[pd-ot] electric circuits in software

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Apr 25, 2006, at 6:42 PM, Chris McCormick wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:25:26AM +0200, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 24, 2006, at 6:50 PM, hard off wrote:
>>
>>> how hard is to model electric circuits by software?
>>>
>>> what is so inherant in analogue and even digital hardware that makes
>>> the sound hard to recreate by software?
>>
>> Its not really that hard to model analogue sound in digital.  But
>> there is a cult of analog sound which believes that it is.  I mean,
>> you could measure the difference between the real analog and a high
>> quality digital recreation, but you couldn't hear it.
>
> Do you have empirical data to back up this statement? Has neuroscience
> really progressed to the point that we can claim absolutely that the
> human brain is incapable of the task of high frequency signal  
> analysis?

Neuroscience probably has not gotten to that point, but I don't know  
that much about neuroscience.  But I do know enough about science to  
tell you that humans cannot tell the difference between such things  
in double-blind tests.  So you don't need to know anything about  
neuroscience to make a useful judgement about this.

In a carefully controlled environment, with very nice equipment,  
something like 99.5% of people cannot tell the difference between  
things like tube and transistor amps, digital or analog audio, or  
electronic circuits or digital recreations.  Try it yourself sometime.

Double-blind is the key.  Humans are extremely sensitive to nuances  
that we give off.  So to do it right, both the listener and the  
controller of the experiment cannot know about which source is which.

.hc

>> component and how that heat will affect the circuit.  There is
>> simpler software which you can use for small circuits for free.  Its
>> called Eagle.
>
> Also, `apt-cache search spice`.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Chris.
>
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