Is math useful to you in music production?

DZA · Post by **DZA** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:02 pm

bennyc wrote:Americans are allowed to say math, the british arent....

sigbowls · Post by **sigbowls** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:12 pm

The_Dza88 wrote:
bennyc wrote:Americans are allowed to say math, the british arent....

no its americans are fat

xparameterx · Post by **xparameterx** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:40 pm

Considering most of us use DAW's, our music is literally all a string of 1's and 0's at least, let alone breaking things down into regions, quantization, tempo's, swing's, etc. So yes, I use math quite often

HAACK · Post by **HAACK** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:29 pm

No math haha I've had enough of that already from school, at least now I won't have to take it anymore.

lowpass · Post by **lowpass** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:44 pm

-as mentioned figuring out harmonics (for eq purposes)
-song structure (try not to but im too scientifically orientated sigh)

3za · Post by **3za** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:43 pm

yeah i use loads of maths. i got one of these bad boyz;

http://www.synthmuseum.com/casio/casvltone01.html

best of both world music and maths

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:52 pm

TeReKeTe wrote:absolutely-- to quickly figure out rhythm calculations, delay timings, filter settings to match up w/ pitch & frequency (have it start at the root note and open up @ the octave, etc)...

and then, you know, writing in 8 and 16 bar phrases.

music is based in math, with root=4 and root-10; sorry y'all, that's an inarguable fact.

yep summed it up for me

futures_untold · Post by **futures_untold** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:13 pm

Deadly Habit wrote:
TeReKeTe wrote:absolutely-- to quickly figure out rhythm calculations, delay timings, filter settings to match up w/ pitch & frequency (have it start at the root note and open up @ the octave, etc)...

and then, you know, writing in 8 and 16 bar phrases.

music is based in math, with root=4 and root-10; sorry y'all, that's an inarguable fact.
yep summed it up for me

Pun intended?

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:17 pm

futures_untold wrote:
Deadly Habit wrote:
TeReKeTe wrote:absolutely-- to quickly figure out rhythm calculations, delay timings, filter settings to match up w/ pitch & frequency (have it start at the root note and open up @ the octave, etc)...

and then, you know, writing in 8 and 16 bar phrases.

music is based in math, with root=4 and root-10; sorry y'all, that's an inarguable fact.
yep summed it up for me
Pun intended?

divide and conquer, then multiply

POND LIFE · Post by **POND LIFE** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:01 am

oh if that counts as 'using maths' then yeah i do that shit, thats standard.
i thought they meant hard maths.

ylem · Post by **ylem** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:25 am

In terms of playing around with musical patterns and finding a balance, maths is at the core of music. Which is really the only extent to which I use maths in music.....But as soon as music lacks that pattern based structure it sooner becomes noise.

I remember back in my metal days sitting down and analysing beat patterns of Meshuggah

wondering wtf was with their syncopated rhythms and how the fuck they came up with their shit..........

Mathcore FTW!

glottis5 · Post by **glottis5** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 5:42 am

I've used a calculator while making music a few times

bennyc · Post by **bennyc** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:09 pm

The "yup" is catching up from about 12 behind the "no's". Woo!

tavravlavish · Post by **tavravlavish** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 6:40 pm

i can count to 4 :studio:

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