I’m wondering if the attack of sounds can be generally modulated after the fact to an arbitrary audio file and similarly for a piano-pedal sustain type effect.

Can they be gradually and arbitrarily modulated?

  • @[email protected]English
    5•2 months ago

    What DAW are you using?

    For staccato, DAW agnostic method is to mess with the envelope ADSR. Make the Attack short, Decay high, Sustain short and Release short.
    Another option is to manually edit the sample, cutting it to the length you want it, or just a bit longer and then lowering the Velocity of the sample quickly at the end. This is done slightly differently in every DAW.
    Another nother option is to use a gate.

    Sustain is a little bit trickier. You can again mess with the ADSR until you get the kind of sustained note you’d like. If that’s not quite working, sometimes I find that using delay and reverb together can give a close approximate to a sustain pedal on a piano.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•2 months ago

    Yes, but only to some degree and very dependent on the source sound. A volume envelope can be applied to any sound. Some DAWs have ways of adjusting the transients by time stretching. Sustain can be tricky to do.

    Is there anything specific you want to do?