ADSR envelope Plugin

[Randlefish]

Howdy, fellas

I would like to know if you guys are aware of any ADSR envelope plugins. 
Basically, I would like to be able to change said envelope for various software instruments I may use.
As many of them don't have that inner capability, so to speak.

Let's say I wanna use some strings patches from SSS, and I would like, for the sake of sound design, to work on those patches being able to alter the ADSR without trying to act within Kontakt.

Does somebody know of any third part plugins which can be used to achieve such purpose, or if Logic has something built-in to do so? 

Edited May 3, 2022 by Randlefish

[des99]

That won't really work, because a plugin acts on the final audio signal, whereas an envelope is a per-voice synthesis function, and you may be playing multiple voices, each at different points in their envelopes.

You should use the functions of the synthesiser at the voice level to do this - eg, Kontakt. An audio plugin, acting on the audio output from all voices combined, is not going to do this.

Edited May 3, 2022 by des99

[enossified]

There is the Modulator MIDI effect in Logic, it contains an LFO and a trapezoid (attack, hold, decay) envelope generator. The two sections can modulate any automatable parameter in a track.

However, as des99 points out it's not per voice. On top of that, a trapezoid envelope works differently than an ADSR as there is no concept of release. 

Read more about using Modulator here.

[polanoid]

You could also try to sample the instrument that does not have ADSR envelope capabilities using the awesome Auto Sampler (https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/logic-using-auto-sampler) and then apply the sampler's envelopes to the sampled sound.

[enossified]

11 hours ago, enossified said:

There is the Modulator MIDI effect in Logic, it contains an LFO and a trapezoid (attack, hold, decay) envelope generator. A trapezoid envelope works differently than an ADSR as there is no concept of release.

Just a correction: technically the Modulator trapezoid is defined as attack-hold-release, but the release is not triggered by releasing a key. It starts once the hold time has expired, so I've always thought of it as decay. If hold is set to 0, then the trapezoid acts like an AD envelope.