My 'desert island' list: LADSPA (...) LV2 (...)

technically [Barry's Satan Maximizer is] just distortion. it happens to work very nice magic on the kinds transients you get from

put it on a djembe and it will feel as if you went inside the head of the

OFFLIST because it's -somewhere- critic! At some moments in lost isle,on the *forte* notes but not only the lower notes tends to do it too, reverb seems too add some strange and unpleasant harmonics, specially in the left side. e.g. around 0'44

Thanks for this acoustic & physics piano lesson :) I'm pretty sure than am not alone on the list to have a very little

Cool to reconnect to physical instruments in this sampled world! Greets, -- Fred,

Maybe you have something to say about the fashion to tune A to 442 Hz?

As a matter of interest, when I was a wee lad, we had an old wood-framed piano at home. This couldn't be tuned to 'modern' concert pitch and hanging on a hook inside was a tuning fork marked 'C' 256 c/s (cycles per second). The keys were genuine ivory, quite yellowed with age, and well worn too, with finger shaped groves in the front lip of the most played ones.

Le 25/06/2016 12:46, jonetsu(a)teksavvy.com a écrit : > On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 05:19:22 +0200 > fred <f.rech(a)yahoo.fr> wrote: > >> Maybe you have something to say about the fashion to tune A to 442 >> Hz? > Er, that would be 432Hz. The 'universal' frequency. See on > youtube, there are tons of adaptations, from Mozart, Chopin, > Beethoven to native american indians, to Phil Collins, David Bowie > and Rammstein. Including of course the mandatory 'om' chants and > reggae music > > Maybe one of these days I'll try tuning everything down to 432Hz. > > Interestingly enough, 440Hz was adopted relatively recently.

Does "Er" means error?

Here in France the mood was to 442 around the 90's, I thought it was global it seems it doesn't ;)

On Sat, 25 Jun 2016, jonetsu(a)teksavvy.com wrote: > With 432Hz, all other note frequencies of our scales are whole > numbers whereas with 440 they are fractional (apart from A 440). > > Hence, 432 attracts many people promoting 'health energy' and > related concerns.

This assumes that the measure of a second is somehow natural... maybe there are natural seconds and standard seconds...

I smoke a ton of weed too.

On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 12:24 PM, jonetsu(a)teksavvy.com <jonetsu(a)teksavvy.com > wrote:

> I knew Steve Hillage was on to something.

Seriously, 432 contains 42, the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything, split by 3, the Holy Trinity.

On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 13:55:07 +0200

With 432Hz, all other note frequencies of our scales are whole numbers whereas with 440 they are fractional (apart from A 440).

>> a_freq = 432 >> for i in range(0, 13):

On Jun 23, 2016 6:41 AM, "fred" <f.rech(a)yahoo.fr> wrote: understanding of how & why a real grand piano is built. --- :-) An acoustic piano is far from an ideal sound generator. In fact, it is a complex collection of imperfections striving for an unattainable ideal. If we wanted a pure sound, we would use a source that produced only pure waveforms like a sine-wave generator, and perhaps added the various pure, in-tune harmonic frequencies at various (and diminished) volumes to the fundamental tone. A piano has 88 keys and string collections (most notes have 3 strings per note, bass strings only one wire string with a copper-wire coil wrapped around it, per note). The strings for any particular note (tone frequency) are often slightly detuned, so that only the middle string is more or less perfectly in tune, while the two strings to either side are detuned slightly in order to make the note's sound richer and fuller, with beat frequencies and other out-of-tune artifacts introduced. In addition, most pianos are "stretch tuned," which means that the bass notes are intentionally and progressively tuned flatter and flatter by a small incremental amount, while the treble (high) notes are tuned incrementally sharper and sharper. This is because the bass notes have such a low tone that it is their harmonic frequencies that are heard more clearly by the human ear, and those harmonic frequencies are often sharp (a higher frequency than they should be if perfectly in tune). So the bass notes are tuned so that the harmonic frequencies are heard more in tune while the fundamental frequency is slightly flat (lower frequency than it should be if it were perfectly in tune). Meanwhile, the treble strings, because they are stretched so tightly in order to produce such a high pitch (frequency, tone), immediately decay flat (become lower in frequency and out of tune immediately after they are struck by the piano hammer activated by the key pressed by the performer. So the treble notes are tuned a little sharp, so that the decay (the sound as it becomes softer immediately after it is produced) sounds more in tune. Add to those out-of-tune compromises the fact that the scale we now nearly universally use, the equal-tempered 12-tone scale that allows for playing in any key, is a compromise between the pure tunings of any specific key, so that nearly every note in the scale of any key is at least a little out of tune. The intervals of perfect fifths and perfect fourths, derived from strict mathematical relationships, are all altered, so that the fourths are stretched (tuned sharper than they should be) and the fifths are flattened (tuned closer to each of the two tones than they should be), which means that nearly all music that we hear, and nearly all instruments that play together in an ensembles, are ALL out of tune to one degree or another. In addition to all of that, people usually intentionally introduce other imperfections into their sounds or music, such as the distortion frequently used with electric guitar. Music is a vast collection of imperfections. Regarding modeled pianos, if the model is too pure and perfect, people complain that it doesn't sound realistic or authentic. If it models the actual acoustic instrument's imperfections too well, they complain that it sounds too "muddy," distorted, not clear or pure enough, etc. All of this means that it is literally impossible to please a perfectionist, because there is almost nothing perfect about music or the production of sound, and also because a perfectionist, if he tries very hard, can always find something, even the smallest thing, that he considers imperfect or not ideal. :-) Life must be very hard for the perfectionist! However, all that said, our very precisely out-of-tune 12-tone equal temperament scale, in use for pianos and most orchestral or band instruments, actually allows for an incredible amount of extremely complex and beautiful frequency and harmonic relationships that are impossible when using a completely mathematically pure single-key scale. Without this "imperfect" tuning, modern music since the time of Bach, including the beautiful Classical, Romantic, Impressionist and modern music of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Debussy, Ravel and hundreds of other composers would not be possible. OK-- I apologize for such a long-winded response! :-) Best wishes, Steve

Sorry to ramble on, but BSM is one of the best secrets of working with Audio plugins in Linux IMHO.