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Vary your Touch for Control Over Envelope Triggering

Most synths these days offer selectable options for how their envelopes are triggered; either with every new note played (called multi-triggering), or only when your notes are played at least slightly separated. If they are played well-connected, the envelope won’t re-trigger, and will instead travel to the sustain level and stay there for the remainder of the phrase (usually called legato).

Understanding how this behaves, and how to both program and play for control

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