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Re:Is old music killing new music? by cassianoleal on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @03:20PM (#29999430)
There's a reason why DAWs usually have a "humanizer" knob. Turns out humans relate better to imperfect things that feel like were created by other humans than they do to overly perfect things obviously created by machines.
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Re:Is old music killing new music? by whiddershins on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @03:31PM (#29999590)
But those imperfections are incorrect as opposed to correct variations
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Re:Is old music killing new music? by cassianoleal on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @03:43PM (#29999817)
No, it's about tiny and usually unnoticeable delays in hitting a note or a beat. There's nothing incorrect about them. They are not variations either, just tiny mistakes that happen to _all_ humans when they play an instrument.
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Re:Is old music killing new music? by whiddershins on Thursday January 20, 2022 @11:55AM (#30011448)
The assumption that these variations are mistakes is the incorrect one.

There is even research showing the variations in timing follow large macro cycles.

None of this is random or mistakes when we are talking about high level players.

Some is deliberate. Some is totally unconscious.

But not mistakes.

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