5.23 alternate triggering techniques:
(triggering methods instead of the keyboard)
Doug wrote:
Inverting an envelope is simple. The only envelopes that can be inverted are envelopes one and
two. Simply view the envelope, then click on soft button 2 to go to the LEVEL page if necessary.
Soft knob 8 controls whether the wave is a POSWAV (the default, a positive wave, meaning that the
affected sound will open up or go up in pitch, then go down) or a NEGWAV (meaning that an
affected sound will go down and then go up in pitch.)
I'm not 100% certain, but I *think* that one of the key things I did when creating the sound was to
have EG3 triggered AND re-triggered by a positive value of the ribbon controller (trigger/gate mode,
not trigger mode). You still need to press a key (and touch the ribbon while the key is still pressed)
to start the sound, but once that has been done, I was able to turn the sound on and off by touching
(or removing my finger from) the ribbon controller (which would gate EG3), without needing to use
the keyboard anymore.
The interesting thing was that the voice remains in use the whole time (the ribbon controller only
determines whether EG3 is on or not), and the only way to turn it off was to press and release a key
again. Which leads me to believe that this is related to the "hanging notes" problem that several
people have had. (In this case, it's a *feature*, not a bug!) I would agree that there needs to be an
alternative method (no keyboard involvement!) for turning a voice on/off (could "voice on" be a
modulation destination?), but this "trick" seems to work for me ...
Here’ s an alternate technique: use the sustain pedal for a trigger! It also works well. (First
suggested by Pim!)