Clock

The patch's metronome: fires triggers in time with the BPM

Open in the synth with a demo patch Open Modular

What it does

Clock is the heartbeat of everything rhythmic: it emits an event at the chosen division of the bar, from 4 bars down to a 1/16. It makes no sound itself, but it drives everything that reacts to events: random notes, sequencers, envelopes. Gate sets how long each event lasts as a percentage of the interval; for a Voice, that is how long a note holds before its Release begins.

Try this

Connect Clock to Sequencer, then change the tempo and hear the patch speed up.

Ports

out: Triggers

Parameters

Division · Gate · Swing · Humanize

Try this

Two Clocks with different divisions (1/8 and 2 bars) driving different voices create a polyrhythm that never quite repeats.
Set Gate to 90% with a long attack on the Voice and notes will stretch and overlap.
Clock → Chance 40% is the fastest way to make a rhythm uneven and alive.

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