Oh Jay wrote:
What comes from a digital synthesizer is a digital and original sound.
nope , it's NOT "an original sound" as it's jus' a "digitized" sound that ORIGINALLY comes from some ANALOG source !!! ;-)
Since the sound is produced by a printed circuit inside the digital synthesizer, it is purely and completely digital and original. Per-Olof Karlsson wrote:
True, the sounds from your mobile phone are indeed *digitally produced*, but the actual sound emanating from your phone is analogue, like any other sound on the planet. It may be wrong to use the word analogue in this context but I originally did just to explain the fact that sounds as a physical phenomenon is an analogue signal, e.g. a sound wave. Digital sound is just sound that was processed digitally before it was output as an analogue sound wave. This is also why I claim that digital sound is always flawed, since somewhere in the process the sound was digitized, i.e. "approximated", and therefore inferior to the original sound wave from whatever the instrument may be. This generalization becomes difficult to use with sounds that were constructed digitally from the beginning, like electronic instruments.. (and your mobile phone :) So yes, the human ear is certainly "analogue", since there is no such thing as a digital sound. To the last statement of yours, what comes from a digital instrument, whatever it may be, is digital until it becomes a sound, then it's analogue. Always.
So your argument is that a sound whatever instrument or device would has created it is always analog. Never mind if it was produced by a printed circuit, an analog oscillator or another source, when it gets the speaker it automatically becomes analogue. That way we can't differentiate between digital sound and analog sound. Then, I wonder why we draw a distinction between one and another. Oh Jay later wrote:
as uwe schmidt is also the main man behind the senor coconut project , where he uses A_WHOLE_LOT of analog equipment
He runs other projects also, like Almost Digital. ;-)
Uwe mainly uses his Akai sampler for the Coconut project, as far as I know.
well ... jus' think of all the ( peripheral ;-) equipment that makes his akai sampler sound the way it sounds ... & u know what i mean !!!
Senor Schmidt also uses Akai MPC3000 when he plays live as Atom Heart and Lassigue Bendthaus. -------------------------- How Analog And Digital Recording Works http://www.howstuffworks.com/analog-digital.htm DER AUTOMAT