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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