Artillery
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LogicDeLuxe said:
That I find strange. Well, there is a difference between minor and major, but the rest is just a matter of transposing, isn't it? So what happens if you just transpose songs to another key? It isn't hard to do with MIDI files, so I guess you already tried this.
Ummm, yes I did some transposing, and transposing into a different key does change the character of the audio track. Quite significantly. Before the equal tempering was introduced (19. century), the differences between keys were more clearly marked. Why is that? I wish I knew myself.
Another thing related to this are PAL movies (I don't know if you are used to watch them), which usually have a 4% speedup resulting in about one semitone higher audio. Does this also have such a huge impact? I know, it is noticeable, but I never found it distracting when the audio is just pitched by 4%. I find it much more annoying when the sound is processed without pitching, which is done in some television shows. They never got this right without artifacts.
Well, it does have an impact, as you said, it does change the pitch (although I never knew about this phenomenon before), since I didn't pay attention to this, it never distracted me (considering how much I used PAL movies, which was occasionaly). So it's important mostly in music.
I won't go into details, since that would be off-topic (we were supposed to talk about Doom anyway), but oddly enough, although many people's tastes in keys vary, I found that they correlate to some extent as well (I asked people about this). For instance, majority of the people I talked to agree that C major sounds dull (and a minor is the parallel of C major), and I've heard it repeated many times, OTOH I often found that the keys like d minor and c# minor were quite popular, and I too, dig them quite a lot.
There seems to be a general agreement as to the characters of many keys eg. C major- plain, ordinary sounding, b minor- sad, solemn (the ending of each DOOM II episode song) G major- very bright and happy, E-flat major- mellow and romantic, c minor-dark sinister, creepy or stormy (Beethoven's 5th, Doom II map03) etc. But noone seems to have a clear answer as to why that is.
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