Trying to build an per harmonic partial ADSR envelope...

if you look at the most recent files i posted to this thread it is setup to have different decay times for different partials, think it wouldn't be too difficult to adapt for what you're describing here

i can not for the life of me fathom how that picture relates to values for partials over time lol

but separate envelopes per partial is totally possible

if you're doing it per partial, that may mean you need that many separate envelopes. that's a lot of dang envelopes. if that's what you're trying to do, maybe you could clock the envelopes at event rate to save on cycles?

ah ok, i think i can see it now

so what's the impediment to building it? seems pretty straightforward. you just need a whole boatload of envelopes, either unrolled monophonically or spread across a bunch of audio voices

edit: listen to chet not me he's totally got the right idea lol

maThe ADSR modules are event driven but do use some cpu. However you can underclock them which basically slows down fast rise and fall times which aren't always necessary. It's possible your best bet is to share envelope generators with your harmonics. Envelope generators produce levels but those levels can also run thru a square root or other math formula that can effectively alter the envelope. So basically you can use a single ADSR module and run the output to many of your individual harmonics. So as an example you might use 16 ADSR modules and each one can control 32 partials. By using mathematics after the envelope generator you can effectively change each of the 512 partials. So instead of using 512 ADSR modules you only use 16 and each one is followed by a formula. You can end up with 512 math routines but if they don't use much cpu it might work out. I would suggest using a single ADSR followed by the squaring module and listen to what it does. After that try to use the exponent module that raises a ADSR value to something different than a squaring circuit. There's an equivalent core module too. The mathematics may make it easy to sound design your partials. I would also use a master to adjust each individual ADSR at one time. This way you can get the basic envelope established pretty easily. Each envelope generator can still be adjusted independently but the ADSR of each one will still move with with master. I did this in FM12 which is currently in the UL if you want to see how a master can affect all 6 envelope generators. The exponent or raise to the power module shown can work magic in controlling the harmonics or partials. Combined with 16 envelope generators you might have something there that is easy to program and makes musical sense. Most natural instruments can be easily synthesized with FM synthesis if you have enough operators and associated envelope generators. It's not nearly as complicated as pure additive synthesis because FM works much like natural instruments do. But additive synthesis is the cream of the crop if done properly. But that is your main problem right there. It takes a lot of resources to do real time and most use precompiled lookup tables that hold the envelopes of the partials. As a side note, some mathematic formulas are actually faster than lookup tables that hold data in main memory. So basically, you've gotten into something that might be a frustrating mess if not approached properly. Good luck with it!