vactrol
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## vactrol

vactrol — Envelope follower unit generator.

## Description

Plugin opcode in buchla

Envelope follower unit generator emmulating a Perkin Elmer Vactrole VTL5C3/2.

## Syntax

    ares vactrol asig [iup, idown]

## Initialisation

iup -- The rise time of the filter, which defaults to 20,

idown -- The fall time of the filter, which defaults to 3000,

## Performance

asig -- The signal from which to extract the envelope.

## Examples

Here is an example of the vactrol opcode. It uses the file vactrol.csd.

Example 1148. Example of the vactrol opcode.

See the sections Real-time Audio and Command Line Flags for more information on using command line flags.

    <CsoundSynthesizer>

    <CsInstruments>
            nchnls = 2
            0dbfs = 1

        instr 1
            a1 lfo 0.3, 1, 4
            a2 vactrol a1
            a3 oscili 2, 440
               out     a1*a3,a2*a3
         endin

    </CsInstruments>

    <CsScore>
        i1 0 3
        e
    </CsScore>

    </CsoundSynthesizer>

This opcode can reduce zipper noise produced from complex envelope tracking as it smooths the transitions.

## See also

Sensing and Control: Envelope followers

## Credits

Author: John ffitch
after Julian Parker
New in 6.04

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