module suggestion
2008-07-15 by Monroe Eskew
I thought I'd present this one to the Plan B audience first, since Plan B seems to be more on the quirky/creative/unusual side when it comes to module design.
How about an analog "Piano Envelope Generator"? In an acoustic piano, the sustain phase has a decay, followed by a more abrupt decay after the key is released. To mimic this, we might have the standard ADSR controls, but with two controls for the sustain phase:
1) Sustain Level
2) Sustain Decay Rate
Control 2 should be changeable from zero to some high rate. At zero, we get standard ADSR.
If we had voltage control for the Sustain Decay Rate, then we could mimic the natural way that lower resonant frequencies tend to sustain longer, as exemplified by a piano. It could also allow for the standard pedal effect that increases sustain time. A built in polarizer for this control would be ideal.
-Monroe
How about an analog "Piano Envelope Generator"? In an acoustic piano, the sustain phase has a decay, followed by a more abrupt decay after the key is released. To mimic this, we might have the standard ADSR controls, but with two controls for the sustain phase:
1) Sustain Level
2) Sustain Decay Rate
Control 2 should be changeable from zero to some high rate. At zero, we get standard ADSR.
If we had voltage control for the Sustain Decay Rate, then we could mimic the natural way that lower resonant frequencies tend to sustain longer, as exemplified by a piano. It could also allow for the standard pedal effect that increases sustain time. A built in polarizer for this control would be ideal.
-Monroe