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Envelopes Overview

Like a lot of other synths, Sine Machine defines envelopes as an ADSR (with a few extra bells and whistles like offset and hold).

Unlike most synths, Sine Machine has an envelope per harmonic, per voice.

Each note you play (in other words, each voice) kicks off up to 500 oscillators. Each of those oscillators has its own completely independent amplitude envelope that can be adjusted in detail, as you play.

It’s like 3D chess, but for audio!

An illustration of many ADSR envelopes over time. The orange slice is one ADSR. All slices together determine the evolving timbre of a note.

Since Sine Machine exposes access to all frequency components of a note over time, this envelopes section is how you can quickly adjust the timbre of the note.

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