Envelope (env), Sidstation – Elektron Sidstation User Manual
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Envelope (Env)
The first screen of the parameter menu for the envelope is seen below:
The envelope controls the variation of the oscillator volume over time. A string sound fades in
with a slow attack but a piano or a guitar string has a fast attack time. In this manner we can
control the characteristics of our sound. This can be described by the figure below:
The parameters are:
A (Attack):
The time the envelope takes to reach full level.
D (Decay):
The time it will take to reach the sustain level.
S (Sustain):
The volume level to keep when a key is held.
R (Release): The time it takes for the sound to fade out after the key is released.
All parameter values are defined from 0 to 15.
Value Attack
Rate
Decay/Release
Rate
0
2 ms
6 ms
1
8 ms
24 ms
2
16 ms
48 ms
3
24 ms
72 ms
4 38
ms
114
ms
5 56
ms
168
ms
6 68
ms
204
ms
7 80
ms
240
ms
8
100 ms
300 ms
9
240 ms
750 ms
10
500 ms
1.5 s
11
800 ms
2.4 s
12
1 s
3 s
13
3 s
9 s
14 5
s
15
s
15 8
s
24
s
Moving the focus to the extreme right accesses the second screen:
The Gate-switch, when active, replaces the SID chip hardware envelope found on screen 1 with
a software gate with amplitude of the Sustain. Since the SID envelope now is not used this gives