russ-riss-et

R E A D E R
A tone built to climb forever tells you almost nothing about where it is. This rig reads back what it can. Copper is the truth; the cool trace is the reading. Turn up memory and watch the trade.
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cents off
gap between the true pitch and what the reader hears
true pitch reader's estimate
PHASE— Where in the octave the tone sits. Read cleanly — for now.
HEADING— Rising or falling. Recovered from motion only.
POSITIONlap — Which lap of the endless climb. Not in the tone — the tone repeats every octave.

THE MEMORY TRADE

Memory folds the recent past into the present sound. It blurs the pitch you can read now, and it's the only thing that lets the laps be told apart.

pitch blur0 cents off true
sharpsmeared
position legible0.00 lap separation
laps identicallaps distinct