[LAU] Off-topic: "A look at how the Behringer Model D compares with the Minimoog"

[Paul Davis]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 3:13 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org>
wrote:

> ​
> > An electrical instrument, whether analog like the Moog Model D  or
> digital
> > like Pianoteq can't do this: it never generates ANY sound at all except
> via
> > some amplified speaker system. So it is entirely reasonable to think that
> > you will always hear the same thing when you play a recording (analog or
> > digital) of the instrument over the same playback system that you first
> > heard it on.
>
> There is even no way to tell how it should sound, except when the
> original amp / speaker system is considered part of the instrument.
>

​Right, that's a better way to think of it. It also has the important
corollary that since you have typically more freedom to place the speakers
in a space than you do many instrumental setups (e.g. orchestra!), the
physical speaker arrangement within the room is inherently a part of the
instrument for that performance too.​
​
Obviously, that's true to a more limited extent for some acoustic
instruments too - "let's try the piano over there" - but the degrees of
freedom are generally reduced.
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