transient designer effect

anyway to emulate this with an eg, cp251, etc?



"The Attack control circuitry uses two envelope generators. The first follows the shape of the original curve rendering conventional Attack and Release controls superfluous, while the second generator produces the envelope Env 2 with a slower Attack. The hatched area shows the difference between Env 1 and Env 2, and the VCA control voltage is derived from this difference. Positive Attack values emphasize Attack events, negative Attack values smooth out the Attack envelopes of events.

The Sustain control circuitry

The Sustain control circuitry includes two further envelope generators. The envelope follower Env 3 again follows the shape of the original curve rendering conventional Attack and Release controls superfluous. For a longer period the envelope generator Env 4 holds the sustain level according to the peak level and the VCA control voltage is generated by the difference between Env 3 and Env 4. The sustain is extended at positive settings and shortened at negative settings."

You need a pair of VCADSR (Like Moon 511) and a couple of VCAs. You will also need 2 pair of envelope followers (Q-119) if I get their description. Sounds like a very Buchlaesque function generator.

I am not sure what they mean by sustain, because they refer to it as a time parameter, but conventional synth sustain is an amplitude adjustment. Do they mean release or decay?

It IS an amplitude adjustment… that’s held for a specific time period. :wink:
I’d guess the programmer doesn’t understand how standard envelope generators work and uses the term incorrectly.