Wavetable - scale envelopes with velocity

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mholloway
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Wavetable - scale envelopes with velocity

Post by mholloway » Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:45 pm

Currently you can only assign Velocity to modulate cutoff directly -- which is sort of a primitive setup, really.

The more 'typical' (and certainly more flexible + dynamic) approach is to modulate filter cutoff with an envelope, and then scale that envelope depth via velocity.

Many, many synths have this design -- yet Wavetable doesn't offer it.

I think it really should.

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Re: Wavetable - scale envelopes with velocity

Post by hoffman2k » Thu Mar 19, 2020 6:41 pm

I agree that we should be able to modulate the scale of individual envelopes.

There's a workaround, it takes some extra work but it does give you more options to fine-tune.
Assign an envelope to the filter, then map all envelope parameters to velocity.

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