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Originally Posted by Kiwiburger Maybe everyone has thought about it this way before. If so - were are the plugins? |
They realised that there is a heck of a lot more to analog sound than just component tolerances... For example, the reason why most people use analog summing is for greater depth and clarity, not to overcome "boring digital"... "Boring digital" provoked a whole horde of analog distortion plugins and an obsession for valve gear. If you want something to overcome "boring digital" there is a list of plugins longer than my arm...
The greater depth and clarity of analog is from design application, not component tolerences. If it were because of component tolerences your mackie desk would be the greatest desk on the planet. If I walked into a studio and the SSL experienced that same behaviour that your mackie did I would consider it broken.
Analog doesn't sound better because of "randomness" or because it is "messed up". It sounds better because it is continuous... How many different degrees of panning exist in a Daw? 100 each side of centre... How many exist on an analog desk? Quite possibly an infinate amount. It is continously variable via the pan knob. Same with the volume fader, or eq gain or frequency or Q controls. It is not randomness that digital is lacking it is continuity. A continuity which is removed from the first stage of analog to digital conversion. While on paper or even in application this lack of continuity might not be unbearable it is still a long way off analog.
If you are going to make to make this plug in you better add a "hand matched" option. Even though most resistors are manufactured with 1%, 2%, 5% tolerances, most manufacturers hand-match critical components to within .001 or .0001. Im not sure a DAW could even handle that kind of "randomness" since most of them handle dynamic range in 0.1dB steps I believe.