User Guide

Data Types & Signal Flow
FlowBotics Studio supports over 30 different types of data. Each type has it’s own connector with a unique symbol for easy recognition.
Although there are many different types of data they all fall into one of three different categories: Stream, Triggered or Event.
Stream data covers all digital audio and control signals. These signals are fluctuating at sampling rate and so any components which
process them will also perform calculations at sampling rate.
Triggered data works in a completely different way. Where stream data is continuously flowing, triggered data only flows in response to
some event. Usually the event is a user interaction or data arriving from some external source like an interface card or a timer.
Event data is similar to triggered data in that it flows in response to some event. However, the way in which it flows is quite different.
Note that in the vast majority of cases data flows from left to right, by this we mean from output connector to input connector. This is true for
all Stream and all Event data but there are a few exceptions with some of the triggered data types.
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