Throughline Documentation

Throughline is a modular synthesizer for sound design, composition, and performance. The user guide on this site is shared with the plugin documentation so the instructions stay aligned across both surfaces.

Get Set Up

• Installation for macOS and Windows setup
• DAW Setup for host routing and transport sync
• Getting Started for your first patch

Patch Fundamentals

• Data Types and Conversion for audio, numbers, gates, MIDI, and explicit remapping
• Filters and Effects for building an audio signal chain
• Modulation and Envelopes for envelopes, LFOs, and routing movement into a patch
• Polyphony and Voices for the beta status of authored polyphony zones

Creative Systems

• Sequencing and Clock for clocks, arpeggiation, and DAW sync
• Math and Logic for scaling, comparison, thresholds, switching, and simple state
• Visuals for generating and animating images on the GPU

Workflow

• Inspecting Signals for monitors, meters, and analysers while you build
• Groups and Frames for the beta status of structural organisation tools
• Keyboard Shortcuts for faster editing

Reference

• Node Reference for the full node library generated from the canonical catalog

Principles

• The guides are hand-written and versioned by Throughline minor release line.
• The node reference is generated from the canonical node catalog.
• The plugin ships only the documentation that matches its own version line.