@timothyschoen I wanted to share this with you but didn't want to junk up @lacuna's topic, https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/14101/get-phase-of-osc. Our discussion reminded me of something I learned from @katjav's blog during the pandemic, which is a way to implement the Hilbert transform by outputting the complex conjugate of the frequency domain terms. Jeez, sounds so complicated, but it's much easier to just see the patch:
phase preserving hilbert.pd
To me this is about as cool as it gets. Unlike hilbert~ it doesn't phase shift the original signal, but because the magic is done inside a reblocked FFT you have to wait a fixed amount of time for it. As usual, there's no free lunch.

Edit: No! No! No! It's not the complex conjugate, it's something else. But my main point still stands.

@jameslo Fantastic that you managed to solve this! I'm gonna try it right away. And @katjav's blog has helped me more times than I can count, it's such a good resource

@timothyschoen To be clear, I didn't "solve" anything, I'm just telling you something I learned from @katjav that I haven't already forgotten