Waldorf Wave 3.v - Manual (Page 27)

The Controls
27 PPG Wave 3.V User´s Manual
The PPG Wave 3.V has two unipolar ADSR envelopes
and one AD envelope with positive or negative deflection,
which can also be edited graphically. Find additional
information in the section “The Graphical Editor (Graph)”.
The original PPG Wave 2.2 and 2.3 saved only a few rates
that have displayed. Attack rates were saved with only 16
steps, e.g. values as 0, 4, 8, 12 and so on. Decay and
Release rates were saved with 32 steps (0, 2, 4, 6 etc.). If
TRUE PPG is activated, the PPG Wave 3.V plays also
these reduced rates. Deactivate TRUE PPG if you want to
have all values of an envelope rate for a smooth sound
control.
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In the Appendix of this manual you will find a more
detailed explanation of envelopes.
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The original PPG had an especially interesting
feature, which can of course always be found in the
Plug-In. If the Attack Rate of an Envelope was set to a
value higher than 47, then the signal would execute
the Attack-phase completely, no matter if the note
was still played or not. The Envelope would always
switch into the Release-phase. This function is
especially useful for long filter-sweeps. For this to
work, Envelope 2, which controls the volume, must
of course also be set correspondingly.
ADSR ENVELOPE 1
This Envelope is used to control the filter frequency and
the waveforms. The four dials control the exact Envelope
form and time-wise modulation development. The impact
of the Envelope on the filter frequency can be adjusted
with the ENV1-VCF parameter, the intensity of waveform
modulation is changed with the ENV1-WAVES parameter.
Although only common controllers are available for this
envelope, the calculation is done twice. The waveform
envelope is a little bit faster than the filter envelope and
has to wait after each envelope phase until the filter
envelope matches the phase. If so, the next phase starts
automatically.