I’m trying to create some evolving atmospheric pads with slow attacks, but I can’t seem understand the A4’s legato.
My understanding is that with legato mode off, the amp envelope should re-trigger with every new note played, regardless of whether a previous note was still held. This is not happening with legato turned off on the A4. When I play one note, and then a second note, the envelope does not seem to re-trigger.
I’ve have a good look around and played with a variety of settings but I can’t seem to hear any difference with having the legato on or off.
Have you tried the envelopes with dots next to them on the amp page? They should re-trigger the attack phase, it can result in a bit of a click unless you edit around it though.
I’ve never used legato mode as I only ever sequence notes but I can’t see there being any difference, as always, the manual is quite brief in its description.
I swear there was another control for envelope behaviour but can’t find it now, surely I didn’t dream it…
EDIT- Just found it, I knew it was real, in the note menu, it’s two switches for the two assignable envelopes and controls whether or not they are re-triggered. These confused me for a while until I realized they only affect the envelopes from the decay phase.
… the envelope is re-triggered from whichever point it is at, whether attack,decay,sustain or release ! - it’s sometimes not noticeable depending on the adsr values when the envelope type does not start from zero (the dotted ones) - e.g trigless retriggering a very long attack envelope with a non-dotted env will probably make no difference, the re-triggering without reset to zero becomes interesting when the envelope being trigless trigged is in any of the stages after attack, it’ll become like a multi-stage envelope
No, I was still confused about their function, it seems in their default position (switched right) it’s business as normal and when switched left the envelope is disabled for that P-locked step.