12 parameter envelope

Wondering if anyone has developed, or has ideas for how to make an envelope graphic with 6 time parameters and 6 level parameters. This is for the wavetable envelope in the 3rd Wave synth. Currently I’m using faders for the parameters but would prefer a dynamic envelope graphic. Cheers. John.

EDIT: I’ve I had done a bit more research I would have seen that @oldgearguy had developed a flexible envelope graphic using the XY pad. I will investigate.

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Yes - the Waldorf XT has an 8 stage time/level Wave envelope and a free envelope.

The difference between the two (mainly) is one can be bi-polar (I think - gee, it’s been a long time looking at this stuff).

If you need help extricating it from the XT code, let me know, but I seem to think you’ve very competent. :slight_smile:

EDIT - I see that I also posted a more isolated version as a demo in a thread and you found that as well.

My work here is done.

lol

Tom

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You are a scholar and a gentleman! I have been able to adapt your well documented code to a standalone preset for controlling the 3rd Wave’s wavetable envelopes. Having the touch screen control is a great feature too! There is something very pleasing about watching the envelopes on the 3rd Wave’s screen move around as my finger glides across the E1’s screen. :smiling_face: The hard part will be trying to build this into the 3rd Wave preset itself. Cheers!

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Glad I took the time to make some notes in-line. Sometimes I’m a little too minimal with my examples.

It does seem like full integration into the 3rd Wave sysex is more of a challenge than it should be.

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Well, the negativity is mostly in my head. It probably won’t be as bad as I think. Setting my expectations low lol. The 3rd wave is mostly complicated by reading in and storing all patch names, and by caching the parsed program so that I can compare edits with the original in real time. The wavetable envelope shouldn’t interfere with either of those since it is mostly about the UI.

Thanks to @oldgearguy there is now a touch screen UI for each of the three 6-stage wavetable-envelopes that makes visualizing and editing much easier and more fun. It should largely mimic the dynamic graphic on the 8M display screen except only one envelope is shown at a time. Might need some touch up but is basically all there.

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