One of the things I've decided in making a custom synthesizer is to re-describe the envelope. There are quite a few different envelopes out there, but nearly all of them are embellishments on ADSR: Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release.
Mine is the standard envelope, but the three time measurements are redescribed: Legato, Reverse, Sustain, and Extend.
I started this morning with what was going to be just a short bit of play on a game I wasn't even going to start. I ended up not only blowing the entire day on it but staying up far to late.
I suppose I do know why I do this to myself. The same reasons I used to stay up late at night reading a book. I love a good story.
I just started to bump into a few things. I was contemplating music, someone had asked about going to The Muppet Movie earlier today, I dropped off a friend at the airport at the end of one of the world's largest cul de sac's (i.e., "I-190"), and my head starts playing "Movin' Right Along" and trying to work up variations to it.
What I started bumping into were two of the things that for me made the original Muppet Show addictive and fantastic.
There is one software synth I got as part of a bundle that I've been intrigued by. Intrigued and intimidated. The manual for most of them is a jaunty short poem compared to the multiple tomes that make this manual, only one of them printed.
That's because it isn't just a synthesizer. It's an audio electronics sandbox, named Reaktor.
I'm resolving to be intimidated no more and dig into this thing as part of making the next piece of music I do.
I had started something this evening, and thing I'll save it for closer to the close of trying to post daily 99 days in a row. Save for later, when I can expand on it quite a bit.
I had a satisfying day today. A bit surreal taking a break but I needed the break. Multiple kinds of break.
Something you may not have noticed, if you're the type to jump in to Occupy and damn all the politicians to heck and hell and back to heck again. A little phenomenon that's kind of close to what happened to the climate change debate. A false duality in journalism.
You see the easy way out for the media to say they were unbiased is, rather than factcheck everyone they interview, just give equal air time to "both sides" of a debate. Rather than find the most thoughtful representatives, stack up equal numbers of "both sides" of a debate.
I'm asking, because the question was brought to me, twice now, once online and once in person. The inconvenient and potentialy hazardous side effects of the Occupy protests. Ambulences and fire engines can't get through when streets are blocked. People that live on an hourly wage day by day, one such person needed to get past the blockade to the closed Oakland port.
