How do Wigout and TrikTraks compose waveforms?

Both Wigout and TrikTraks use elements that are joined together to form states.

An element has a duration and an amplitude.

Its duration is specified in samples, and its amplitude is a number between +32767 and -32768.

The waveform described above, has four elements:

• element 1: 20 samples, +30000 amplitude
• element 2: 30 samples, -20000 amplitude
• element 3: 10 samples, +16000 amplitude
• element 4: 40 samples, -5000 amplitude

After defining your elements, you define a state that uses your elements. The state defined above is:

• state 1: element 1, element 2, element 3, element 4

And it looks like this:

The same four elements could be used to define a different state:

• state 2: e2, e4, e1, e3, e1, e4, e3

And the waveform would look like this:

These two steps are the fundamentals for using both Wigout and TrikTraks:

• 1. Define a collection of elements.
• 2. From those elements, define a collection of states.

The rest of this introduction describes how the information contained in elements and states is converted into frequency and loudness.