Lekko manual

Click the patch name at the top left of the interface, then choose the sound you want.

These two knobs shape the volume envelope. Attack sets how soft or sharp the initial transient is. Release sets how long the note takes to fall away after you lift the key.

A long attack turns the samples into something closer to a pad. A short release makes the whole instrument tighter, at the cost of the natural decay.

These controls send the signal to the built-in effects.

I captured both from hardware picked for this instrument. Neither one is modelled. They are made for instant use, not for tweaking.

Underneath the knobs there are switches to change the character of the effect. All of them are sampled from vintage analogue hardware.

Every sample keeps a little air before the note hits. That costs some latency, but it lets the subtleties of a very softly played piano through.

This knob sets how much of that air stays.

It can also remove the initial transient of the piano completely. Together with the Attack knob, that is useful for creative work where a realistic response does not matter.

The volume of the sustain pedal thump.

Set it to taste.

A high-pass filter on the effects send.

Keep a patch as wet as you like. The low end of the echo and the reverb will not cloud the mix.

The volume of the tape noise, captured from a tape machine.

It adds noise on top of the recordings. It cannot remove the noise already in the samples, because that noise is part of their tone.

Some Afterglow patches take three kinds of controller: CC1, which is the standard mod wheel, MPE, and Expressive E's Touché.

Pick the one you play with here.

The global volume.

Pre-mapped to CC11, so you can automate it without extra setup.