Album as architecture.
A personal record. Not for clients. The reason it appears in the work index is because the tools the practice owns came from making it.
— The Brief
A drum-pattern engine that respects the actual physics of a player needed to exist before the record could. No off-the-shelf tool had the right pocket logic.
— Diagnosis
Build the tool, then write the record on it. The tool would inevitably end up serving client work too — once an audit-grade pattern engine exists, a brand-launch film score can use it.
— The Build
01 · Pattern engine
A drum pattern generator with anchor-shift design — snare locked on 2 and 4, kick and hi-hat shifting underneath in defined pocket states.
02 · MIDI export
Output cleanly into Logic Pro via standard MIDI. Verified against a known reference (a song already in catalog).
03 · Album work
Long-form record composed against the tool. The tool kept the record honest about what a player would actually feel.
— Artifacts Delivered
- 01Drum pattern engine (private)
- 02MIDI export pipeline
- 03Logic Pro import workflow
- 04Long-form record (in progress)
— Outcome
The tool now sits in the practice toolkit. Two client projects since have drawn on it for film score and motion-graphics rhythm beds.