1. First steps in Reaktor Core - Native Instruments

3.3. Simultaneous events
Consider the situation in which the two modules on the left side in the previous
examples simultaneously produce an event.
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This is one of the key features of the Reaktor Core event model—events can
occur simultaneously at several places. In that situation, the events originating
at both the left-side modules will arrive at the inputs of the adder simultaneously,
and most importantly, the adder will produce exactly one output event
in response.
That is not the same as on the Reaktor primary level, where events cannot
happen simultaneously, and the Add module (in event mode) would
produce two output events in such a situation.
Of course, in reality, the events are not produced simultaneously by the upperleft
and the lower-left modules, because both modules are being processed
by the same CPU, and the CPU can process only one module at a time. But,
what is important for us, is that these events are logically simultaneous, that
is they are treated as simultaneous by the modules receiving them.
Here is another example of simultaneous event propagation:
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In the example above, the leftmost module is sending an event, changing its
output value from 2 to 3. The event is sent simultaneously to both the inverter
(–x) and the multiplier (*) modules. In response to the incoming event the
inverter will produce a new output value –3. It is important to notice that
although the output event of the inverter was produced in response to the
event sent by the leftmost module, and as such should happen later than the
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