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Can anyone versed in music explain in simple terms why it always sounds good, while real instruments sound terrible if you don't know how to play them, even in
by Al-Khwarizmi 4y ago
Can anyone versed in music explain in simple terms why it always sounds good, while real instruments sound terrible if you don't know how to play them, even in isolation (let alone if there are several clueless musicians playing)?
I understand that what you call "time quantization" means that the time is discrete and notes are played in the next "beat" rather than when you press them.
But what did they do with scale exactly? If you just play random notes in a piano it sounds awful, here it sounds good.
- _nivlac_ 4y agoI think the main reason is that it uses the pentatonic scale - there are only 5 notes in it (repeating every octave), and these notes generally sound good together. On a piano, this would be all of the black keys. It's a common starting scale for beginners learning to improvise, particularly on the guitar.
- 4gotunameagain 4y agoMinor nitpick, it is only the F# major pentatonic scale that only uses the black keys of the piano Every scale has a pentatonic version, it just means that you skip some notes basically. Apart from that, I think that the sampled sounds in Plink fit together more easily as well because of the synchronised Staccato, where there are gaps between the notes and the timing is done automatically. Great thing !