ritz wrote:Envelope generation is my anti-drug.
Or my drug. Or something.
A few of the moogerfoogers can generate an envelope out. They are obviously not small. And the envelope itself is a little lacking? Or flat maybe?
I'm much happier using the envelope generated by a Dreadbox Epsilon. Has controls for attack, release, sensitivity and depth. Not small, but not huge like a moogerfooger. Haven't tried the Protostar, kinda skeptical about it having the attack knob controlling attack and release, like uhhhm what?
I would like to eventually switch up to a smaller dedicated envelope generation pedal to replace the Epsilon and free up a little board space. There was talk here where Adam at Copilot had done a dedicated envelope pedal for Resincum, but idk if that is envelope follower or stomp-activated envelope generator.
I have considered going mini-modular just for envelope and CV madness, but you know... modular, rabbit-hole, next thing I know I'm selling all my pedals...
The attack and the threshold control the release. It's definitely not ideal, but I think it makes sense from the stand point of it being specifically a guitar/bass pedal. What I mean by that is that you're going to be more concerned about the attack first because the release ends up being dependent on how you let your strings ring out or if you mute them. If you want something more rhythmic, I would get either the Dwarfcraft ARF or Happiness. I know there's no envelope following there, but envelope following on a guitar is going to be hard to replicate because you'd have to hit the string the exact same way every time and the electronics are very sensitive to that.