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thenewgreen  ·  4478 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Making Music by Livecoding
    on a 'real' instrument, a lot of effort goes into intonation itself, but on the other hand it is immediate and accessible; with code, you have to design the sound, knowing what sin oscillator sounds like, but then you don't have to maintain the intonation in the same way that is necessary on a 'real' instrument.
This is fascinating to me, as I've recorded lots of 'real' instruments and only a bit of 'midi' instrumentation, but never have I completely created my own sounds.

When you are doing this, do you have a sound in your mind that you are trying to create or do you often just stumble upon something that sounds good by accident? Do you get specific...say, "I'm going to create a sound that mimics a Fender Rhodes being played through a 1978 Super Reverb tube amp? -This is really cool imo and something I need to verse myself in.