Alesis Micron Owners Manual.pdf - Fdiskc
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Alesis Micron Owners Manual.pdf - Fdiskc
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The Envelopes<br />
If you hit a note on a piano, you’ll hear a burst of sound energy as<br />
the hammer strikes the string, followed by lower level of loudness<br />
as you hold down the note and let the string ring out, which fades<br />
quickly as soon as you release the note and the damper is applied.<br />
Synthesizer designers model this behavior using ADSR envelopes.<br />
ADSR stands for “attack, decay, sustain, release”, and represents<br />
the different stages that the sound goes through over the life of the<br />
note. Since the most important application of the envelope is to<br />
control the loudness of the sound, the <strong>Micron</strong> provides one<br />
envelope that is specifically designed for this purpose. This is the<br />
amp envelope. However, envelopes are useful in all sorts of mod<br />
routes, which is why you can hook up any of the <strong>Micron</strong>’s<br />
envelopes to any modulatable program parameter.<br />
Each of the <strong>Micron</strong>’s voices contains three envelopes. “Env1” is<br />
the amp envelope. “Env2” is the filter envelope. “Env3” is the<br />
pitch/modulation envelope.<br />
Playing Programs<br />
Press the [programs] button to enter programs mode. Release the<br />
[programs] button and spin the control knob to cycle through<br />
the programs first by category and then–after you have reached<br />
the last program within the last category–again in alphabetical<br />
order.<br />
You can also quickly switch to any category by holding down<br />
[programs] and then pressing the white key on the <strong>Micron</strong>’s<br />
keyboard labeled with that category.<br />
Note that the “recent” category is generated automatically. The<br />
“faves” category is controlled by you, as detailed in the next<br />
discussion.<br />
6 Programs<br />
Envelope assignments<br />
Envelopes can affect different<br />
parameters depending on the<br />
modulation routes you assign.<br />
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