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The 'classic' short attack-release noisette

Archive · 2004 6 old posts

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lalo ·

Hi guys! why classic? cause i found it in an infinite series of virtual synths! even those commercial VSTi... try to do a simple sine and apply an envelope with a fair short release.... you will hear a little high pitched noise at the very end of the sound... is not a 'click' cause the env release is a few milliseconds long so the sound doesn't click... i'm not a dsp expert but i guess that's some harmonic distortion in multipling the sine signal and env signal..

to me is an important 'quality' related issue..let's make SM be the first immune 😉

love lalo

jorge ·

hi lalo

I wasnt aware of the noisette you mention. If the envelope is done before a lowpass filter, maybe the release is too fast for the filter to cope with and it just responds with a high frequency. Do you notice the problem when there is no filtering after the envelope? Do you need to have such a fast release that you'd notice that problem? The same way that its up to the user to avoid clicks by not using too short a release cant it be up to the user to avoid the noisette you mention?

lalo ·

hi jorge! no..no filter at all... yes a clickless envelope is up to the user...but an attack and releas of 3 ms should be clickless ..i did a lot of tests with audio editor's fade in and fade out...when you apply a 3~4 milliseconds of A and R you have a clickless but with a great attack and fast release wave... btw the sound i hear is not a click...it's a kind of hi-pitched noise..its come out when the A and R are long enough to not click...where can i send ya an mp3 or a short wav (for maximum quality?)...oops but can SM render its output as wav? thanx lalo

lalo ·

?? lalo 🙂

jorge ·

one way you can create a wave file is by exporting your synthmaker synth to a VSTi and using it in a host. You can email it to me: [email removed]

lalo ·

what a fool i am 😉 i'll do today 😉 thanx.. what you're workin' on guys?

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