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Re: a moronic question




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "michael noble" <looplog@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: a moronic question


> Perhaps it depends if you needing a technical/semantic distinction or
> a distinction in common usage.  Without wanting to play devil's
> advocate, but isn't ALL sampling a form of synthetic reproduction of
> an original waveform?

A recording is not reproduction if it was source-recorded as opposed to 
re-created or replicated.

> The arguments above could be taken to imply
> that photographs are 'the real thing' whilst paintings are merely
> artistic approximations, when both are just differing forms of
> synthetic production.

A photograph is a static recording in single-frame.  Paintings are indeed 
interpretations either from or filtered through the mind and hands/etc of 
the artist.

> Similarly, wavetable synthesis, which I don't
> claim to understand in technical detail, involves synthesis based on
> sampling.  It is also not difficult to conceive of recombinant
> sampling techniques that will generate wholly new sounds based on
> sample mixing at anywhere from the sample level of microsound to the
> sonic event level.  In thus respect, a dualism as stated is possibly
> too simplistic.

Nope.  A recording is not synthesis unless that which was recorded was 
originally synthesized itself.

> but, yes, for the purposes of common usage, sampling involves the use
> of "real" sounds while synthesis, synthetic ones ;)

Basically, though I'm sure there are lots of people who use sampling that 
keep up a pretense of 'creating' the sounds per se, but that's the 
non-synthesized source of several firefights on LD since its inception. :)

> -looplog
>
> On 11/30/08, SP Goodman <spgoodman@earthlight.net> wrote:
>> From: "Bruce Gilman" <cuica@interworld.net>
>>>
>>> I have a question for composers or performers who use samples.
>>>
>>> Sorry to wave my ignorance.  Please indulge the ignorant.
>>>
>>>
>>> If you write or play with samples, let's say string samples, are you
>>> using synthesized sounds?
>>>
>>>
>>> Again my apologies for interrupting,
>>> B.G.
>>
>> Hi Bruce,
>>
>> The source of the sample would determine whether the sound being used is
>> synthesized or not, I'd guess.  I never found a way to satisfactorily
>> replicate Tablas, for instance.  When I got Fruity Loops (now FLStudio) 
>> and
>> a sample-set of Tabla sounds I could 'do' as such without having to 
>> resort
>> to synth programming-fiddling.  Moreover if one uses FLStudio one is 
>> using
>> non-synthesized samples in many cases.  I lean towards the use of 
>'real' 
>> but
>> then I'm a grumpy old fart to some.
>>
>> SP Goodman
>> *
>> http://www.youtube.com/spgoodman
>> http://www.last.fm/music/Stephen+Goodman
>>
>>
>>
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