[sdiy] Ways for innovation

[Gordonjcp]

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> . No matter how often I try to explain to people that a piece of software cannot recreate a performance on a real instrument, I always have a bunch of people snapping at me...

A piece of software is a real instrument, too.  In fact, many modern instruments are "pieces of software" running on dedicated hardware platforms.

I can't recreate the nuances of playing the guitar on a piano, so I use the one that works best for what I'm trying to do.  I can't ride my bicycle through metre-deep bogs and over waist-high snowdrifts and I can't drive my Landrover through little forest tracks barely wider than my shoulders.  So, I use the most appropriate thing to get me where I want to go.

>  they express their unfounded claims about how a digital waveform is that same or "higher resolution" (uh I hate that) than an analog waveform...

When you play back a digital recording, what hits your ears is analogue.  Unless it's recorded at a sufficiently low quality that you have significant artifacts below about 8kHz, you cannot hear any difference.

You definitely cannot hear the "steps" in a 16-bit recording, and you definitely cannot hear the slices in anything sampled faster than about 32kHz.

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