adsr and lfo abolish (Don goes off the deep end again)

[jbv]

> Martin Czech :
>
>    The human ear is in some way optimised for speech recognition.  If you
>    take a look at the sensitivity curves from psychoacoustic books, where
>    is the maximum? Where the main energy of speech is!
>
>

Don Tillman :

>  The ear isn't going to care about curves,
> waveforms, harmonic spectra or any of that, although those are
> important descriptive tools for us.  The ear hears a process going on
> and tries to relate with it.  And the synth player sees a process in
> front of him and tries to mess with it to make some cool sounds.
>

Sorry, Don, but I think you're at the same time right and wrong.

You're right because all the things you describe really happen, really exist
and really make sense.
But you're basically wrong in the way you're confusing basic psycho-acoustic
phenomenons and
more complex psychological / sociological behaviors & motivations.

Briefly, I would say that the ear DOES care about curves (and ONLY about
curves), while
higher functions of the brain and nervous system care about all the other
things you described
(sorry, I have no time to elaborate right now).

This is a very important difference in terms of methodology.

Regards,

jbv