Adjusting ADSR on Presets

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#1

Hi,

I understand the “Time” knob on the Astrolab can correlate based to the preset to some rough ADSR controls. Though it’s different for each patch.
I didn’t think i’d need the additional knobs but really sometimes a patch just needs a bit of tweaking to suit the moment.

Is the only way to ADJUST the ADSR if I buy Collection V and then edit the patches that way? Seems kind of steep price to do a small thing like that.

I haven’t been able to see in Analog LABS Pro how to remap the knobs to something like ADSR but maybe I’m mistaken.

Love to hear your ideas.

#2

That is correct. An Analog Lab preset is made up of one or two presets from the V Collection synths, and the only modifications you can make in Analog Lab are to whatever is assigned to the Macros. It’s more of a preset player than a full-blown synth.

#3

Hi, on most analog synth presets, you can edit the envelope(s) in Analog Lab Pro (which is included with AstroLab) using the 9 “virtual faders”:
In Analog Lab:

  • in Settings / MIDI, select “Generic 9 knobs + 9 faders” as the MIDI Controller
  • enable the “Controls” tab at the bottom of the window to display the knobs and faders.
    (the knobs are the same as AstroLab, for the Macros and Effects)
  • adjust the envelopes using the virtual faders
  • save the edited preset to AstroLab

Note that you can also connect a hardware USB/MIDI knob/fader box to the AstroLab and control the virtual faders via MIDI messages using the following CCs (on MIDI Ch 1):
Fader 1: 73
Fader 2: 75
Fader 3: 79
Fader 4: 72
Fader 5: 80
Fader 6: 81
Fader 7: 82
Fader 8: 83
Fader 9: 85

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