You can do envelopes segments that are a percentage of the note duration in csound. It works there because the sequence (they call it a score) in csound specifies the note pitch and duration. VST sequencers and midi work with a note on event and a note off event so I can't see how it would work.

On that note, I'm aiming to be more of a producer of music and less of a consumer of music production equipment. thats quite a strange thing to say. unless you're a singer in an acoustic environment, you have no choice but to consume music production equipment, Obviously! I said MORE producing LESS...

How so? Clara seems to be very conservative musically despite playing the spaciest of instruments. She talks about "real music" meaning of course the western classical tradition. It's interesting if you watch that documentary about the BBC radiophonic workshop. The tape musicians there hat...

I'm a modular user and fan but what the fck is with the Buchla 200e. You think such an awesome instrument would inspire some awesome tracks but it doesn't seem to be happening. It's a $20000 machine but the youtube demos are fucking awful. I reckon thats the reason why some people are cynical about ...

Another thing that I like to do is run digital synths through analog effects. A modular is great for this but guitar pedals are a budget option too. You can get a 'best of both worlds' sound' the same way analog synth sounds work nicely with digital 'verbs and bit crushers.

I love the Kawai K5000s. It's got an unashamedly digital sound with lots of high sparkle and loads of aliasing if you want it. The ADD synth engine is immense and can do all sorts of stuff from sine wave pings to complex weird bubbly washy stuff. There are PCM oscillators as well and the PCM samples...

Ethically it is a bit iffy but a hackintosh is a pretty cool way of having the best of both worlds. If you follow one of the recent guides on the net you can build a high end desktop machine that will run both OSX, Win7 and Linux. I set up a hackintosh on a s10 netbook so I could play with the numer...

I'd get one of the Roland JV series. I have a Jv10101 and once you get into an editor you can get a lot of mileage out of it. They are probably cheaper than an equivalent VSTi. It is a "rompler" but that shouldn't be a dirty word. It is pretty deep and has loads of parameters to edit. It h...