yes, exactly, all true ... most 'digital is not real' puriests are mainly posturing elitistsethios4 wrote:digital resolution/discrete nature of digital.... but the signal is reproduced by analog speakers. Wouldn't speakers smooth out the digital "stairsteps" thus making it continuous? Seems like once you get up to a certain sampling rate and bit-depth, all thats missing is the analog imperfections, which can be modelled.
To take things a step further...ethios4 wrote:kennerb wrote: "David once you put a microphone in front of something it's all electronic."
Thats great! My "hippie" friends often dog on electronic music for being digital and electronic and i have to point out that 99.999% of the music we hear is electronic whether its on CD, vinyl, mp3, or live through a PA. Eric Johnson is every bit as digital as Autchre, from the sound reproduction standpoint. Now i know thats not what they are getting at, but i still think its a valid point - we've already agreed to allow digital music into our lives, so to block out some music because it has a digital/electronic source is an arbitrary line and seems to me more than a bit sentimental.
It's not done that much, but you can certainly beatmix a track that changes tempo, using two turntables. What you have to do first is let go of the DJ's fixation curse of believing that music must never change tempo and the beat must be constant. This is difficult, because we are taught from the very first thing that our primary job is to keep the beat steady and count to four. Important skill, but boring if you let it get the better of you. After that, use your hands and your pitch control, your platters- don't be afraid to really ride the record, or drag it, tweak it. It takes practice, I'm not saying its easy or pretending to be that great at it, but watch a master turntablist like Kid Koala or MixMaster Mike. They say Mike doesn't even need to turn his decks on- his hands can keep it steady, round and round.mike holiday wrote:umm how the heck could you beatmix a track that changed tempo??MrYellow wrote: For example more flexible tempos and better sequencer features for
dealing with it. Live bands vary tempo a great deal, from verse to verse,
chorus etc etc. It really does make the experience more enjoyable and
before you say dance music has to be constant, it's better to dance too as
well when suspense is being built via tempo changes.
-Ben
The last lines of the article: "Nothing can replace a live orchestra, flesh on catgut."MrYellow wrote:http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/CPC/arch ... 1SCHE.html
Amberience wrote:hehe. Whenever people proclaim that analog is superior to digital, I get images running through my head.
Images of crowds of people surrounding a storyteller in a village square. The storyteller is perched on the village well, the only source of water to the people. He is playing a flute as he waits for the crowd to silence, hoping that he'll be able to tell a good enough story and provide a good enough distraction from real life that people will pay him in loaves of bread and legs of ham.
....Grow up you analog purists.
