We need to talk about the Modwave's envelopes... (Curves, Triggers, Sequencing and Complex Shapes)
Channel: Oscillator Sink
Date: 2022-02-19

When the Modwave was released people, perhaps understandably, focused primarily on the "Wave" part of the name - wavetables are great and I'm pleased to have seen them make such a comeback in hardware synths lately. 

That said, for me it's the "Mod" part of the name that is most exciting because the various modulation sources, how they can interact with each other and the incredibly generous mod matrix invite you to be extremely creative with sound design on the Modwave. There are not many synths where I feel like I need a whole video to just talk about the envelopes - but with the Modwave I do!

In this video I'll talk about using the "Curves" to fine tune the envelope response and the move onto how we can use triggers with the envelopes to create sequences, generative patches and complex envelopes that move far beyond a simple 4-stage ADSR

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Here's the other envelope video I mention: https://youtu.be/wJr3DheLXXM

Transparency notice: the Modwave was kindly provided to me by Korg in order to make some videos on it. Korg are not paying me for these videos, nor do they have any say in the content.

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:32 - 4 Envelopes is a lot
02:16 - Negative Sustain
05:02 - Curves
15:26 -  Envelope Trigger Intro
18:14 - Making the sequencer act "Normal"
25:25 - Generative envelope triggers
30:05 - Complex multi-stage envelopes
35:52 - Outro

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