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it's just a matter of
available computing horsepower and time!
Originally posted by MikeNice81
reply to post by StargateSG7
As a professional engineer and producer I have used the software to change gender, tweek acoustics and what have you. Most of it sucks and is noticable to even the untrained ear.
Plus if you're recording in a room with sibelance(sp?), flutter, and or rattles the software has to take frequencies out to compensate. That means that frequencies in the instrument may disapear as well. It could be something as simple as changing the structure of the harmonic overtones. However, it is noticable and can mess up a recording.
You can manipulate the reverb characteristics and space using a convolution reverb. However if the recording is poor quality and the room is #e then it won't help. It sounds like complete #e in Westminster Abbey or in the wilds of Alaska. It still sounds like a horrible recording.
The only software I've seen that will completely change the words was a forensics software that cost damn near $1,200. Maybe something has came out and I missed it. Other wise it is cost prohibitive for most people.
it's just a matter of
available computing horsepower and time!
....Plus I still have not run across a program that can mix as well as a human. It might give you a pretty RTA, but it never catches the subtlety of the human ear and hand.
Originally posted by MikeNice81
Originally posted by debunky
Variable cost is 0
Torrent
9 billion copies cost exactly the same as 3.
The variable cost has to include physical product because not everyone wants a digital file. I refuse to buy 128Kbs MP3s. I want a physical product and I am willing to pay for it. There are still people out there like me. This means that the cost of that product has to be figured in to distribution.
So on a torrent do I get a download with the same speed as with dedicated band with? I haven't tried it. From how it was explained to me it varies depending on the number of people logged in to the network at a given time. So couldn't it be slower if say only 10 people were logged in to an artist's particular area on the iTunes network?
[edit on 29-6-2010 by MikeNice81]
Originally posted by StargateSG7
Originally posted by mattifikation
Well... movies and television shows cost money to produce - lots of it. Millions of dollars. Software is created on a big budget, also. Many of today's programs have millions of lines of code - one person would take a lifetime to do all that. Songs can be made by anyone with instruments, but require a phenomenal degree of talent and teamwork by the band members which deserves to be rewarded.
If all of this stuff was free, how would the people who create it get by? Should they go on welfare or something?
Originally posted by Blaine91555
The welfare mentality, which is what this is, is not only destructive to the individual, it is destructive to a society..
Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
Big Media is as slow as a dying dinosaur. Only a handful are prompt in response. For instance South Park was smart enough to put the full versions of their shows on their site, in full quality, with censors removed. All you have to endure is 3 commercials the entire show.
When anyone can go download the entire South Park megatorrent it'd be absurd to not do this, but Big Media doesn't get it.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
I wonder if people know that it is already in FULL effect in the entirety of the young Generation. It came unnoticed.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
reply to post by B.Morrison
"If I dont balance things out they will be balanced out"? - yeah, I could see that. Good point.
Originally posted by B.Morrison
this might sound absurd..
but if you downloaded the book,
and then posted a cheque or money order directly to the author,
to the price of what you WOULD have paid in the 'lovely' bookstore,
you would bypass ALL overhead AND the publishers cut,
and ALL the intended monetary value/profit of the artowork
would go straight to the artist who created it.
if you care so passionately about paying your favorite authors (and being paid yourself), you might be better off doing things that way instead.
Originally posted by B.Morrison
no need for sarcasm, I gave you more credit then that.
Originally posted by rick1
reply to post by daskakik
Musicians and songwriters have to wise up. They need to stop placing their entire song online. You can hear 1 minute of mine. That is enough time to hear the verse and the chorus and plenty of time to decide if you like it enough to buy it. If you you don't like my price go ahead pal you can steal as many one minute clips of mine as you want. Just think if every musician and songwriter did that. We're working on getting the word out.