User Manual

36 Envelopes Dave Smith Instruments
Sustain: 0...127— Sets the sustain time of the selected envelope. In AD Mode,
SuStain has no effect.
Release: 0...127— Sets the release time of the selected envelope. In AD Mode,
ReleaSe has no effect.
Amount: -127...127— Sets the amount of modulation from the selected enve-
lope to its destination. Use Amount (and not Velocity Amount) if you don’t want
the Sound to use the velocity sensitivity of Tempest’s drum pads. The modulation
amount can be positive or negative, allowing for inverted envelope control. The
Amp envelope is an exception, with a range of only positive values (0-127), since
VCA gain can’t be negative!
Velocity Amount: 0...127— For most Sounds, the velocity with which the
pads (or an external MIDI controller) are struck should be used to modulate the
envelope amount. For example,
veloCity amount (and not amount) routed to the
amP envelope will use the drum pads’ velocity sensitivity to control the volume
of the Sound.
amount and veloCity amount work in combination. If amount is set to 127,
veloCity amount will not have any effect regardless of the setting or the velocity
with which the pad is struck because the modulation amount is already maxed
out.
When using
veloCity amount to control the envelope amount of velocity-
sensitive sounds,
amount can be used to set the minimum peak level of the
envelope when note velocity is 1 or close to it. For example, let’s say you wish to
create a drum sound in which the softest-played notes produce a volume ¼ that
of the loudest notes, but when using veloCity amount alone, the softly-played
notes are nearly silent. In this case, you would set the
amP envelope’s veloC-
ity amount to 127 and its amount to around 32. For this reason, when creating
touch-sensitive sounds, you might think of the amount parameter as “Minimum
Envelope Amount.”
Velocity is ignored when 16 levels in Pad Function or Fixed level in Pad
Options is on. See “16 Levels” on page 10 and “Pad Options” on page 11 for
more information.
Destination: Off, mod destination 1, mod destination 2, …— Envelopes
PitCh, auX1, and auX2 are assignable to any of Tempest’s modulation destina-
tions. For a complete list, see “Modulation Destinations” on page 79.