EDM – Electronic Dance Music Production Envelopes and ADSR
EDM – Electronic Dance Music Production Envelopes and ADSR:
This is the third one hour EMP – Electronic (Dance) Music Production Sound Design lesson in a scheme of work I wrote a long time ago on a teaching course with GSS in mind. This is about envelopes and the ADSR parameters
The learners will:
Define how envelopes work and the individual elements of the ADSR parameter. They will be able to practise different ways to apply envelopes and what they can apply envelopes to.
Explanation on envelopes and the individual elements to the ADSR (attack, decay, sustain and release) parameter. Uses for envelopes on both synthesised oscillators and audio samples.
Activities:
Group listen to some famous records with heavy use of envelopes used point out when they’re used then learners activity would be to identify them themselves.
Demonstration by me on ADSR in Absynth where learners can hear and see in real time the effects of this parameter.
Learners activity now is to experiment with envelopes using ADSR on their mix of oscillators and individual waveforms using Absynth on their personal DAW
