TAPE: CHANGING THE ENVELOPE
 
 
Cutting and Splicing tape
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Cutting the tape at different angles was used to create different attacks and decays.

   
Attack and Delay Cuts

 
1
Soft attack. Soft decay
 
2
Combined attack and decay of two sounds
 
3
Medium attack. Medium decay
 
4
Harder attack. Abrupt finish
 
5
Softer. Less abrupt than number 4
 

Information from Introduction to Electroacoustic Music by Barry Schrader (Published Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1982

  You are going to learn about envelope without having to splice a tape.