[sdiy] fast-attack EGs and trigger sync

[John Mahoney]

At 11:05 PM 11/10/2008, mcb, inc. wrote:

>Someone on [AH] brought up the question of fast attacking
>EGs with Cwejman's adsr-vc2 given as an example at 100uS.
>This recalled something I've thought about but never
>experimented with.  With fast attacks, would delaying the
>trigger to a zero crossing of the controlled signal (or
>even better a zero crossing of the root tone) produce
>an audible improvement at least when used to control
>a VCA?  Thoughts?

Yeah, that's basically how Schmidt trigger sharpens a signal.

How about using the trigger signal to drive the VCA, in conjunction 
with the EG? You could attenuate this attack pulse -- or not!

John (up too late)