Basics of Cubase VST Plugins – Sound Envelopes

Lets assume that you started out at full blast and you stay there, then you let go of the key and your patch disappears. This implies there are no envelopes. Sound articulation needed them for they are the important factor.. Its as a result of the envelopes that you could be creative and express dynamic sounds through your synthesiser. You’ll study about them briefly, although theyre rather tough to understand. Think of the regular envelope being as 4 important entities.

Entity 1 : If you want good string sounds then do the following. Set it moderately high where the sound would gradually decline. Say you set to nothing then the sound would straightaway be at full tilt. So you want to attack meaning the sound is rising up to its maximum level.

Entity two : When the attack brings the sound up and remains at the level how long it stays there is recognise as the decay. Say you set it at max. level then it will stay there permanently which means the sustain stage is of no value.

Entity three : Once the decay stage has finished it will be at the sustain level where it remains. In a few cases depending on your synthesizer you would have a dedicated sustain time setting, which implies it’ll decay the sustain stage after an adjusted time period.

Entity 4 : The sustain level takes a period of time to fall to silence. This is the release, and its virtually like reverb at the sound ending. Say you want it to be instant then set the release level to zero.

Get a picture in your head of the envelopes then with practising the programing of the envelopes you will master it. Think of each entity on graph paper where youre dedicating higher to lower points as it goes through the several entities and the sound changes. Visualise the sound maximizing through the attack, falling through the decay, remaining in the determined level of the sustain, then at long last it vanishes via the release when you let go.

To articulate the filter it wants a filter envelope. You should be able to see a dedicated knob for the filter frequency. Youre going to programme the filter envelope simply as you will any normal envelope after you turn down the average cut-off filter, and turn the filter envelope cut-off higher.

It’ll take abit getting used to. To hear some thing dazzling turn the sustain on the filter envelope off, forget about the release and attack. And then make the decay short and turn up the release. What you’re doing here’s utilising the envelope to cut off the frequency, hence you are not changing the volume. If you increase the attack on the filter envelope, you would create brass sounds.