Typed Rings
CITO operators exchange typed streams. A stream is not just a generic channel table; it has a named shape and a stable meaning.
Current Preview Types
Section titled “Current Preview Types”The current package uses typed surfaces such as:
- audio mono and stereo streams
- control streams
- MIDI event streams
- note lane streams
- note voice streams
- chord state streams
- scale streams
- timeline state streams
- spectrum streams
Why Typed Streams Help
Section titled “Why Typed Streams Help”Typed streams let operators agree about what a connection means. A drum operator can consume note lanes, a synth can consume note voices, a timeline operator can publish beat state, and an audio effect can process stereo audio without guessing from channel names alone.
The same idea is intended to support lower-level tensor and external transport surfaces later, but those are outside the current package.