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Re: [motm] Annoying MOTM envelope behavior

2002-05-10 by elhardt@aol.com

As far as #2 and #3 problems, they are not of such a big concern to me.  For 
instance on #2, I can set the sustain level lower and be sure that decay is 
set to 0.  I noticed the problem probably by changing from one type of 
envelope to another and thought it strange that decay acted like attack.  
Somebody else seems to have noticed what I did (when sustain set to 10), the 
attack brings the envelope up to about 4 volts, then the decay basically 
decays in an upward direction (acting like attack) to the sustain level.

But my main problem is #1.  I will try to also use a vtrig from the Pro-2000 
to see if I can solve the problem that way.  If so then no need to worry 
about it further.  But if that doesn't work I don't know what to do other 
than drag my Doepfer upstairs and use its envelopes.  For those people who 
say they couldn't reproduce #1, I'm wondering whether your 800s are Rev A or 
Rev B.  You should really see the problem when playing relatively fast and/or 
legato.  It think the longer the release time the more obvious.  Playing like 
this pushes the output of the envelope higher and changes your sound 
according to where you've patched the envelopes to.  I almost get the 
impression that the release portion doesn't have time to drain the envelope 
back to 0v as it were, and the new note just builds ontop of the old one 
increasing the voltage.

I'll let you know whether a gate + vtrig solves the problem.

-Elhardt

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