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• D(ecay)
After the Master Volume value has been reached, the level starts to drop. How long this should take is governed
by the Decay parameter.
If you want to emulate the volume envelope of a note played on a piano for example, the Attack should be set to
“0”, the Decay parameter should be set to a medium value and the Sustain level should be set to “0”, so that the
volume gradually decreases down to silence, even if you keep holding the key down. Should you want the decay to
drop to some other value than zero, you raise the Sustain parameter.
•S(ustain)
The Sustain parameter determines the level the envelope should rest at, after the Decay stage. If you set Sustain
to full level, the Decay setting is of no importance since the volume of the sound is never lowered.
If you want to emulate the volume envelope of an organ, you theoretically only really need to use the Sustain pa-
rameter set to full level, as a basic organ volume envelope instantly goes to the maximum level (Attack “0”) and
stays there (Decay “0”), until the key is released and the sound instantly stops (Release “0”).
But often a combination of Decay and Sustain is used to generate envelopes that rise up to the Volume value, then
gradually decreases to finally land to rest on a level somewhere in-between zero and the Master Volume value.
Note that Sustain represents a level, whereas the other envelope parameters represent times.
•R(elease)
The Release parameter works just like the Decay parameter, except it determines the time it takes for the volume
to drop back to zero after you release the key.
The Delay section
This is a stereo delay which affects all voices globally.
Delay On/Off
D Click the On/Off LED button to switch on/off the Delay section.
Time
D Set the time between the delay repeats.
If Sync is active (see below), the Time parameter controls the time divisions.