For years I've been processing acoustic input sound but last week I wanted to do something with synthetic resonators. A friend suggested to try a recorded attack sample as the resonator input. That was a nice idea, but there was of course an important amplitude effect depending on the sample's frequency content. So I was looking for a way to construct a nice attack sample with 'white spectrum'. After hours spent on noise bursts and sweeps I gave up, it just did not work.
Today when loading Obiwannabee's old patch 'efficient-drums' it occurred to me that 'efficient-snare' could be such an almost white spectrum attack. Well it's not completely white but it comes close. So this is indeed the ideal resonator starter, and produces a more interesting resonance than a 1-sample pulse.
Attached is a demo patch [efficient-percussion] featuring a bateria de samba. All sounds are generated by one monophonic synth.
Katja
http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/efficient-percussion.pd.zip