Global Modulator Container

Type ID: GlobalModulatorContainer
Interface classes: RoutingMatrix

A Container for Global Modulators

The Global Modulator Container can hold Modulators that are not directly linked with a Sound Generators chain. They only create their modulation signal.

You can fetch these Modulators with the "Global.."-Modulators all over your Module architecture. This makes it possible to use the same Modulator in different locations.

• GlobalVoiceStartModulator - Fetches global Voice Start Modulators
• GlobalStaticTimeVariantModulator - Fetches a Time Variant Modulator, but takes a static Voice-Start value from its current variant value.
• GlobalTimeVariantModulator - Fetches global Time Variant Modulators

Global Envelopes

With the release of HISE 3.5.0 it is now possible to also use envelope modulators (= polyphonic, time-variant modulation sources) as a global modulation source. Before this update, this wasn't possible because of this reason:

You can't use envelope modulators as global modulators. The reason for this is that a envelope modulator is quite complex (it can change the release time of a note, otherwise it would be a pretty useless envelope) and that would lead to a lot of unintended consequences. Read more about this in a post about the Global Modulator System .

The solution to the problem described in the link above is to unify the voice allocation for all sound generators. This can be done using the scripting API call Synth.setUseUniformVoiceHandler() .