Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:17:02 -0000, "dragoh75 <dragoh75@...>"
<dragoh75@...> wrote:

>Can you explain how you use envelope 3 in conjunction with the filter 
>envelope ?

Sure, you just give it the same destination as the filter envelope
(cutoff) and set up a slightly different shape. I would tend to create
a more sloping filter envelope with a decay that is a little slower
than normal and decaying to a non-zero sustain level. Balancing filter
envelope amount, cutoff and keyfollow gets a nice feel. Then, to
introduce extra "zap", create a much shorter envelope in envelope 3
decaying quickly to zero and point this at cutoff too. The extra zap
will make quite a difference, I find. Another good trick is to use one
of the free modulation slots to have a small amount of resonance
modulation controlled by an envelope too - this works best with the 4
pole filter as the 2 pole doesn't seem very responsive to resonance.

It would probably be easier still if envelope decay was a modulation
destination.

Does that help?

Paul
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