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5
Program Parameters

Env [edit]: Reset

Page:
Soft Button:
Range:
D efault: reset
This parameter determines where your envelope starts when you play a
note. When set to reset, the envelope always starts from the beginning
of the attack stage, no matter what. But when set to legato, if you play a
note while holding down another note, the envelope starts from the same
position that the held note's envelope. For a program in mono voice
mode, this means that playing "legato" (playing a new note before
releasing the previous note) makes the voice transpose to each note's
pitch over a continuous envelope, while playing "staccato" (releasing each
note before playing the next one) makes each note attack individually.
This behavior allows you a great deal of expressive control as you play.
For a program in poly voice mode, all notes will share the same
envelope, and this envelope will be reset only if you play a note with no
other notes held down. This feature is especially useful with the filter
envelope. Not only will it ensure that filter sweeps happen in unison
across all of the notes you play, but you can prevent the filter from
sweeping at all as long as you have a note held down, so you can keep
this effect under your hat until you're ready to bring it out.

Env [edit]: Freerun

Page:
Soft Button:
Range:
D efault: release
This parameter determine the sustaining behavior of the envelope. If set
to release, then the envelope transitions from the attack stage to the
decay stage to the sustain stage, as long as you are holding the key down.
As soon as you take your finger off the key, the envelope will move into
"Release" mode
Note On
A
D S
the release stage. If this parameter is set to freerun, then there is no
sustain stage—the envelope transitions from attack to decay to release.
Furthermore, it doesn't matter how long you hold down the key; the
envelope always follows this fixed-length pattern. If you are using the
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reset, legato
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release, freerun
Note Off
R
"Freerun" mode
Note On
A
D R
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