The Trigger Riot is an innovative trigger sequencer never seen before, therefore learning to use it might take a while and require an understanding of the concept. The concept is very simple to understand, the TR generates or takes in a clock signal, each of the knobs can be used as one or both of the following to enerate streams of triggers and gates at the outputs:
- Programmable Clock Divider (divider)
- Clock sequencer (steps)
Once those are set, then a set of clock manipulator “effects” can be applied to the streams of triggers/gates. These effects are:
- Likelihood of trigger output (probability)
- Trigger stream whole clock offset (clock shift)
- Trigger stream fractional clock offset (time shift)
- Trigger stream multiplication fractional clock extractor (speed)
- Pulse width modulator (pulse width)
The Trigger Riot is a highly accurate clock source: it has 8 outputs, each can have up to 4 clock divisions and each of these divisions can be assigned a probability of triggering, clock shifting, time shifting, fractional clock multiplication, and pulse width. Additionally, each output has 4 steps that do not repeat like a division.