SV: Re: SV: Re: [sdiy] Old analog synths chladni patterns!
karl dalen
dalenkarl at yahoo.se
Thu May 10 21:11:49 CEST 2007
--- Magnus Danielson <cfmd at bredband.net> skrev:
> From: karl dalen <dalenkarl at yahoo.se>
> Subject: SV: Re: [sdiy] Old analog synths chladni patterns!
> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 00:03:53 +0200 (CEST)
> Message-ID: <385556.23848.qm at web27608.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
>
> > > Must be tricky. With a digital synth, though, you could do these
> > > 'granular synthesis' exercises if you model the whole synth as AND
> > > gates in the S-plane, so-called SAND gates... ;-P
> > >
> > > A bit more serously, Ian was right with his questions:
> > > "How? Where's the surface?"
> > > The signal from a synthesizer is just a one-dimensional value as a
> > > function of time, not a vibrating surface. And the vibrating surface
> > > of the violin is a vibrating surface, not a sound, and definitely not
> > > a one-dimensional value as a function of time. Some of the vibrations
> > > make sound in the whole room, some doesn't. And almost all the sound
> > > from the violin is made by something else than this particular
> > > surface.
> > >
> > > :-)
> > >
> > > /mr
> >
> > Well, it could depend on the philosphical idea about sounds in dimensions!
> > Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.
> >
> > The speaker are a vibrating surface and it could be seen as a part of the
> > synthesizers surface.:-)
>
> What? Some *still* claims that speakers behave like a point source. Sigh!
>
> Yeah, each element is a vibrating surface. The way that the speaker system
> (include ports, grill, shape, placement, attitude etc.) converts the one-
> dimensional voltage applied to them (another stupid concept - speakers
> elements should be current-driven!) into a three-dimensional expanding
> wavefront with time convolved over that one-dimensional time signal results
> in
> how the synth "sounds" in the room.
>
> To claim that the PA-system is part of the instrument becomes quite clear as
> you include "how it behaves in the room" into the judgement.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
All sounds are one dimensional its only the brain thats multi dimensional!
Hehe! :-)
You know the philosophical idea about sounds in dimensions!
Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.
Hehe!
KD (teasers corner)
>
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