any is a generic term for every data type. When the terminal of a node is set to any , no matter what the data type of the receiving node’s terminal may be, terminals can be connected (using the black line) without any errors. However, since establishing actual communication depends on the implementation of both of the nodes internally, it is recommended not to use this data type as much as possible. The use of any data type is only limited to generally used nodes such as MultiFFT , DataLogger , SaveRawPCM and MatrixToMap .