source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:58:22 -0800 Subject: A wish list for microtonal synthesizers From: Steve Curtin >Hello! >Ensoniq? >Are you there? Yo. >Q: What's the most important part of any >synthesizer? >A: Envelopes, envelopes, envelopes! >The complexity of the synthesizer's envelopes >ENTIRELY determines how complex and subtle its >sounds can be. Don't forget the Buchla MARF, which stood for "Multiple Arbitrary Function Generator", which allowed for envelopes with any number of breakpoints and looping control based on real-time input. The 300 series analog and Touche and series 400 digital synths used these to great effect. The ADSR's time is long past. It's handy that our envelopes are loopable so you can use an envelope generator as a parametric-shape LFO. (forgive the topic drift) regards, Steve Curtin Ensoniq Corp Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 18:59 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA02448; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:59:38 -0800 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:59:38 -0800 Message-Id: <960113035035_71670.2576_HHB53-7@CompuServe.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu