In Reply to: All sounds, from the screech of nails on a blackboard to a symphony orchestra, are made up of sine waves. posted by Tre' on March 18, 2012 at 14:14:53:
It's like saying teh the earth is 'round-ish) or quoting one of Netwon's laws.What human's pay attention to with musical notes might be a far more useful approach, especially when we are talking about reproducing rarefactions and compressions in air, don't you think?
Is air linear in compression and rarefaction? Are speakers!?
Do you know what human's care most about with a musical note, as it happens in real time?
There are three basic components. Start, middle and end.
Remember that lots of notes have only the beginning and the end, some instruments can only do those two, and if an instrument that can do a middle bit or not is recognisable when a note doesn't have it, then the middle bit probably doesn't matter a whole lot. Yes? And that's the only bit that approaches a sine wave.
Try again?
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 03/18/12
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Follow Ups
- I am afraid I'm strongly with the first responder - It's an abstraction - Timbo in Oz 21:24:00 03/18/12 (3)
- RE: I am afraid I'm strongly with the first responder - It's an abstraction - Tre' 14:15:02 03/21/12 (2)
- RE: I am afraid I'm strongly with the first responder - It's an abstraction - Timbo in Oz 14:38:40 03/21/12 (1)
- Thank you (nt) - Tre' 16:32:14 03/21/12 (0)