Any science to explain the “weight” or “3D depth” of hardware audio vs software that some people claim?

[greententacle]

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[BertKoor]

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Absolutely worth repeating, a pity it was on the bottom of the page.

[stillshaded]

who can tell which is software or analog?

https://bezmusic.bandcamp.com/album/blind-test

i dont think it needs science, you can hear the difference

err prolly one of the worst blind tests ever. One is stereo, one is mono... guess we know which one is the soft synth.

Edit: also I've done this type of thing with Diva and a synth it doesn't even emulate (ax60) and got closer than this.

[stillshaded]

Here's the comparison's I did. I only remember which one is which on one of these.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LAdHK6 ... sp=sharing, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S18vYN ... sp=sharing, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wR-54Z ... sp=sharing

[j wazza]

who can tell which is software or analog?

https://bezmusic.bandcamp.com/album/blind-test

i dont think it needs science, you can hear the difference

err prolly one of the worst blind tests ever. One is stereo, one is mono... guess we know which one is the soft synth.

Edit: also I've done this type of thing with Diva and a synth it doesn't even emulate (ax60) and got closer than this.

forgot about stereo/mono, but one of these is serum so not analog modelled, im sure diva would sound closer, i wasnt trying to make them the exact same but apparently some guy couldnt tell any difference, i agree that theyre not that close

[rh100]

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The bottom line is that IK Multimedia has produced software that has a switch which allows the user to go back and forth between the way in which software is usually written and an approximation of actual hardware that distinguishes between left and right channels. It’s been available for over two years.

They were by no means the first to do this…

Thinking about more formal approaches, a scheme developed from a proposal by Michael Gerzon (Ambisonics, etc.) is applied by the Waves PS22 plug-ins.

See US Patent US5671287A:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5671287A/en (https://patents.google.com/patent/US5671287A/en)

The PS22 manual is also worth reading.

(N.B. I don’t ever use PS22, just thought of it whilst reading this thread...)

[Uncle E]

did you realise it didnt make sense?

I realized I was being a dick.