of adding 2.4 and 4.3 we will add their rounded versions
which are 2 and 4 respectively, producing 6. So the result is 7:
Clock inputs completely ignore their incoming values, therefore they are normally
always floats. Furthermore, signal type conversion will not be performed
for the signals that are used only as clocks:
Here the clock input of the Read module is still float although the module has
been set to integer mode (the OBC ports look the same regardless whether
they are float or integer).
Integer feedback is automatically resolved in the same way as float
feedback – by inserting an integer mode Z^-1 module (of course no
denormal canceling is needed here).
7.3. Building an event counter
Let’s build an event counter macro. The function of this macro is similar to an
event accumulator, but instead of summing the values of events, this one will
just count them. Integer signal type seems a logical choice for counting:
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