<![CDATA[How to turn an [osc~ 440] on and off using a toggle?]]>I have the following patch. But whenever I click on the toggle the sound is interrupted and then I can't turn it back on by clicking on the same toggle. How to solve it?

[toggle]
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[osc~ 440]
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[dac~]

]]>http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/14336/how-to-turn-an-osc-440-on-and-off-using-a-toggleRSS for NodeSun, 19 Apr 2026 18:34:05 GMTSat, 22 Apr 2023 20:06:00 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to How to turn an [osc~ 440] on and off using a toggle? on Sat, 22 Apr 2023 20:06:00 GMT]]>I have the following patch. But whenever I click on the toggle the sound is interrupted and then I can't turn it back on by clicking on the same toggle. How to solve it?

[toggle]
|
[osc~ 440]
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[dac~]

]]>http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/14336/how-to-turn-an-osc-440-on-and-off-using-a-togglehttp://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/14336/how-to-turn-an-osc-440-on-and-off-using-a-toggleSat, 22 Apr 2023 20:06:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to turn an [osc~ 440] on and off using a toggle? on Sat, 22 Apr 2023 20:34:51 GMT]]>Use the toggle not as a frequency control, but rather as a volume control -- multiply the osc~ by the toggle.

More precisely: In a synthesizer, the thing that turns notes on and off is an envelope, controlling the volume. The idea of "turning off the oscillator" isn't the modular synthesis way. I guess... start with toggle-as-volume and then later discuss how to change that into an envelope.

hjh

]]>http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/14336/how-to-turn-an-osc-440-on-and-off-using-a-toggle/2http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/14336/how-to-turn-an-osc-440-on-and-off-using-a-toggle/2Sat, 22 Apr 2023 20:34:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to turn an [osc~ 440] on and off using a toggle? on Sat, 22 Apr 2023 21:51:41 GMT]]>@lucassilveira When you use the [toggle] to the left inlet of the [osc~ 440] you are changing its frequency...... to 1Hz when the [toggle] is on and 0Hz when it is off.
You can hear neither.
Two methods are shown below..
BUT..... you should use the second, as @ddw_music suggests..... because with the first method the oscillator will output 0Hz when the [toggle] is off...... but depending on when you toggled it off within its cycle it will be sending a DC signal between +1 and -1 which is bad for your speakers when sent to the [dac~]

I other circumstances you might want that though..... to freeze a bouncing ball animation for example.
David.

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This is awesome. I made this little change and it works.
Thank you very much, guys. You're great.

]]>http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/14336/how-to-turn-an-osc-440-on-and-off-using-a-toggle/4http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/14336/how-to-turn-an-osc-440-on-and-off-using-a-toggle/4Sat, 22 Apr 2023 23:55:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to turn an [osc~ 440] on and off using a toggle? on Sun, 23 Apr 2023 13:18:23 GMT]]>@whale-av Works for me too :)

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