Congratulations. So what's your point?Roqqert wrote:i already made more tracks right at the point you were thinkinghydrogen wrote:touche'AK wrote:I see you stopped thinking, right at the point where you posted that silly post.
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it's interesting becuase there is a mathematical backbone to every kind of vibration.
obviously it can be a hard line to straddle as a musician. Recently I've just been doing everything by ear.
The maths is always helpful though... when you feel like wanting to understand it. Maybe that's the right time to dig deeper.
But the last thing to say is that the maths is invalid and to think about it is a waste of time. The whole basis of electronic instruments have been designed from that way.. you Could get away from just experimenting but to me the maths is endlessly fascinating... i mean fck... you can take a sin wave, add a load of other sine waves at specifc frequencies and it turns the sin into a physically perfect shape. what the fck?!!
Watching things in oscilliscopes is also much fun.
obviously it can be a hard line to straddle as a musician. Recently I've just been doing everything by ear.
The maths is always helpful though... when you feel like wanting to understand it. Maybe that's the right time to dig deeper.
But the last thing to say is that the maths is invalid and to think about it is a waste of time. The whole basis of electronic instruments have been designed from that way.. you Could get away from just experimenting but to me the maths is endlessly fascinating... i mean fck... you can take a sin wave, add a load of other sine waves at specifc frequencies and it turns the sin into a physically perfect shape. what the fck?!!
Watching things in oscilliscopes is also much fun.
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more trippy music maths stuff.
a low pass filter basically slows down rate of change in oscillialtions.
it's easy to visualise this with a triangle wave. it starts out triangular, and then the filter slows the up and down ramp times and they get all curvey becuase a curve is a slowed down line. and voila, you have a sine wave!
It becomes more complicated with saw and squares, but you can watch in an oscilliscope and see it in action.
For me with this stuff I have to immerse myself slowly in the concepts, they hardly ever sink in right away. But then after a while, something clicks and it makes sense.
a low pass filter basically slows down rate of change in oscillialtions.
it's easy to visualise this with a triangle wave. it starts out triangular, and then the filter slows the up and down ramp times and they get all curvey becuase a curve is a slowed down line. and voila, you have a sine wave!
It becomes more complicated with saw and squares, but you can watch in an oscilliscope and see it in action.
For me with this stuff I have to immerse myself slowly in the concepts, they hardly ever sink in right away. But then after a while, something clicks and it makes sense.
I have started using SmExescope vst constantly as well whichsteevio wrote:freeware oscilloscope ;
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/VA/
i have it on my screen permanently
is a freeware osc. vst.
This
http://betabugs.de/oszillos_mega_scope/
is free, multichannel and bloody fantastic as well.
start being confident enough about your ears. Theyll tell u what harmonics on intervalsAK wrote:Congratulations. So what's your point?Roqqert wrote:i already made more tracks right at the point you were thinkinghydrogen wrote:touche'AK wrote:I see you stopped thinking, right at the point where you posted that silly post.
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