Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 05:59:02 -0000, "thligrdd <onthesurface@...>"
<onthesurface@...> wrote:

>Well, I've never used a Pro-one, but judging from other users who 
>speak of it, it's a really punchy synth...punchy isn't really what 
>comes to mind when I think of the evolver...hmm, maybe I should 
>suggest that if possible, the envelopes be sped up. I would hope the 
>DSP's usage could be optimized to get the attack times shorter, 

My gut feeling is that is it the exponential decay shape, not the
attack time that is preventing those really zappy basses. I have got
very close to the sound I like (and could normally get easily) by
using envelope 3 in conjunction with the filter envelope to add an
extra "oomph" at the start of a filter blip. The two envelopes
together make a pretty punchy sound although, I admit, not "Pulse
Punchy".... ;-)

Other things that seem to affect punchiness are the keyboard tracking
of the filter (set this quite low) and the relationship of decay time
and sustain level - normally my filter envelope would have a zero
sustain but this just kills the sound too much because of the decay
shape. Am I making sense? Anyway, the third envelope is the key to me
- with the Evolver there's a way of doing "everything" - you just have
to figure it out <g>

Paul
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