Re:Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massach...
by exprofmaddy on Thursday January 02, 2025 @03:55PM
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Agreed. Drummer and programmer here. I consider electronic drums to be a different instrument from acoustic drums---especially cymbals---with somewhat comparable musical functions. The advantage of e-drums is that the sound guy can turn the volume down to zero no matter how hard I'm hitting, and that's helpful in places like churches or my apartment. The other advantage is that toms (i.e., the tom samples) are always perfectly and consistently tuned. Apart from those advantages, there's far less traditional drum expressiveness in e-drums (for traditional genres like jazz and rock). The flip side is: with e-drums I can hit the cymbal and make a laser noise.
Re:Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massach...
by bluGill on Friday January 03, 2025 @09:48AM
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With more effort I expect that eventually we will be able to model physical instruments just as good as the real thing. However it is an open question if that is good. Sometimes along the way we discover how to make something better. Of course sound is subjective and so no everyone will agree it is better.
Re:Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massach...
by davexunit on Thursday January 02, 2025 @03:53PM
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Yeah, electronic cymbals just don't feel right at all. The price to pay for being able to practice somewhat quietly, I suppose.
Re:Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massach...
by brcmthrowaway on Thursday January 02, 2025 @05:38PM
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If we can barely model a drumkit, how can we model a brain
Re:Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massach...
by jdietrich on Friday January 03, 2025 @05:14AM
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There are two distinct problems - modelling a drum kit, and modelling a drum kit with millisecond latency in a way that is accessible and affordable for non-technical musicians. The latter requires a lot more engineering compromises than the former.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8bihSwnnyc