Soundcloud... Trippy or Not?
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- KVRist
- 257 posts since 9 May, 2012 from USA
Hey guys, as some of you already know, I'm woking on a track at the moment. When I upload it to soundcloud, the kicks in the intro have little waves on top of them. When I look at most of the pro's waves, they are straight and don't have any. Is it the panning?
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- KVRAF
- 2930 posts since 29 May, 2009 from New Zealand
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- KVRAF
- 1595 posts since 17 Nov, 2007 from Seattle, WA
I suspect the OP knows that.
But soundcloud dumps down the quality of your upload. Something to be aware of.
Additionally, it approximates the waveform. And the visual approximation changes drastically depending on what visual resolution it's rendered as. In other words, it's meaningless, even though we can glean information from the visual representation. If it's accurate, that is. Which it's not. Since it can't be controlled, can't be accurately understood, and doesn't affect the audio, it's worth ignoring.
My theory, however, on the little waves is that it's how the video interpolates the semi-consistent pattern of a sine wave whose graphed frequency cannot fit in the rendered resolution... er.. its hard to explain what I'm thinking.
But like if you have a graphing calculator, and you tell it to display the Sine function, and then zoom out along the X axis such that the periods get shorter and shorter, it'll reach a point where the grainy visuals cannot accurately render the ptatern anymore, but it does make a consistent 'rounding' of what the y value is per visible x coordinate.
This video phenomenon is also visible in digital oscilloscopes.
...Okay I think that's enough words on this. It's really nothing.
But soundcloud dumps down the quality of your upload. Something to be aware of.
Additionally, it approximates the waveform. And the visual approximation changes drastically depending on what visual resolution it's rendered as. In other words, it's meaningless, even though we can glean information from the visual representation. If it's accurate, that is. Which it's not. Since it can't be controlled, can't be accurately understood, and doesn't affect the audio, it's worth ignoring.
My theory, however, on the little waves is that it's how the video interpolates the semi-consistent pattern of a sine wave whose graphed frequency cannot fit in the rendered resolution... er.. its hard to explain what I'm thinking.
But like if you have a graphing calculator, and you tell it to display the Sine function, and then zoom out along the X axis such that the periods get shorter and shorter, it'll reach a point where the grainy visuals cannot accurately render the ptatern anymore, but it does make a consistent 'rounding' of what the y value is per visible x coordinate.
This video phenomenon is also visible in digital oscilloscopes.
...Okay I think that's enough words on this. It's really nothing.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 257 posts since 9 May, 2012 from USA
Thanks a lot MOK, I guess it's because it zoomed out to that point, so I guess that's why it's showing the waves, but yea, I'm more concerned about my sound not my waves 