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Nature Of Reality Is A Living Library

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My new one:

Audiomulch I like to use for experimental ideas. It

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You can really do very abstract things with it.

wow, a Dreamlike software made precisely for you isn't it ? :D

The bass is quite strong, mabye too much, (for those car-stereos with 2 woofers to make everything vibrate)

Those "breaking-air" sounds like someone training with "starters" wooden katanas (japanese swords) ...

the rest is "very normal" for you ... are you getting softer by my opinions ? :D

:( oh... you disappointed me, i think that your syntetizers are hardware... but... software?? any one can do this :(

Software can be as good as "hardware" .... If I would use hardware I would need several big rooms full of keyboards, sequencers, synthesizers, mixers, consoles etc ...I would need a castle.

Software can be as good as "hardware" .... If I would use hardware I would need several big rooms full of keyboards, sequencers, synthesizers, mixers, consoles etc ...I would need a castle.

:) never. the machines have something, a special sound, analog, a real sound, the software is digital, waste. maby can sound good, but the machines have life, have something like a gost, an artificial gost, softwarare are only numbers.

what you call "hardware" is digital too...

Only a real piano, real violin are not ....

Maybe you mean that you can easily get better results with "hardware" ...yes, that's is true, mostly because there are tons of cheaply synth-software (chafamex)

no no no!!!!! no all are digital!!!! what happen with you!!?? i talk about analog synthetizers, who uses the electricity to genere a sound wave, no digital, software are analog syntetizers

what you call "hardware" is digital too...

Only a real piano, real violin are not ....

sorry but you are wrong my friend, digital is one thing, analog is onther thing, is the same thing that do the piano or the violin, generte sound waves from electricity

:( oh... you disappointed me, i think that your syntetizers are hardware... but... software?? any one can do this :(

Anyone can do this? I don't see how using software is any easier than hardware for such a thing, and even if it was, I don't see how it makes a piece worse if it was "easier to do" than another one. Isn't the result what matters?

:) never. the machines have something, a special sound, analog, a real sound, the software is digital, waste.

I'm a bit confused there: if they have such a special sound, why did you think this was hardware-based until now? But yes, I agree with you that analog hardware has certain qualities that seem to be missing with digital one, and even if it's merely a placebo effect which only concerns the process of working yourself with it. (A placebo effect is, after all, still an effect.)

But that doesn't inherently make analog sounds "better". There are amazing things you can do with computers, which you could do with no analog machine, and for many purposes, digital production may be a lot more adequate than expensive and big outboard equipment which will in the end produce almost the same sound. And even if you -do- hear a difference in sound, who is to say the analog artefacts are musically preferable to digital artefacts?

Anyways, regarding the piece, I can't really say much there, since it's not a kind of music I'm much into. For me it's too repetitive, but that's probably just the "style". The swooshing sounds add a nice touch but they also grow a bit old over time. Some more rhythmic variety and more changes to the used sounds would have kept my interest a bit better.

I dig it. Kinda hypnotizing. Do you know the (indie) computer-game Knytt stories? It'd gladden me to see you write music for that because i think this would fit it like a glove. :- D

There are amazing things you can do with computers, which you could do with no analog machine

This is the reason, machine are limited, for this reason is eternal, machines are rare, -korg em20- and unrepetible; any one can buy or crack a software, any one can have software but only a few persons can have hardware, for this reason is better, is exotic, is live.

This is the reason, machine are limited, for this reason is eternal, machines are rare, -korg em20- and unrepetible; any one can buy or crack a software, any one can have software but only a few persons can have hardware, for this reason is better, is exotic, is live.

Just owning a piece of hardware or software doesn't just give you great music on its own. It's all about what you do with it. If it's done well, I'll prefer a piece made with the Windows Sound Recorder any time to a lovelessly tossed out piece that features vintage Moog synthies, hammond organs and tape machines.

If it's limitations you want, no worries: The human who writes the composition has plenty enough limitations to balance out any computer. ;)

Just owning a piece of hardware or software doesn't just give you great music on its own.

maby not, but give you great sound, and his spirit

yes, Analog and Digital are different things, sorry, I thought you were saying something like digital/"Natural"

I know software that can create something as good as the best "hardware" ... but maybe I just prefer the software because I can't pay the "hardware" :D

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Guys, what the gently caress you are talking about? Enjoy your day and break the silence (with music you love) and enjoy this amazing summer. Analogue equipment sound a lot better, because there are molecular physical transformations, that effect the sound that it produces, because analogue machines work on subatomar levels and this effects everything else on many levels. Digital plugins and synthesizers can not work and produce sound on a molecular and subatomar level, because they just emulate numbers, so they create sound, but this sound is like plain water. It

Yes!!!! Now im Gold fan, he knows that analog is better

Whatever details a sound may have on a "molecular level" (which generally are just arbitrary hardware artefacts and not deliberate musical decisions in the first place), that immediately ceases to matter anyways if you put it into a computer through a soundcard (which you seem to be referring to) - you'll have the same 16bit/44.1kHz (or similar) grid as in any digitally produced music. And when you output it again through speakers, it becomes, like the digitally produced piece, a "new" analog piece anyways.

But it's probably not the right thread to argue about this.

I've read every word in this thread and didn't understand ****, but it's interesting.

you know, I saw in a TV serie about Pipe Organs a guy who brought some music students and make them listen 2 organs in a big hall, a real Pipe Organ and an Allen Elec. Organ then told them to try to find out which one is the real pipes organ and which the electronic....

about a half of the students picked the wrong one (Allen organs sound very realistic I must add) ....

In live presence it could be much easier but in recording, may be confusing .... (I did know which one were the real one of course, because I play Organ, but those students were not precisely persons with no "ear training")

but perhaps we are discussing a useless topic indeed, maybe nobody cares what did you use to create you piece, only the pieces itself cares.

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