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Envelope
English
Attack Time
Attack Time
determines the length of the first envelope segment. The start-
ing point of this segment is always identical with the beginning of early re-
flections. Accordingly, you can shift the end of the segment to the right us-
ing the
Attack Time
knob.
The
Attack
segment may encompass the entire reverb signal or only parts thereof. It
cannot, however, overlap with the
Decay
segment.
Decay Time
Decay Time
determines the length of the final envelope segment. The end
of this segment is always identical with the end of the envelope. Accord-
ingly, you can shift the starting point of the segment to the left using the
Decay Time
knob.
The
Decay
segment may encompass the entire reverb signal or only parts thereof. It
cannot, however, overlap with the
Attack
segment.
Attack/Decay Slope
The
Slope
knobs let you contour independently the respective waveforms
of the
Attack
and the
Decay
segments. You can create various ascending at-
tack and descending decay envelopes:
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Negative values yield an exponential curve.
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A value of 0% creates a straight line, that is, a linear ascent/descent.
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Positive values produce a logarithmic curve.
You can literally shape the reverb signal using the
Slope
knobs: For exam-
ple, you can dial in very steep slopes for the attack and decay phases to cre-
ate gated reverb, the length of which you can conveniently adjust using the
Length
knob. If you do want reverb to cut off quite so abruptly, you can dial
in a fast fade using
Decay Slope
.
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