<div dir="ltr">WAG: Because you don't hear the envelope, until it gets 'filled' with sound. In other words, the envelope contains (actually it shapes) the note event you hear. <div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Tim (sometimes guesswork is the only work I do) Servo<br>---<br>"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein<br><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Chromatest J. Pantsmaker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chromatest@azburners.org" target="_blank">chromatest@azburners.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I know this is probably a silly question, but....<div><br></div><div>I'm getting my fiance into synths and I was going over her new synth with her, explaining what a VCO is, VCF, etc... </div><div><br></div><div>Then I get to the EG (ADSR) and she asks me why it is called an envelope generator? </div><div><br></div><div>I said because it generates envelopes.</div><div><br></div><div>That wasn't good enough for her, and I don't have a better answer. I've been playing with and working on synths for decades, even took a synthesis class in college (they had the biggest Roland System 100M, I tell ya), but I don't know why they call it an envelope. Google searches have not been helpful.</div><div><br></div><div>Silly question, but can anybody explain?</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-c</div></font></span></div>
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