gating · one line shaped by another

One line, gated by another

A steady run:

run: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Thinned — keep every other step, rest the rest:

thin: { op: decimate, keep_every: 2 }   # 1 . 3 . 5 . 7 .

Gated — a second line decides where the run sounds; where the gate is 0, the run goes silent:

gate:  1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0
gated: { op: mask, line: gate }         # 1 2 . . 5 6 . .

Masking is the studio gate, written as one line shaping another point for point — the same primitive that pairs a value with its co-indexed context everywhere else in the engine.