Module order of processing and signal chain.

[WaterSpoon]

Hello my HISE friends!!!

I am looking to understand the order of process of modules. I have read in some forum posts that some modules process audio before others by default. I read this about filters. Does that mean that no matter what place they are inserted in the module tree they will process before other elements?

1. Is there an order of operations in HISE for the modules.
   2.Once i place module in let's say the master fx chain , can I change the order around? (Example: i added a saturation and than a reverb in the chain, but now i want to try the reverb before the saturation)?

Currently I am rebuilding the whole chain to try a different order.

Thanks for your insights!

Best Success

Will

[Christoph Hart]

The order is always top-down as you see it in the module tree with the single exception of the FX modules of a container being rendered after its child sound generators (so if you have a sine generator in the master chain and a reverb in the master chain, it will process the sine output through the reverb).

When it comes to the FX chain, there are polyphonic and monophonic effects and polyphonic effects are always rendered before the monophonic FX (aka Master FX), but this is reflected in the Module Tree (if you add a Filter after a Phaser it will jump to the top).

[d.healey]

@Christoph-Hart When you're doing the next batch of doc updates, everything you just said, should go in, if it isn't already.

[WaterSpoon]

@Christoph-Hart This makes sense. Thank you! Is there a way to reorder fx modules once added?

[d.healey]

@WaterSpoon Click the pencil icon in the top left, then you can click and drag the modules around. It's a bit finicky, especially if you have a lot of modules, but it gets the job done.

[WaterSpoon]

@d-healey Thank you David. I am using the Master HISE build was this added in Develop? I can drag the interface items around in the interface editor. but in the module tree I am not finding this feature. I can select the module both fx's and signal generators but they do not move.

[d.healey]

@WaterSpoon said in Module order of processing and signal chain.:

was this added in Develop

Probably

[WaterSpoon]

@d-healey Got ya. Thank you!!!

[clevername27]

@Christoph-Hart I'm assuming you mean top-down within a container, not the containers themselves?

In this module tree, I don't see how the fx_OUTPUT_Limiter_Master_PS (i.e., a stock HISE dynamics processor) could render before the Sampler container?

[d.healey]

@clevername27 said in Module order of processing and signal chain.:

could render before the Sampler container?

I think that's what he meant by

the single exception of the FX modules of a container being rendered after its child sound generators

So the audio goes from the sound generator, up into the container and then down through the container's fx chain.

[clevername27]

@d-healey Cheers - thanks.

[WaterSpoon]

@d-healey To follow up - yes the drag and move modules was in the develop. All set with that. Thank you.

[A Former User]

@WaterSpoon sidenote: you pretty much always want to be building with the develop branch, since it's quite a few commits ahead of master