Quest For The Real ,
To make synthesized instruments have that real feel and sound is an ever enduring endeavor for many that is if that is the objective , sometimes of course the goal is to make what is real sound synthetic for example ; a vocoder used on a real vocal or a guitar driving a string synth , yah sometimes you want those weird robotic or clippie or strange OTHER WORLD sounds and distortions but good distortion and bad distortion is another topic and a tangent so for now at least that will not be a consideration .

The first thing you need to do is vary the velocity in such a way as to emulate a human player .
So what does this mean exactly , simply randomizing the timing and velocities will not cut the mustard I mean it is good but still far away from the goal .
People do not play instruments in a random manor that is completely insane and that is what most VST’s and standalone attempt to use and commercialize as though they have the real stuff down pat and it is just simply not true they are just selling you a lie.

They want to piss in your ear and take your money and then laugh about it.

The 2nd thing you need to do is to emulate natural characteristics that is to say make them reactive .
For example, a microphone does not have a truly flat EQ , no none of the properties and attributes of a microphone are flat like a pancake nor ought any of the parameters used to attempt to emulate them be ,

Same for instruments a guitar for example ; each and every note do not have the same exact reaction to the same force applied even the same notes of different strings differ to the same exact applying force even if applied exactly in the same way ,

I am not talking massive variance here it is slight but nonetheless when you hit a A note on another string it varies reactive properties from the other notes even other ‘ A ‘ notes.

Basically reactive is curved and not a strait curve at that , I guess in a sense that could be called a distortion but it is the natural difference between the synthesized and the real. The reactive curves of variance emulation instruments can also be seen as a signature of that instrument or microphone.

Then after obtaining all this variation then a very slight random range might be added to the reactive curves of independent notes just to make things a bit more interesting.

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Coke
I recently uploaded that old coke commercial song and ok yeah sure it is horribly off in a whole bunch of places even I can hear it but that is not my point .
The point is that where it is on it is really on target and is much better than I can actually play but mostly just loops and midi editing and such . .
The base guitar even sounds real to me I can play one just like I can play all instruments but I can not play a base guitar nearly as good as that.

So then the thought has occurred to me that is what it all boils down to editing and punching stuff in and no matter how bad something is edit the heck out of it and eventually it will start to sound ok.
It is just a theory I got ;lots and lots of them.

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Earlier today I was listening to the comedy part I uploaded to DMusic.
You know what , as a comedian I totally suck.

Anyway nobody from the general public on this site to care so I will keep on with my grand delusion.

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On the song I wrote and put on Dmusic today “ Spirits “ I hear a voice .
Not the one’s I put on there but someone else.
It is easier to hear on the wave file.
About 20 or 30 seconds into the song they mumble something and at the end of the song sounds to me like they say hey .
I guess it is my imagination but seemed maybe odd so I wanted to tell about it

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I have what I believe is an interesting tid bit about my song Time Travelers as if it matters.

Anyway , the other night I had this dream .
There was this guy sitting on the floor of a spaceship playing a guitar and singing a song.
You guessed it this is the song he was singing and he had a calendar about 5 feet to the right of him and it was turned to the month of March and one date was circled the 23rd .
The year at the top of the calendar was 2951.

What I ponder is did I write this song that he will be singing in the future or did I simply remember a song that he is going to write ,
Anyway I got it first , it is my song not his.
I just want to make that clear ahead of time.

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I discovered today I can play all instruments I play them horribly but I can play them all.
See I realized that no matter what notes I hit it is a chord .
I now know I can sing , pure ear poison as in the day the music died but I can sing ,

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