The organ effect

[Contratrombone64]

Here's a quote from another forum I inhabit, (and have done far longer than the time I've wasted here).

I learned a new term today the "organ effect"

The organ effect is the sound quality that occurs when all the ensemble instruments (concert band, in my case) sound, well, like an organ. Human beings may sound as if they are all starting and stopping together in an ensemble, but they are actually not. When human beings play, we usually cannot hear slight differences in timbre and time of attack. However, in digital music, attacks and timbres are exact. These qualities produce the organ effect.

My understanding is that the organ effect can be eliminated, or, at least, great reduced, by digitally staggering attacks and same-instrument timbres ever so slightly. I asked how to do that.

[wljmrbill]

Interesting:but never heard of it before. Be a good project for someone with the talent needed.

[Contratrombone64]

Hey Bill, me either, but it's a sound (no pun intended) theory and makes perfect sense.