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I had this bright idea for creating an envelope follower
from the current offering of modules, and while it does
work somewhat, it is not quite "there," and I'm trying to
figure out why.

Here's what I did. I took the output from my guitar preamp
and ran it into both sides of the ring modulator. This
should create a sort of rectified signal. I then took the
output and ran it into the lag processor, which should
give independent attack and release times for the rectified
signal. I set UP (attack) to min and DOWN (release) to about
5. I ran this output to the FM input of a filter, and my
guitar preamp out to the input of the filter. The filter
does follow the input amplitude somewhat.

I guess I'm wondering if my assumption about the ring mod
doing rectification is correct. I know it is true for a sin
wave. Perhaps if I used the 700 to switch between +/- 5
on the zero crossing of the guitar signal, and used this
for the Y-input of the ring mod?

Tomy