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Subject: Re: [korgpolyex] Accent Envelope

From: Alex Drinkwater <the_voder@...>
Date: 2009-01-16

On 15 Jan 2009, at 23:59, Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 23:46 +0000, Alex Drinkwater wrote:
>> I was just reading a review of the Future Retro XS, and it mentioned
>> it had something called an 'Accent Envelope'. This is apparently a
>> separate envelope that can be configured to take over from the
>> default
>> envelope with MIDI velocities over a threshold value. Is this an idea
>> we can steal for the Hawk-800 maybe? I guess you'd be able to specify
>> an Accent Env. for the filter, for example, and the threshold
>> velocity
>> value at which it would replace the standard filter env.
>
> Sounds like a great way to emulate the TB-303 accent. I won't go into
> the long and frankly terribly boring explanation of how it works.
> Suffice it to say that if you too are the sort of person who can be
> bothered to clone the TB-303 envelope circuitry just to measure its
> behaviour so you can write a software emulation, you might want to
> know
> the gory details.
>
> The 303 accent is more complex than you think.


I know that. I'm not looking for a completely authentic 303
emulation- I know you'd never get that from a Poly/EX-800. But
several people on the list have mentioned wanting various envelope
parameters to respond to MIDI velocity, so this might be a nice
simple, and flexible, way of achieving that.

a|x



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