Learn With Me - Minifreak: Ep04 - Envelopes

[@DreamscapesMusicCinema]

Good afternoon. So great to see another awesome video. Very informative and helpful. I hope everything is going well in Your world 🌎. Mark Bensette Aux Bois 🇨🇦.

[@ChalkWalkMusic]

Thanks for your comment, and for watching. I'm glad you found the video interesting. I actually planned to make this series about a year ago (when it was probably a little more pertinent) but time proved too short: such is life when you have a toddler and an infant in the house :).

[@hansilamusic]

Super helpful! Was concerned there was only a static envelope for amplitude but it seems like the cycling envelope can be pointed to the filter for that *woump* sound. Think I’m going to pull the trigger on it.

[@ChalkWalkMusic]

Thanks for your comment and for watching. I think the mod matrix, combined with the single shot LFO mode and loopable envelope give you a surprising amount of flexibility. Hopefully you have fun with it; I think it's a great sounding, interesting and fun synth.

[@Mahenounet]

Hi ! Thank you for this new episode ! :) So the cycling envelope can be considered as an additional LFO with different phases / slopes ? Cheers :)

[@ChalkWalkMusic]

Thanks for your comment, and for watching. Indeed, the cycling envelope can be an ADSR (with decay and release matched) envelope or an AHR style LFO (though unipolar, vs bipolar for LFOs) with or without retriggering. The LFOs can actually be used as a "one shot" meaning they can function similarly to envelopes; they default to bipolar, but the "LFO shaper" can be used to create a unipolar envelope (logically it's an MSEG). This means that between the LFOs and cycling envelope, you have quite a bit of flexibility for cyclic and non-cyclic modulation sources!