Tomorrow morning would come bright and early, but with the heat I didn't get much sleep. We began Friday morning where most begin in Metasynth, the image synth. Todd gave a demonstration and we all built a few simple examples. The one I'll cover here illustrates a simple way to build drum patterns. The first example shows a basic pattern.
Time is mapped horizontally, and pitch is mapped vertically.
Red is left, green is right, and yellow is in between. Rhythm 1 Note the sine wave icon in the Image Synth window. Unlike Todd's example, where the top two lines are mapped to a high-hat, my version mapped the same pattern to a bass drum. Todd showed us a number of different filter patterns. The example I give here is a gradual filter sweep up through the total frequency range.