The ultimate introduction to eurorack envelopes - (part 1)

[@NEVERSLEEPmovies]

First Monotrail Video with a Cliffhanger 😊! Your sound design is again so deep and awesome - always a benchmark!

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Haha, yeah guess that's true! Also really enjoyed working with this compact system, that wavetable oscillator is still one of my all time favorites!

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Hello everyone! Happy to finally make this very beginner friendly series on envelopes! Let me know if there are questions/suggestions :) Generic affiliate links: Perfect Circuit - US - bit.ly/3xX7ASi Sound of You - EU bit.ly/3DzdFYi Clockface - AS - bit.ly/3YkDJ1B

[@Zenkman]

Very good as always ! The best Eurorack explain channel ! 🙌

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Wow, thanks!

[@AmbientAssemblage]

great discussion. good ideas for patching at the end. i really want to pick up a xaoc zadar envelope generator. i really think it would help add some more complexity to my drones and generative music.

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Glad it was helpful! Did a video on Zadar recently if you are interested, lot's of good options :)

[@AmbientAssemblage]

@@MonotrailTechTalk yeah i’ve seen that one, love all your videos. it would be cool if there was a touch screen sculptable eg module

[@DaGhost141]

As always, great video! Especially the in depth ones concerning a specific function or module.

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Hey, glad you like my work! :)

[@daojea]

Great Great Explantation

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Glad you liked it! Cheers :)

[@Bruceanddenise]

As always, top notch instruction. The waveform explanations remind me, I need to get on my oscilloscope project!

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Thank you! And yes, that sounds like you should :)

[@walrtbstudios5430]

It took me a long time to grasp the concept of ‘sustain’ in the standard ADSR envelope. It was only when someone stressed that the S stage is concerned with the y-axis of the envelope, while ADR are plotted on the x-axis that I finally understood. Practically, that has helped me a lot- I graduated beyond the basic Doepfer A-140-1 ADSR (though I would never sell it!) to the Make Noise Contour (strictly speaking an ASD envelope with a lot of outputs for various stages), and I’m just starting to get to grips with the Xaoc Zadar- surely a quad envelope generator to rule them all! As always, great information-packed video- thanks!

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Hi there! Indeed it's a common struggle when the whole concept is new. Sounds like you ended up with a great selection, enjoy! :)

[@MaxPatissier]

waiting for part 2 !!! thank you.

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Nice! I will do a little in between video to keep the algorithm happy, but will upload the second part later this month! Cheers :)

[@kentinjivek]

The “duty” knob on the Sq1 is really useful to generate different gates with different length I would say, with a slew limiter, it generates interesting basic envelopes…in that case I use the slew limiter by befaco. Thank you for this wonderful video again. 😊

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Hey, glad you liked it! And indeed that is a fun trick! Really interesting at slow speeds :)

[@LRonHubbard-um1tp]

gotta say i learn a lot here

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Glad to hear it!

[@trumpetstylistic6772]

Great video! Thank you for all the very informative explanations and examples!

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Glad you enjoyed it! All the best :)

[@hdsubstance1]

Great explanation as always

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Thank you! :)

[@kipropmusic]

Thanks for all of these tons of help!

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching :)

[@YehudaSamson]

Thanks for this one. Triggers and gates confused me a little bit but your explanation and visual examples are really great!

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Glad it was helpful! Wanted to make these videos for some time, and hope it will help people out for some time to come! All the best :)

[@radpix]

nice having seen you at 19" 1st Wensday of Aug23 on my way way back I realized I usually have too little envelopes in my case or set, so that refresher just was right at this time 👍🏻

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Ha, yes, was nice indeed! All the best :)

[@void101com]

Great video on envelopes, many thanks! 😃

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Glad you liked it! Part two will come later this month :)

[@quantum_ocean]

Gates have an “on” (high) and “off” (low) state. They remain high for a duration that you need to sustain an event and go low when the event ends. For example, a gate signal can keep an envelope open as long as a key is held down. Triggers are short, momentary pulses used to start an event. They provide a brief impulse to initiate actions like starting an envelope, playing a sample, or advancing a sequencer step. They do not have a sustained “on” state; instead, they provide a quick “start” signal and then return to low immediately.

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

There's a couple of minutes in the video where I explain gates and triggers in depth! :)

[@nukiolbartes6279]

Worth to mention theres a module capable doing negative sustain level.

[@xavierxeon]

For advanced envelope generation, I can recommend the mighty Mutable Instrument Stages (or a a clone of the module), especially when several are chained together.

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Nice module indeed! And for sure chaining is a great and powerful trick. Will dive into that, as well as mixing and inverting envelopes in the next video! Cheers :)

[@xavierxeon]

@@MonotrailTechTalk I mean chaining several Stages modules. That way you can build for example a 12 stage envelope triggered by one gate input. Chaining envelopes is of course also nice!

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Ah I see, that's a different idea indeed! Both interesting :)

[@daemonicflame]

I am not the hugest fan of stages for envelopes, they quite slow.

[@linewizard]

I will second this recommendation. The alternate firmware by Qiemem adds even more functionality, such as a random voltage mode, faster/slower segments than default, bipolar segments, and 6x DAHDSR envelopes.

[@Delayeed9]

which module achieves that screaming sound through out the video? its beautiful

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Ha, I'm pretty sure the sound you mean is caused by the filters! I did a video on the HP & LP filters, but to be honest I mostly focused on explaining the concepts there, over time I learnt to control them better, and kinda fell in love. The balance between input level, resonance, and distortion switches is crucial. But they have a magical 'turn-everything-in-a-raw-rumble' sort of power :)

[@russ254]

@@MonotrailTechTalk you got some great sounds of of a very small case!

[@Waldemar_la_Tendresse]

Way too simple for me, but in any case, as always, very well explained.

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Yeah, this is a bit of a test. I really like to do an entire intro to modular for starters. But KZbin isn't the place for it. this platform is better for fun ideas and patches. But am happy to test this, didn't do an envelope basics yet! Thanks for appreciating, even though something isn't made for you exactly, that's not something everybody on the web can do ;)

[@LRonHubbard-um1tp]

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