ALESIS QSR 64 - Manual (Page 67)

Editing Programs: Chapter 6
QSR Reference Manual 20
Delay (00 to 99, Hold) Page 5
This is the amount of time that the envelope will wait before doing anything; very
useful if you want to affect one element of a sound sometime after the sound starts.
When the Delay is set to 0, the envelope attacks right away, without any delay. Play
some notes while turning up the delay and see that the time between playing the
note and hearing the effect of the Pitch Envelope gets progressively longer as the
Delay control is turned up.
If the Delay is set above 99, the display will read “Hold”. This indicates that the
Delay stage of the envelope will wait indefinitely until the key is released before
continuing on to the remaining envelope stages (Attack, Decay, etc.). This requires
that the Pitch Envelope’s Trigger parameter (see next page) is set to “Freerun”.
However, when the Delay is set to “Hold”, “Freerun” mode is forced on regardless of
the Trigger parameter’s setting.
Sustain Decay (00 to 99) Page 6
This is the amount of time that the envelope will take during the sustain stage to
bring the level down to 0. If this is set to 99, the envelope will remain at the Sustain
level until the note is released. When set to 0, the envelope’s level will immediately
jump down to 0 upon reaching the sustain stage.
Trigger (Normal, Freerun, Reset, Reset-Freerun) Page 7
The Trigger mode determines how the envelope will function. You may select either
Freerun or Reset, or both (Reset-Freerun) or neither (Normal). When set to Normal,
the envelope will always start at its current level (i.e., if another note had been played
which triggered the envelope’s cycle, playing another note in the middle would not
interrupt the cycle). Also in Normal mode, the envelope will immediately advance to
its release stage upon releasing the note. When set to Freerun, the envelope will
complete its entire cycle, even if the note is released in the middle. When set to Reset,
the envelope starts at the beginning whenever a new note is played. When set to
Reset-Freerun, the envelope will start at the beginning whenever a new note is
played and will complete its entire cycle, even if the note is released in the middle.
If a sound layer’s Keyboard Mode parameter (found in the Pitch Function, Page 10) is
set to “Mono”, the Pitch Envelope will only retrigger when playing legato if the
Trigger Mode is set to either “Reset” or “Reset-Freerun”.
Time Tracking (On or Off) Page 8
This determines whether or not keyboard position will affect the cycle speed of the
envelope. When turned on, playing toward the higher end of the keyboard will result
in a faster envelope cycle; playing toward the lower end of the keyboard will result in
a slower envelope cycle. However, this does not effect the attack time, but only the
decay, sustain decay and release segments. This feature will result in only a subtle
change. The envelope’s timing doubles or halves over a range of two octaves.