Stuff they didn't tell you in the manual

As ever the actual times for the envelopes and LFO etc. are not given in the manual. So here are my tables. The K5 envelope segments are defined by a rate and a level, and different envelopes have varying numbers of segments. However the segments appear to be identical and the rate times differ according to whether the slope is rising to maximum level (ie is an "attack" phase) or falling to minimum level (ie is a "decay" or "release". For this reason I haven't listed all segments separately. In the DDF, the rates are identical, whether the segment rises or falls, and appear to be the same as the DHG "decay" times which, since both of these envelopes determine harmonic content, makes sense I suppose. As the DDF envelope can be inverted, it could be argued, there is no need to differentiate between falling and rising slopes. I didn't sample the times at exactly the same settings (sloppy, sloppy, very sloppy), so I padded out the tables so that, at least, they all line up to simplify comparison.

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