Me, to Chat GPT: "Create a mental map with 5 locations to remember key facts about synthesis."
(I LOVE THIS STUFF.)
It returns:
Here’s a mental map with five distinct locations, each representing a key concept in synthesis, and how to associate facts with them:
1. Mountain Peak - Oscillators
Symbolism: Peaks oscillate up and down like waveforms.
Key Fact: Oscillators are the sound generators, creating waveforms like sine, square, and sawtooth.
Mental Image: Picture standing on a mountain peak, watching the wind create wave-like patterns in the air.
2. Forest Path - Filters
Symbolism: The path narrows and filters your view like a filter shapes sound.
Key Fact: Filters modify the sound by emphasizing or reducing certain frequencies, such as with low-pass or high-pass filters.
Mental Image: Imagine walking a forest trail that “filters out” distractions, letting only sunlight beams (frequencies) pass through.
3. Riverbank - Modulation
Symbolism: Rivers modulate their flow depending on the terrain, just as modulation changes sound over time.
Key Fact: Modulation adds movement to sound, often using LFOs (low-frequency oscillators) or envelopes to change parameters like pitch or amplitude.
Mental Image: Think of a river flowing smoothly, then rapidly bubbling as rocks (modulators) change its behavior.
4. Sunrise Field - Envelopes
Symbolism: The gradual rise and fall of the sun mirrors the Attack, Decay, Sustain, and Release (ADSR) envelope.
Key Fact: Envelopes control the dynamics of sound over time, shaping how it starts, sustains, and ends.
Mental Image: Picture the sun rising (attack), settling high (sustain), and gently setting (release) over a golden field.
5. Concert Hall - Effects
Symbolism: A concert hall is where reverb, delay, and other effects shape the sound you hear.
Key Fact: Effects add texture, space, and character to sound, transforming basic waveforms into rich audio.
Mental Image: Imagine hearing echoes and reverberations as you step into a grand concert hall.
These vivid mental images and locations will help you recall key synthesis concepts with ease!
Wow - this is a nifty visualization mnemonic, helpful, thanks!