Thanks, TweakHead! I'm a bit less confused now. The Virus B manual is also helping a bit.
Sorry about the hijack, nutrinoland. I've pasted your last post below. I don't have the snow, but I'll try to answer some of it anyway. Someone with a better understanding of this should jump in here, and also correct me if what I tell you is wrong.
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Originally Posted by nutrinoland
Hey again. I was trying to use the analog inputs on the snow, so decided to try the envelope follower, so I did a google search for it, and the result that popped up was this page ..a question I myself had asked a little while ago.
Anyway..I re-read it, and this time understood a little better, since recently I learned about envelope followers in FL studio, using something called a Peak Controller. The same way a bassline is sidechained, the peak controller can be linked to any destination or parameter in the DAW. I had been sidechaining bass for a while before, but only realized the potential of the peak controller/ env follower, recently after reading about it online. Great little technique. I enjoyed using it on a distortion plugin, so as the bass got louder it distorted more.
Although I have grasped the concept of env followers, quite well, I am still having a hard time implementing it on the Virus.
I am not sure how to set it up and use it. For example,on the input mode patch, FX page - activate input- static input, and then activate the Env follower from input. WHat is the env follower affecting in this case ? is it acting on the input signal itself or can I play the synth oscillators and stuff at the same time as input ? will the env follower affect the oscillators internally ? can it modulate anythig apart from volume and filter cutoff ?also does each of the 4 parts on My snow have an individual env follower or can one stereo analog input affect the env follower on all 4 parts.
I wasn't really able to figure it out. something did happen, but I couldn't figure out what exactly was happening.
Thanks
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It's still unclear to me whether the envelope follower is able to pass the signal untouched, but it seems to me that the way to make it change the signal as little as possible is to set attack, decay and release to zero, and the sustain knob to max, but I'm not really sure. It's all in the Virus B manual however, which is good for explaining a few things, as the TI manual is such a sad excuse of a cheap joke. Look up Envelope follower in the tricks & tips section. I'm unable to copy text from the PDF file I found. Just remember there are some differences between the B and the TI.
Anyways, the manual actually seems to suggest that you can have the clean input signal modulate whatever you want, without the envelope follower changing that signal at all. I guess you still just use the filter envelope as source in the mod matrix, but I'm not sure. I'll try experimenting with this later.
Oh, and I don't think the input signal will blend with the synth sound unless you use it to modulate something or activate it to be treated as audio.
Hope that was of some help