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Editing Programs: Part 8

Sustain Pedal (On or Off) Page 9

This determines whether or not the Sustain Pedal will have an effect on the envelope. When turned on, holding down the Sustain Pedal while playing short notes is virtually the equivalent to holding down those notes on the keyboard with some subtle but important differences. If the Delay and Attack are set to 0 and either the Decay is 0 or the Sustain is 99, the envelope will immediately jump to the sustain decay stage (if not already there) when the note is released and the sustain pedal is held down. If a long attack is set, and the envelope has not reached the end of the attack segment when the note is released, the envelope will jump immediately to the Sustain Decay segment. If a long delay is set, and the envelope has not reached the attack segment before the note is released, the envelope will remain at 0. However, if Freerun is turned on, the envelope will continue through the delay, attack, decay and sustain segments and remain at the sustain decay segment. This is exactly the same as holding down the note on the keyboard. When the Sustain Pedal parameter is turned off, the Sustain Pedal will have no effect on the envelope.

Level (00 to 99) Page 10

This is the overall output level of the envelope. If this is set to 00, the Pitch Envelope will have no output and will have no effect, while at 99 it will have a maximum effect on whatever it is being routed to.

TIP: When selecting Pitch Envelope Level as a modulation destination, set the Pitch Envelope level to 00 if the Modulation Level is above 0 (or, set the Pitch Envelope level to 99 if the Modulation Amount is below 0).

Velocity Modulation (00 to 99) Page 11

This parameter is called VEL>PLevel in the display. It determines how keyboard dynamics will affect the envelope level. When set to 99, note velocity controls the envelope’s output; notes played hard will deliver a higher envelope output than notes played soft. When set to 0, note velocity will have no effect on the envelope’s output level.

Note: If the Penv Level is at 99, a positive value of any sort for VEL>PLevel will have no effect. Likewise, if VEL>PLevel is at 99 and Penv Level is at 00, only low velocity notes will allow a difference to be heard when you change the Penv Level value. This is because the Pitch Envelope cannot reach an output level higher than 99. You must add the Penv Level and VEL>PLevel values together to know if you are trying to exceed that limit. So, if you have a Penv Level value of 40, you have enough headroom in the Pitch Envelope to set VEL>PLevel to 59. But if the Penv Level is set to 70 and VEL>PLevel is at 45, you're trying to get the Pitch Envelope to give an output of 115 (which it can't do). In this scenario, you should scale back one or the other (or both) until their combined values do not exceed 99.

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