[hank alrich]

TimR wrote:

On Thursday, December 11, 2014 10:05:17 AM UTC-5, Peter Larsen wrote:
Erm, yes, a still image in audio happens to constitute silence, there is
nothing to perceive if you have no change over time.

Kind regards

(NB: Peter's earlier terseness was unusual. When the forum needs a rude
jerk it's usually my job. His attitude was a carryover from dealing with
a new poster here who wants much, but pays little attention to the
advice given. Peter is most often a stellar example of excellent
manners. Me, not so much sometimes.)

Well, I wondered about that. When you play a tape, the sound stops if the
tape isn't moving past the head.

I guess if I'd thought deeper about it, a note always has duration, and a
note of duration zero would be silent.

So when you all mix a performance, you are always listening to it as a
moving image?

The data representing music must flow in order for there to be music. In
the case of video we have a series of individual images presented in
succession rapidly enough that our visual processing sees a streaming
"moving picture". We can stop that flow and obserrve a single frame from
that stream. There is no direct equivalent for audio.

If I wish to examine a section of a piece, could be down to a single
note, but not often unless I am looking for some weird noise of very
short duration, I select the length to be looped, so that I can hear it
again and again to deal with whatever.

MIDI does get stuck if it misses the off command. Maybe what I need to do
is use a MIDI file and an anti-off command. Not that I know how to do
this! But a program like Tapper that steps through MIDI on command
might work with suitable material.

I did want to use normal recorded music for this rather than something
canned, but anything will help.


The stuck MIDI note imay not be suitable for your study efforts. To gain
understanding of a chord, in my experience, it helps to hear it
approached, played, and followed. I find it easier to hear the problem
voicing in context, as the voices change.

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