From analogue-owner@hyperreal.com
Subject: Alpha Juno/MKS-50 Constant Length Note Trick
To: analogue@hyperreal.com
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 00:45:43 -0400
From: "David Evans" 
Sorry if everyone knows this or it's in the manual (been years sinceI opened
my manual) but I re-discovered how to make constant-length
notes tonight.  Let's say you want a sound that's a specific length,
no matter how long youhold down the key; this can make some
hand-done arpeggios sound more uniform,if that's what you're
into (and my procrsastination required just that.)
Ie.you want an envelope like this:

	+----------------+
	|		 |
	|		 |
	|		 |
	|		 |
	|		 |
--------+		 +--------- ...................
	^
	Key on				Key off somewhere over here

The logical thing to do would be to set L1 to 127 and T1 to zero,
giving you the sharp rise, L2 to 127, to give you a level to stay
at, and L3 to 0 and T3to 0, giving you an instant decay.  They you
would vary the width of the envelope using T2.  However, if L1 and L2
are sufficiently close, T2 will haveno effect and the note will
always be quite short.  I'm not sure what this threshold is, but
it you lower L2 a little you can make it happy with little change
to the sound.  Hope that was clear and perhaps even useful.  It's
bed time.  Have to get upearly tomorow for Comdex....
-- David Evans