Channel
A channel is a sequence of numbers (also known as Samples) that can represent motion, control signals, MIDI, audio, color maps, rolloff curves or lookup tables. Channels can be Exported to Parameters.
A CHOP generated and outputs one or more channels. The group of one or more channels created by a CHOP is called a Clip. A clip is what a CHOP outputs.
Each channel of a CHOP has a channel name that can be set by the user.
Channels are passed between CHOPs in TouchDesigner networks.
A channel can also be Exported to a Parameter of any operator, overriding that parameter's value.
Channel Namesedit
Channel names can contain numbers, English letters (A-Z a-z), and the special characters -
, _
, :
, and /
. Other characters will be automatically converted to _
.
Common practice is to use only lower-case letters for channel names and _
.