[LAD] Tests directly routing pc's midi-in to midi-out

[Robin Gareus]

On 07/16/2010 11:46 AM, Arnold Krille wrote:
> On Friday 16 July 2010 09:50:39 Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 09:56 +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:
>>> You really should do that test first before speculating about the outcome
>>> and your audience.
>> Btw. I tested my own music.
>> First I played inside songs from other people a Ralf-mastering of my own
>> music.
>> Most people didn't like my song.
>> Some weeks later I played the same song inside other songs from other
>> people by a loudness-war-mastering.
>> Most people liked the song.
>> Playing the same song two times can't be called heavy rotation, hence
>> they were not accustomed to my song, but they need a bad mastering to be
>> fine with this song.
>> A blind study is useless regarding to musical issues.
> 
> Apples and oranges.

Since LAC2010 the bitten fruit is a banned word. You mean bananas &
oranges, don't you?

> You are working on midi-latency-jitter. Which is measurable. And the test is 
> when the jitter becomes unbearable.
> 
> Taste on the other thing is not measurable and while you could quantify it, 
> common sense says that taste-minorities are valuable too...
> 
>> Or do you think we should start mixing music optimised to loudness,
>> because tests show that the audience prefers music without dynamic?
> 
> Taste-minorities. You play your dynamic-rich songs to fans of classical music 
> and see their reactions. If you can distinguish the "like it because of 
> dynamics" from the "don't like it because of rock-vs-classical". Which just 
> shows that taste is not measurable.
> 
> And no, pop industry doesn't measure taste, it just measures profit.

LOL.

> Have fun,
> 
> Arnold

We're getting seriously off-topic here. After all, this is developer
list. What happened to the ALSA MIDI Jitter measurements and test-samples?

robin