18 Jun
2018
18 Jun
'18
11:59 p.m.
On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 3:13 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons(a)linuxaudio.org>
wrote:
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.
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.