Digital synthesizers don't reach for samples of sounds on some storage device like a hard drive to create the noise they make. They literally "synthesize" the desired notes from software envelopes in the immediacy of now. This is different than generating desired musical tones from quivering metal strings that get stretched to just the right tension in order to reproduce an exact likeness of the sought-for note. The sound gotten from a synthesizer depends on the skills and talents of the software programmer, and wot algorithms he can cook up on that self-same day.
I don't have the background to describe how a synthesizer works as opposed to how a grand piano produces a desired sound. The first digital synthesizer I bought was bought on impulse as a result of having my ego massaged by a professional musician who worked at the music store part time, because all he needed to make a living was to run up with a few fools like me and sell them over-priced musical instruments for a generous commission.
Granted, there may not be as many people around who are as big a fool as I am is, or at least enough of them around in order to make an easy living, simply because a fool and his money are soon parted. The reason snake oil salesmen don't always get rich as Midas is that it's probably rare to run into enough fools that's temporarily got money to be duped out of.
I subscribed to an e-mail discussion group whose topic was the exact same ESQ-1 synthesizer I bought. They were very helpful, or tried to be, but I learned something I hadn't understood until it was sot before me during the time I participated in this group. What I learned was what I wrote above. The noise a synthesizer generates is not taken from a sample. There's no storage place for existent sounds. The sounds are generated from mathematical algorithms on the spot. I think algorithms are sort of like mathematical formulas, but I'm not sure.
This came up in a conversation recently, and it made me wonder how the contents of an experiential database would be retrieved. Do they get generated on the spot by demand? Mentioning any kind of database sends my thoughts toward an article of systems of expertise published by the Scientific American online magazine. If you're wondering if its the same article I've provided a link for previously, it is. I find this article very useful to make certain points. Usually, that a system of expertise like a chessmaster or a medical doctor is used to apperceive a correct diagnosis. These kinds of systems are self-installed, not self-generated.
Many of the old religions and philosophies are basically saying, it takes two to tango. That happens at every level of being. You wanna fix something that appears broke, then you gotta look to see what you ignored in the shadow world. That's what pleased me about realizing the scope of the emotional trauma that Leos sometime experience. Leos are prone to get eaten by their own lion-ness. They wanna exhibit their great leadership abilities whether there's a need for leadership or not, just to boss people around. Not that many people will take that for long if they can do anything about it. The more I understand about what Leos have to deal with in the emotional realm, the better I understand the negative aspects of Aquarius, their opposite sign. It takes two to tango.
The negatives of both Leo and Aquarius exhibit theyselves in opposite ways. Why would they not? Leos let their emotions consume their reason, and Aquarius lets their reason consume their emotional compassion in the sa-me way. Aquarians clean up the mess of the Leo, and Leos lead Aquarius out of their complete dispassion. You can't have One without the other.
Astrology is a system for thinking about things that I placed in my psyche on purpose to dealing with as certain aspect of being human in the here and now. My remembering vision, and everything I've portrayed it to be, was a gift I didn't earn through systematic study. It was given to me, and it appears to me presently, that my real religion is centered around my effort to reach for the gift I was given as a way of comprehending real time, and not the system of expertise I developed to make myself feel important.
I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
