On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:38:02 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:



However, I would point you to some of the recent CGI work in which you
can't tell the CGI from the real world and I have an archine of
fantasy images that are composites that I know for a fact you wouldn't
be able to tell if they were doctored or not.

Here's an analogous situation for you.

The other day, I was in here pining for a real pipe organ. One of the
ranking a**holes here, guess who, suggested I should just get myself the
new Hammond B3 keyboard imitation with some sort of electronic gimmick
because it could *simulate* a pipe organ. (I am not referring to Eisboch
here, in case some snark wants to start something).

Now, my father had a real B3 with a Leslie speaker and I loved it and
its sound. But it isn't a pipe organ and even with the new "electronic
device," it doesn't sound like a pipe organ to me. And the a**hole who
made the suggestion doesn't know, wouldn't care, and basically is "ne
culturny," as my grandfather would say.

I know what a real pipe organ sounds like, and I know there isn't a way
to synthesize its sound electronically, no matter how you "sample" it. I
can tell the difference between "real" music produced by real
instruments and electronic music produced by computers. In fact, some
months ago I got to meet one of my favorite young singers, I am sure you
have heard of her, and I was really ecstatic over her album and told her
so, "except" for one track. Which one, she asked. "The one with the
electronic drum," I said. She knew exactly what I meant and winked at me.

You may be a fan of CGI and "photoshopping." I am not. I don't like
computer generated "electronic" music, either. To each his own.

By the way, is this live or...???

http://tinyurl.com/2mh74p


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