Thinking about what to reply to the "Can never have too many clocks" thread, I came up with that with a lot of unsynchronized clocks you can produce emergent rhythms, something that's hard for humans to do. It seems evident that a lot of people like to use music tech to make unusual pitch relationships and event relationships. Benjolins and Cocoquantuses for instance. We can also say that dynamic timbres are a strong point for synthesis: ring modulation, audio rate FM, wave folding, wave shaping, and of course filtering. A lot of those sounds are found mainly if not exclusively in synthesizers. Seems to me a lot of modular synth composers are always looking for new textures and timbres, even if only to apply them to boring repeatable patterns. Music synthesis has a vector towards novelty. I did have an idea (not really practical) to write something for a chorus, a vocalise sung by humans, that attempted to imitate synthesizer sounds. But that would amount to nothing but comedy.
Statistics: Posted by pugix — Sat Jul 27, 2024 11:38 am — Replies 35 — Views 925