More about 3310 and envelopes

[Goddard, Duncan]

>>>When a vibrating Guitar String is plucked again, I guess it will stop
> vibrating
> as long as the finger touches the string. (?)
> When the reed of an electric piano is hit with the damper open, some
> of the newly applied energy might add to the sustaining note's energy<<<
> 
I don't agree entirely- in either of these examples, the vibrating element
is momentarily brought to an abrupt standstill before starting to oscillate
again. the only things in real life that carry on vibrating (and getting
louder) even if you stand there hitting them on one side over and over are
big things like bells and gongs. bowed instruments are somewhere in between.

one or two synths- including the memorymoog- offer two different behaviours
when the same note is retriggered- the attack portion will either "pick up"
from whatever level the envelope is at when the new trigger arrives, or
it'll start from zero, no matter how far through the envelope the generator
has got. musically, I'd argue, this is a relatively new effect.

d.


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