1. First steps in Reaktor Core - Native Instruments

The name “Modulation”, although not 100% correct, still reflects their purpose
of using one signal to modulate another. (That will be especially easy to
see later, when we use control signals to modulate audio signals in low-level
structures). Most of the modulation macros combine two signals, one is carrier
and the other is modulator. Unlike built-in arithmetic core modules, the
modulation macros generate output events only in response to events at the
carrier input. The events at the modulator input do not trigger the recalculation
process.
The internal implementation of modulation macros is very simple, they just
latch the modulator signal, the latch being clocked by the carrier. Here is an
example of a modulation multiplier macro’s internal structure:
The latch at the modulatior input (a) ensures that the modulator value will be
sent to the multiplier only when the event at the carrier input arrives.
Here we replace the subtraction module by the a – x modulation macro and
the second multiplication module by x mul a modulation macro. This is how
our structure is going to look after the replacement (we also replaced the
Const modules with QuickConst, but that’s unimportant):
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