`t_` argument for re-trigger? Please clarify stackoverflow post

Hello, I am trying to re-trigger an envelope after the synth is created. I found this StackOverflow post, but it’s unclear to me how it works.

The issue seems to be that as long as the argument that re-triggers the pitch envelope starts with t_ it works, but all other argument names do not. So wired. Here is an example:

(
SynthDef(\test,
    {
        |freq = 300, gate = 1, amp = 0.2, t_ = 0, pDec = 1|
        var sig, aEnv, pEnv;
        aEnv = EnvGen.kr(Env.cutoff(5, curve: \exp), gate, doneAction:2);
        pEnv = EnvGen.kr(Env.new([0, pDec], [1], \sine), t_) * freq;
        sig = SinOsc.ar(freq + pEnv, mul: amp * aEnv);
        Out.ar(0, sig ! 2);
    }
).add;
)

x = Synth(\test);
x.set(\t_, 1, \pDec, 1);
x.set(\t_, 1, \pDec, 10);
x.set(\t_, 1, \pDec, 5);

Each subsequent set changes the pitch of the output. This other example however only lets me trigger the pitch env once. The only difference I can tell is the argument name changed from t_ to p_. Is there something special about this name?

(
SynthDef(\test,
    {
        |freq = 300, gate = 1, amp = 0.2, p_ = 0, pDec = 1|
        var sig, aEnv, pEnv;
        aEnv = EnvGen.kr(Env.cutoff(5, curve: \exp), gate, doneAction:2);
        pEnv = EnvGen.kr(Env.new([0, pDec], [1], \sine), p_) * freq;
        sig = SinOsc.ar(freq + pEnv, mul: amp * aEnv);
        Out.ar(0, sig ! 2);
    }
).add;
)

x = Synth(\test);
x.set(\p_, 1, \pDec, 1);
x.set(\p_, 1, \pDec, 10);
x.set(\p_, 1, \pDec, 5);

Thanks,

Hi,

see the help file

http://doc.sccode.org/Classes/SynthDef.html

where it is explained in detail ( paragraph “UGen Graph Functions and Special Argument Forms”, see also the example section )

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… just came to my mind: please go sure to look it up in a recent version of SC. The example with trigger args had several mistakes, which came up last year, but have been corrected meanwhile: