The big difference is how humans and machines are making the choices. Machines can create any frequency and combine all kind of frequencies in millions of ways. Does that make it music?
BTW, you shouldn't limit envelopes to volume. Sound, frequencies, purity (like noise vs. defined frequencies), things like vibrato envelopes, changes in the noise amount and type, etc. have envelopes on every note or the structure of parts or the entire piece of music.
Looking at waveform envelopes describes just a small percentage of what you can actually hear in a single note of music.
Ingo
Von: Pd-list [mailto:pd-list-bounces@lists.iem.at] Im Auftrag von i go bananas Gesendet: Freitag, 7. November 2014 12:43 An: anders.vinjar@bek.no Cc: PD List Betreff: Re: [PD] Looking for research in amplitude envelopes of music instruments during performance.
The amount of real life envelopes is close to endless when you're looking
at performaces of good musicians. That's one reason why good musicians cannot be replaced by machines.
pretty sure machines can create a close to endless amount of envelopes too. It's just that nobody has taken enough care to start programming them that way.
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 8:27 PM, anders.vinjar@bek.no wrote:
"R" == Rich Eakin rtepub@gmail.com writes:
R> What I'd like to find is more how the ADSR curves look for actual R> musical phrases.
Hi Rich.
Bill Schottstaedt set up a wonderful hands-on about extracting envelopes (amp, pitch) from recordings of birdsongs, getting great results in the synthesis:
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/sndscm.html#animalsdoc
I've used the same approach on recordings of more complex natural environments, but the method would be useful for recordings of notes or phrases played on musical instruments.
Cheers,
-anders
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