opcode of the day would be a great feature.
it would be a great way to nudge people into doing a little experimentation.

would an opcode of the week on the mailing list be too intrusive?
it would give users a chance to have a dialog about it and share code
snippits.

On 12/12/05, Steven Yi <stevenyi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was reading through Barry Vercoe's page on Csounds.com
> (http://www.csounds.com/vercoe) and came across this gem:
>
> "Second, envelopes became more natural with multi-controllable
> exponential decays. Indeed, in 1976 while writing my Synapse, for
> Viola and computer, I found I could not match the articulation of my
> soloist unless I made the steady-state decay rate of each note in a
> phrase be a functional inverse of the note length. (In this regard
> string and wind players are different from pianists, who can
> articulate only by early release. Up to this time we had all been
> thinking like pianists, i.e. no better than MIDI.) My envlpx opcode
> fixed that."
>
> I had never come across this opcode in my own usage and after reading
> through the manual entry and trying it out, found it to have a rather
> lovely character to it.
>
> Just thought I'd mention that in case others haven't come across it
> yet either. =)
>
> steven
>
> p.s. - Would it be of interest to have an "opcode of the day" or
> random opcode listing on the csounds.com/manual page?
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