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The Metasynth is metamagic! I have had it for only one night and only played with tweaking presets. The fact that you use a picture of the preset to work from is an amaziing way to program. Music to light is not a gimmick. It is part of our ongoing evolutionary experience. In the Metasynth, it provides infinite ways to program. Take filters. In the amazing reservoir of tools to tweak with, you have 49 filters, and each of them begs to be tweaked. There are over sixty tools for manipulating presets, or building sounds from scratch. Oh, and these do not include the effects and wave table palettes, nor several other app- lications, such as reverse symmetry tool.
Going back to music to light: here is where the real impor- tance of this synth takes hold. Because it is a powerful and wondrous synth, all reviews I have seen focus on the synth per se and sometimes even say that the music to light aspect is just a cute gimmick. Not so. Famous classical composers have for years attempted to score their dreams of a music to light symphony. Until recently, the technology to manifest these dream was not available. Now, some old music to light compositions are being staged. Why has the relationship of music to light been important historically?
Eric Wenger has put together a beautiful product with other related products such as Artmatic, Videologic, Xx and Bryce, all of which become more than their constituent parts, when considered as a whole. He has, however made a serious mistake in one of his basic algorhythms. Not too worry, you might never notice, because the problem is more intuitive and recursive than that which would directly interfere with programming music.
Consider that both music and light are from the frequency domain, then look at how his algorhythms are set-up and you will be able to understand this mis- take. In brief, music is harmonic to light and visible light is the basic grande octave.
Metasynth is a powerful, magical tool. It provides us with a new way of sound design and composition. When such a tool becomes available which also takes specific advantage of the harmonic relation between music and light (the Grande Octave), then, I believe, it will explode into our lives, helping to heal, introducing us to the next dimension and allowing us to playfully explore the mysteries of gravitation.
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