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I read about something called the envelooper for the 300 series 
systems.  I'm guessing this module never made it past the 
planning/prototype stage.  What were the fucntions fo this module?  
Is there a chance this module or a single envelator will be reborn in 
the 1200 series?

It started rather simply as just an dual ADSR with a hold 
monostable so it could be looped. Along the way, it turned into a 
hybrid digital device like the Mini-Wave.

Each section has 8 variations and a speed control. So attack is 
one 256 byte page, then decay is a 256 byte page, sustain loops 
a 256 byte page, and release is a 256 byte page. Each one has 
an individual rate control.

So it is like a Mini-Wave setup as a typical envelope generator. A 
poor mans MARF if you will. Any waveform can be used as an 
envelope, when run at CV rates.

At audio rates and looped, it forms a kind of crude granular 
synthesis (only 4 grains) but the grains can be varied under 
voltage control.

Another design for the Martians. I should change the company 
motto to "By Appointment to the Royal Houses of Mars". Too 
much Edgar Rice Bourroughs when I was growing up.

Edgar Rice Bourroughs wrote the "Tarzan" series and "John 
Carter of Mars" which was basically Tarzan on Mars. Good 
swashbuckling fun and the Martian chessboard has ten squares 
per side instead of eight...

But that is a whole other story.

--- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, "ethanzer0" 
<ethanzer0@y...> wrote:
> I read about something called the envelooper for the 300 
series 
> systems.  I'm guessing this module never made it past the 
> planning/prototype stage.  What were the fucntions fo this 
module?  
> Is there a chance this module or a single envelator will be 
reborn in 
> the 1200 series?