1. First steps in Reaktor Core - Native Instruments

3. Reaktor Core fundamentals: the core signal model
3.1. Values
Most of the outputs of Reaktor Core modules produce values. (Producing a
value means that at any moment in time there is a value associated with the
output.) The values are available to all modules whose inputs are connected
to those outputs.
In the following example an adder module gets values 2 and 3 from the two
modules whose outputs are connected to its inputs, and it produces a value
of 5 at its output.
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If you want to draw an analogy to the hardware world you can think of
values as signal levels (voltages), especially with relatively large-scale
modules such as oscillators, filters, envelopes, and so on. However,
values are not limited to those kinds of processing—they are just values
and can be used to implement any processing algorithm, not just voltage-modeling
algorithms.
3.2. Events
Time is not continuous in the digital world; it is discrete. Probably the most
familiar example of this is that a digitally stored recording doesn’t store the
full information about an audio signal, which is continuously changing over
time, but rather stores only information about the signal level at regularly
spaced points in time. The number of points per second bears the famous
name of sampling rate.
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