[sdiy] Wondering about function generators for envelopes

[Greg Amann]

Encore makes it's "Event Generator".  8 step loopable CV ootput.  Mine 
is in the mail.  :-)

PLL, BFG

(PS: never used the delete key so much in one day as I did on this list 
today - hooboy!)

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>> I don't know much about analog computation, I wonder why people don't
>> make more varied kinds of envelope generators. Is it because more
>> complex functions are difficult to make, or because people aren't
>> interested in more varied envelopes? Not neccessarily "arbitrary", but
>> just different than setting four amplitude levels. Say, for instance,
>> four (or more) points with controls for how quickly we go between them,
>> amplitude of each point, and ways of describing various transitions or
>> interpolations between them. Or even just modules for a function which
>> offers a few variables which produce decent musical envelopes. It seems
>> obvious, but I never see anything like this. All of my web searches
>> yield endless links to benchtop function generator units, rather than
>> people designing and making various kinds of functions. I have Korn and
>> Korn's 1950's book on computation at my parents house, but it being all
>> tube-oriented is a bit confusing to me.
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>> Does anybody do this sort of thing? Using a sequencer, Jim's cool EG,
>> rate-settable and/or chainable ADSRs sounds neat - but there is
>> something else which should exist that eludes me.
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>> CJ
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