Audio Signal Flow Order - Serial / Parallel?

[niggles]

It's a bit hard to tell because the patches I'm designing are meant to "mangle" the sounds, but am I right in thinking that:

* if you add lots of individual patches the Input goes through each patch simultaneously and the output is the result of how each patch changes the sound i.e the Output is the result of how each patch individually processes the sound i.e output = Patch A + Patch B + Patch C

* but if you write a complex patch where Output A is then fed into patch B and then Output B is fed into patch C etc... that Output A is modified by B and Output B is modified by C... i.e at each step it is working with an already modified signal rather than the original audio input i.e A -> B == A {transformed} -> C == B {transformed} [meaning effects are cumulative]

The attached image shows the process with A -> B -> C as a chain and then as Individual patches.



Hope the question makes sense.

[oli_lab]

Serial or // ?
I'd say serial AND //
use a matrix to muster the intrecacies of routing and feedback !

cheers

[niggles]

I haven't explored any Matrix functions (?) yet - just trying to write my own patches and logic before doing some Fast-script experiments - I learn best from doing it the hard way and then making it modular (OOP) once I know how it all works

[ceasless]

I think he means the Matrix patches, specifically "matrix of audio". I've never used it myself yet, but I believe it allows you to route different audio signals (represented by columns?) to different audio paths/outputs (represented by rows?). Hopefully someone who knows can provide a few more details.

[oli_lab]

quite easy, just watch out for feedback on the diagonals...

[niggles]

Hmm, doesn't answer the question - does chaining the FX modify the previous input as opposed to the raw sample (complex patch picture) as opposed to operating simultaneously on the raw sample (individual patches picture)

[oli_lab]

I'm not sure I understood the question.

if you put each FX in a patch, it is //
chained is serial

O_o