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Stable simple waveforms are observably more consonant than those with many transients. Nobody would have this dumb, stubborn discussion about rhythms.
by twirlock 6y ago
Stable simple waveforms are observably more consonant than those with many transients.
Nobody would have this dumb, stubborn discussion about rhythms.
- enriquto 6y agoYou are right, this is not a discussion worth having when you can do the experience. If you have a digital synthesizer, just try the experiment that I describe and listen whether you can tell the periodic from the non-periodic waveform. You say that they are perfectly distinguishable, but I just did the experiment (even drawing the lissajous figures) and there's no real difference except the perceived pitch.
- twirlock 6y agoI didn't say they were perfectly distinguishable. You have reasons simple ratios don't result in physical waveform attributes relevant to music. I posit you should just really think about that for like five seconds. Otherwise I don't know what to tell you. Look up Pythagoras or maybe what a wave is or something.