Re: Beyond Stereo to multiple Speakers
Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 11:04 am
Martin,
Thank you for your detailed reply and analysis. I stipulate that my comments regarding multi-channel benefits are to be construed as applicable to dry sampled organs.
What I hear is the spurious generation of new frequencies. It is rather like two notes are turned into a nasty triad. These are what offend my ears and not the dissonance caused by constructive and destructive interfernce (beats) caused by tuning. Indeed, I personally enjoy highly dissonant harmonizations such as Penderecki's tone clusters as heard for example in "Threnody For The Victims Of Hiroshima", or thickly textured jazz chords. To my ears the IM heard in the demonstration is very noticeable as well as undesireable. I will repeat the demonstration using sine waves with the intervals tuned to Just Intonation. I will change the audio chain to a MOTU 24 io PCIe and Mackie HR824. Also I will include an example with the two notes routed to different audio channels and air mixed. If I am right, the differences should proove to be very audible and measureable. If I'm wrong, it won't be the first time nor the last.
Joe
Thank you for your detailed reply and analysis. I stipulate that my comments regarding multi-channel benefits are to be construed as applicable to dry sampled organs.
What I hear is the spurious generation of new frequencies. It is rather like two notes are turned into a nasty triad. These are what offend my ears and not the dissonance caused by constructive and destructive interfernce (beats) caused by tuning. Indeed, I personally enjoy highly dissonant harmonizations such as Penderecki's tone clusters as heard for example in "Threnody For The Victims Of Hiroshima", or thickly textured jazz chords. To my ears the IM heard in the demonstration is very noticeable as well as undesireable. I will repeat the demonstration using sine waves with the intervals tuned to Just Intonation. I will change the audio chain to a MOTU 24 io PCIe and Mackie HR824. Also I will include an example with the two notes routed to different audio channels and air mixed. If I am right, the differences should proove to be very audible and measureable. If I'm wrong, it won't be the first time nor the last.
Joe