Audio Damage Tattoo - Manual (Page 21)

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Noise Amp Envelope
The Noise Amp Envelope controls the loudness of the noise over the duration of the snare sound. You can
lengthen the noise envelope to make the noise dominate the snare’s sound, shorten it so that the noise is
present only in the initial attack of the sound, etc.
The overall loudness of the noise is also controlled by the Noise Level knob, as described above.
Tone Amp Envelope
The Tone Amp Envelope controls the loudness of the tone oscillators over the duration of the snare sound.
Since you can control the noise and tone amplitude envelopes independently, you can create snare sounds
that range from the somewhat realistic to the entirely electronic.
Toms (Low, Mid, High)
Rather than copying any particular drum machine’s tom sounds directly, Tattoo’s tom voices are an Audio
Damage original. The three tom voices have the same sound-generating architecture and differ only in their
pitch ranges. Each has a pair of oscillators for creating the main body of the sound, one for the main tone of
the drum and one for the prominent third harmonic present in drum sounds. A third oscillator and a noise
source are added to strengthen the initial transient of the sound, simulating the click created by the stick
hitting the drum head.
Tune
The Tune knob controls the pitch of the tom’s tone oscillators. Turn it clockwise to make the pitch higher,
anti-clockwise to make the pitch lower. The two oscillators have a fixed frequency ratio so this knob controls
both of them.
Pitch EG
The Pitch EG knob controls how much the tom’s pitch changes over the duration of its sound. If this knob is
rotated fully anti-clockwise, the sound has the same pitch from start to finish. As you turn the knob clockwise,
the tone will start at a higher pitch and bend downwards. Small amounts of pitch bend make the initial portion
of the tom sound more prominent; large amounts of pitch bend recreate the “pyewwww” electronic tom
sounds that fell out of fashion when the disco era ended (probably with good reason).