[sdiy] fast-attack EGs and trigger sync
Seb Francis
seb at burnit.co.uk
Tue Nov 11 14:43:59 CET 2008
Richard Wentk wrote:
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> Sonically I'm not sure why anyone would want a 0.1ms attack time.
> There aren't many applications where that would be musically useful,
> because your ear can't hear transients which are that fast.
>
Well I'm not sure this is completely true. There's a significant
audible different between a compressor set with an attack time of 0.1ms
vs 1ms. Perhaps this is more noticeable since the sound starts loud and
gets quietened during the attack phase.
> I'm told that a good click elimination trick with some patches is to
> sync the VCOs to the envelope trigger pulse, so that the VCO cycle is
> always locked to the start of the envelope.
Sounds to me like the way to go.
Seb
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