ALESIS ANDROMEDA A6 - Manual (Page 137)

Chapter 6: Modulation and Envelopes
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The A6 has three 7-stage loop-able envelope generators per voice. The parameters of
the envelopes are described on the following pages. Pressing a button or turning a
knob on any of the three envelope areas displays that parameter. You can also press
the
VIEW button on the desired envelope and then use any of the display’s soft knobs
and buttons to work with a specific parameter as well as its dedicated panel controls.
SOFT KNOB
PAGE TAB
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
TIME DELAY ATTACK D1TIME D2TIME R1TIME R2TIME SHAPE
LEVEL OFFSET LEVEL D2LEVL SUSTAIN R2LEVL POLAR 1
TRIG and SOURCE LEVEL POLAR ENABLE MODE
RETRIG 2 SOURCE LEVEL POLAR STAGE ENABLE MODE
DYN RESET SUSPDL KEYTRK KTBASE LVLTRK VELMOD RELMOD
LOOP START END COUNT TYPE SMOOTH SSHAPE BEAT
MOD1 SOURCE LEVEL OFFSET ENABLE DEST
MOD2 SOURCE LEVEL OFFSET ENABLE DEST
MOD3 SOURCE LEVEL OFFSET ENABLE DEST
1 The POLAR parameter does not appear for ENV3 .
2 The TRIG and RETRIG parameters (except MODE ) are only effective if MODE is set to MOD TRIG
or MOD TRIG/GATE .
Normally, each of the A6’s three envelope generators has a start level of 0, an end
level of 0 and four target levels in between. Each target level is achieved by a time
parameter as depicted in the illustration below.
Note the stages in the envelope’s cycle that are marked KEY PRESSED , KEY HELD DOWN ,
and KEY LET GO . Normally, these actions “cue” the envelope: Key Pressed tells the
envelope that a “Note On” has occurred: a key on the A6’s keyboard has been
played, a note has been played from the A6’s Sequencer or Arpeggiator, or a MIDI
Note has been received. This message starts the Delay, Attack, Decay1 and Decay2
stages will complete in succession as long as a Key is Held Down. Since in this