Alesis A6 Manual Do Utilizador

Chapter 6: Modulation and Envelopes

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The A6 has three 7-stage loop-able envelope generators per voice. The parameters of
the envelopes are described on the following pages. Pressing a button or turning a
knob on any of the three envelope areas displays that parameter. You can also press
the 

 button on the desired envelope and then use any of the display’s soft knobs

and buttons to work with a specific parameter as well as its dedicated panel controls.

TIME

DELAY

ATTACK

D1TIME

D2TIME

R1TIME

R2TIME

SHAPE

LEVEL

OFFSET

LEVEL

D2LEVL

SUSTAIN

R2LEVL

POLAR

1

TRIG and

SOURCE

LEVEL

POLAR

ENABLE

MODE

RETRIG

2

SOURCE

LEVEL

POLAR

STAGE

ENABLE

MODE

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DYN

RESET

SUSPDL

KEYTRK

KTBASE

LVLTRK

VELMOD

RELMOD

LOOP

START

END

COUNT

TYPE

SMOOTH

SSHAPE

BEAT

MOD1

SOURCE

LEVEL

OFFSET

ENABLE

DEST

MOD2

SOURCE

LEVEL

OFFSET

ENABLE

DEST

MOD3

SOURCE

LEVEL

OFFSET

ENABLE

DEST

1

The 

POLAR

 parameter does not appear for 

ENV3

.

2

The 

TRIG

 and 

RETRIG

 parameters (except 

MODE

) are only effective if 

MODE

 is set to 

MOD

 

TRIG

or 

MOD

 

TRIG/GATE

.

Normally, each of the A6’s three envelope generators has a start level of 0, an end
level of 0 and four target levels in between. Each target level is achieved by a time

parameter as depicted in the illustration below.

Note the stages in the envelope’s cycle that are marked 

, 

,

and 

. Normally, these actions “cue” the envelope: Key Pressed tells the

envelope that a “Note On” has occurred: a key on the A6’s keyboard has been
played, a note has been played from the A6’s Sequencer or Arpeggiator, or a MIDI

Note has been received. This message starts the Delay, Attack, Decay1 and Decay2
stages will complete in succession as long as a Key is Held Down. Since in this