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

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Fri Jul 16 11:30:19 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 13:26 +0200, Robin Gareus wrote:
> 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

The blame isn't on Arnold, but me. Test results will come ASAP. Btw. if
you would listen 5 hours to 4-on-the-flour, you probably would welcome
off topics too. Pardon for the OTs.

- Ralf




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