Synth amplitude envelope

settings and use cases

Hi, my name is Yves, I’m from Belgium.

In this presentation I will demonstrate some common used settings for an amplitude envelope in a synth program

Hello

The synth I’m using is amSynth on Linux

Synth

The amplitude envelope section is marked with AMP ENV:

Amplitude Envelope

Attack: shortDecay: shortSustain: maximumRelease: short

Example usage: organ

Setting 1: switch

Attack: shortDecay: medium to longSustain: zeroRelease: ~ equal to decay

Example usage: Xylophone

Setting 2: Percussive

Attack: shortDecay: slightly longer than percussiveSustain: zeroRelease: fairly short

Example usage: piano

Setting 3: Damped percussive

Attack: shortDecay: mediumSustain: mediumRelease: ~ equal to decay

Example usage: strings

Setting 4: Sustaining (bowed/blown)

Attack: shortDecay: mediumSustain: zeroRelease: long

Example usage: electronic music/trance

Setting 5: Quirk

This concludes the main basic settings for a synth.

Of course there are a lot of other possibilities and things to finetune !

Thank you for watching !

Thank you !