The envelope follower block (env) – Waldorf Edition User Manual

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Turn the Tempo dial to the left to set a slow tempo. If you set Tempo to 0, LFO
Speed and Delay Time are untarnished.

Turn the Tempo dial to the right to set a fast tempo.

Changing the tempo with this dial has no immediate effect on the LFO Speed or Delay
Time settings. The Tempo setting works like a Quantize value for these parameters. As
soon as you directly change the LFO Speed or Delay Time settings, you will find that
only even multiples of the Tempo value can be set. Quantized values are 64th triplets
to several bars (LFO Speed), and up to the maximum Delay Time (Delay Time).

The Envelope Follower block (Env)

Decay

0...99.99999

You can use this dial to control the Decay rate of the Envelope Follower.

Turn the Decay dial to the right to increase the duration of the Envelope.

Turn the Decay dial to the left to decrease the duration of the Envelope.

Envelope is an exponential function. Its value display does therefore not show degrees,
milliseconds, etc.
The nature of the input signal can drastically change the behavior of the Envelope
Follower. With certain material you will find the most interesting settings in the lower
range of the Decay rates, with other material you might find them between 99.0 and
99.99999. Experiment to find out which settings are best for your material.

Cutoff Mod

-400%...0%...+400%

This parameter controls the degree to which the Envelope Follower modulates the filter
cutoff.

Turn the dial to the left to get a negative Cutoff Modulation.The higher the Envelope
Follower deflection, the lower the Cutoff Frequency.

Turn the dial to a middle position to decrease Cutoff Modulation. At a setting of 0%
the Envelope Follower stops to modulate the filter Cutoff.

Turn the dial to the right to get a positive Cutoff Modulation.The higher the Envelope
Follower deflection, the higher the Cutoff Frequency.

We have given this parameter its wide value range of -400% to 400% to make sure that
a high Cutoff Modulation can also be achieved when you work with a weak signal le-
vel. When set to 100% and a Cutoff frequency of 0 Hz, the Envelope Follower will mo-
dulate Cutoff to its maximum frequency as soon as the input level reaches 0 dB.

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