On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 08:22:16AM +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > Linear attack sounds OK. Given the exponential way we perceive volume, > this *is* the desired function.
That's the rationale for having exponential volume controls. In the case of a release profile, it's rather because many real sounds produced by resonating physical things (so-called intruments :-) die out exponentially. But that is only the simplest case. Once you couple e.g. a string to a soundboard, what you get is usually a sum of exponentials with different time constants. AMS has a module that emulates this. A good way to produce natural sounding envelopes is not the 'construct' the envelope, but to see it as the output of a filter operating on a trigger or gate signal. -- FA Follie! Follie! Delirio vano e' questo!
