M-Audio WizooVerb W5 [53/158] Attack time

Envelope

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Attack Time

Attack Time determines the length of the ﬁrst envelope segment. The start-

ing point of this segment is always identical with the beginning of early re-

ﬂections. Accordingly, you can shift the end of the segment to the right us-

ing the Attack Time knob.

The Attack segment may encompass the entire reverb signal or only parts thereof. It

cannot, however, overlap with the Decay segment.

Decay Time

Decay Time determines the length of the ﬁnal envelope segment. The end

of this segment is always identical with the end of the envelope. Accord-

ingly, you can shift the starting point of the segment to the left using the

Decay Time knob.

The Decay segment may encompass the entire reverb signal or only parts thereof. It

cannot, however, overlap with the Attack segment.

Attack/Decay Slope

The Slope knobs let you contour independently the respective waveforms

of the Attack and the Decay segments. You can create various ascending at-

tack and descending decay envelopes:

❖ Negative values yield an exponential curve.

❖ A value of 0% creates a straight line, that is, a linear ascent/descent.

❖ Positive values produce a logarithmic curve.

You can literally shape the reverb signal using the Slope knobs: For exam-

ple, you can dial in very steep slopes for the attack and decay phases to cre-

ate gated reverb, the length of which you can conveniently adjust using the

Length knob. If you do want reverb to cut off quite so abruptly, you can dial

in a fast fade using Decay Slope.

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