Reaper phase invert button?

That was helpful. Just started using Reaper. I had no idea a phase inversion button was there. I saw this and realized that I had to move the track window over to make more space for the detail. Voila! Phase button. Thanks.
 
It's inverting polarity BTW, phase is a relationship between two signals. It can't be inverted, as such...
 
Armistice said:
It's inverting polarity BTW, phase is a relationship between two signals. It can't be inverted, as such...
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Yep. Common labeling error. Phase and polarity are closely related and sometimes indistinguishable but are not interchangeable.

Phase is a timing difference between two signals, measured in degrees at a given frequency. You can't "invert phase" of a musical signal with just a switch.
 
bouldersoundguy said:
Phase is a property of a single frequency, but the value is relative to a second real or imaginary reference wave.
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Not really. Phase is the angle of the wave at a given moment. Phase difference is the offset as compared to another wave. One can invert the phase of a single wave (i.e. flip about the x axis) without needing any reference to another wave (which was the original point I'm arguing the toss about).
 
jonny deep said:
Not really. Phase is the angle of the wave at a given moment.
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Okay, I'll go with that.

jonny deep said:
Phase difference is the offset as compared to another wave. One can invert the phase of a single wave (i.e. flip about the x axis) without needing any reference to another wave (which was the original point I'm arguing the toss about).
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My main concern here is that by using the same term, phase, for inversion on the x axis (amplitude) and shifting along the y axis (time) people will think they are the same when they are not. Even if phase is the scientifically correct term for both there is a huge practical advantage to distinguishing between them.
 
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