[A6] A vs D?

[Ioannis Kazlaris]

Hi list,

In a sound design context, an organic sound is so called because it contains elements within that evolve without being predetermined by its programmer, noise modulation aside this is the purest way it can be explained, 
 
>>> Well, randomness can be easily programmed in digital synthesizers. For instance some noise leakage to the VCOs or VCFs, inermodulation between the two, non-linear curves, 1-pole lowpass filters to emulate coupling capacitors...blah, blah
 
the term organic can also be applied to the way in which a musician sequences (plays) the audible notes as it is the human element that is looked upon as organic, the word organic being used loosely to describe something that resembles the signature of something living / created by a living organism.
 
>>> same things apply whether it's sound design or music performance we are talking about

The term "fat" applies to the texture / richness of the sound and can apply to almost all types of audible signal as it is largely the harmonic content that dictates the perceived fatness of a sound source. 
 
>>> The harmonic content dictates the perceived fatness? Do you mean the more frequencies the more "phatt"? Well, white noise has all frequencies of the spectrum, so do you consider noise to be fat?

Often due to the purity the unbroken waveform produced by an analogue oscillation analogue synths can sound naturally richer to the ear or in my own terminology I would describe their sound as more solid sounding. 
 
>>> Do you consider a continuous signal as rich? If so, with a sampling rate of 44.1KHz a signal is sampled 44100 times a second. This seems continuous to me, lest we mention higher sampling rates. So, at one point or another our pure analog signal is going to hit the AD converters, and the continuity is gone.
 
Yannis


		
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