Hi,

I've been dissecting this drum patch attached, taken from this larger patch:

http://itp.nyu.edu/dataflow/uploads/tgb-pure.tar.gz

It seemed pretty straightforward to me, until I came across the part where noise~ is running through an osc~. What I don't understand is the osc~ receiving two signals from its left inlet at the same time. I can't see how it would deal with that, does it add the signals, or multiply them, or ignore one?

Maybe since osc~ outputs a value between 1 and -1, it only exists to reduce the volume of the noise~ multiplied by a large number. Then again, the speaker can't deal with a value higher than 1 or lower than -1, so I don't get how it makes a difference. If anyone could explain this to me it would be appreciated.

Thanks

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/boom.pd

Anytime a signal inlet receives more than one connection, they are all summed. This is basically just FM using noise as the modulator.