ARP2600 - Fundamentals of Music Technology - Cyborgstudio.com

062 - SECTION SEVEN: ADSR AND AR GENERATORSREVIEW QUESTIONS FOR SECTION SEVEN:1. Compare and contrast envelope generators and oscillators.2. Who designed the ADSR generator, and who built the first one?3. Name the three control signals the keyboard produces and tell when it produces each one. Tell whateffect each one has on an EG.4. Name the four stages of an ADSR generator, and tell if each is a time or level setting.5. Be able to pick the correct settings of an ADSR generator by looking at a drawing of an envelope.6. State what is different physically and in operation between the ADSR and AR generators.7. Tell what happens when the gate signal disappears at any given point in the envelope.8. Tell what happens to the decay stage when the sustain level is set to full open.9. Locate the manual start button and tell what it does both in general and in terms of electronic signals.10. Name all of the places to which the ADSR and AR generators are normalled.11. Review the settings for percussion, bass, and common other patches on the 2600.12. Tell how the EG’s could be caused to fire without a trigger pulse or gate signal from the keyboardand without using the manual start button.TERMS AND NAMES TO KNOW:ADSRARAttackBob MoogDecayEGEnvelopeEnvelope GeneratorGate SignalManual Start ButtonReleaseStageSustainTrigger PulseWendy CarlosVladamir Ussachevsky