Timbre Is More Complicated Than You Think

What is timbre? It's one of those weird things that seems obvious when you think about it intuitively, but is actually impossible to define. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *DISCLAIMER: The drone/rhythmic click FFT example was an exaggerated/oversimplified example to get the point across. It's just not possible to explain everything in detail in a 10 minute video! The more detailed explanation is this: The FFT takes little chunks of sound to analyze and depending on the size of the chunk, either the frequency time scale or rhythm time scale is more accurately rendered. There's more than just two chunk sizes, as my example would suggest, but the moral of the story is: for every bit of frequency accuracy you gain, you lose a bit of rhythm accuracy. You can't get both at the same time. If you wanna go deeper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Fourier_transform - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Support Sounds Good: patreon.com/soundsgoodchannel One-time donation: paypal.me/soundsgoodchannel Insta: instagram.com/soundsgoodchannel Other Sounds Good Videos: Daphne Oram: https://youtu.be/xma3RDqTsjw Just Intonation: https://youtu.be/VHwnSJTefNo Contact: [email protected] Original Music by Sarah Feldman Logo and graphics by samantha-garritano.com // @sultana.bambino Sources: https://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/reprints/ISMRA2016-86.pdf Austin, Kevin. Message to the author by email. 22 November 2020. https://youtu.be/8dOnv5XfX7E http://support.ircam.fr/docs/AudioSculpt/3.0/co/Transients%20Method.html https://youtu.be/OX88W20-EZ4 https://youtube.com/watch?v=A83gc7qnCPI (1) Luce, David A. (1963). "Physical Correlates of Nonpercussive Musical Instrument Tones" (2) Erickson, Robert (1975). Sound Structure in Music. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-02376-5.