Stu,

you find my answers written inline.

Best regards
Dieter Doepfer
Doepfer Musikelektronik GmbH
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> hi group,
>
> i need to be able to use a trigger (in this case closed hihat) to kill
> the release stage of an envelope (open hh), and i could use help on
> two questions:
>
> will putting a negative cv into a vc-adsr (set manually to a long
> release) achieve this,

yes, at least for the A-141. But I don't know how other VC-ADSRs work.

> or will the release stage continue at the pace it was set at when the gate

was

> released
>
> is there a way to do this with the standard adsr

solution #1: universal vactrol module across the Release potentiometer
solution #2: VC switch across the Release potentiometer (e.g. A-150)