Software vs. Analog in 2025 – Has the Balance Shifted?

[_leras]

So what you are saying is that Analog Filters don't matter and digital filters can do things that can't be matched with hardware

You're really determined to label peoplr and try and put words in their mouths, eh?

I use all kinds of processes on all kinds of sounds.

Digital filters can be easily automated, for some kinds of things that's very helpful.

And I don't think anyone said anything like all digital filters are bad. I think people have just, accurately, stated and shown examples of tonal qualities software doesn't quite do yet.

[stoopicus]

The first 100 pages! Nicely done _leras. Also well put. I don’t fully agree with your last sentence but it’s completely accurate to say when *trying* to model an analog filter, there will be gaps to an exact representation.

Whether or not those are really meaningful is open for debate though.

[Papuzzo]

So what you are saying is that Analog Filters don't matter and digital filters can do things that can't be matched with hardware

You're really determined to label peoplr and try and put words in their mouths, eh?

I use all kinds of processes on all kinds of sounds.

Digital filters can be easily automated, for some kinds of things that's very helpful.

And I don't think anyone said anything like all digital filters are bad. I think people have just, accurately, stated and shown examples of tonal qualities software doesn't quite do yet.

Well, there is a tendency of people to say their analog equipment is better, meaning superior, to all digital hardware and software. There are purist analog snobs out there. And its not only in instruments, but with effects too. And amp sims. Hell there are people who still swear by vinyl instead of digital. We are told our music will be inferior if we use digital and ITB solutions and it is just not true.

[seafire]

Analogue sounds better than analog

[whyterabbyt]

Well, there is a tendency of people to say their preferred equipment is better, meaning superior, to all other hardware and software. And its not only in instruments, but with effects too. And amp sims.
We are told our music will be inferior if we use other gear and it is just not true.

ftfy

[whassup]

Analogue sounds better than analog

Because it's more British or because it's more vintage?

Excuse the stupid question. I am German and not THAT vintage yet...

[dellboy]

Why does digital even want to copy analogue?

Does it suffer from an inferiority complex? In the future digital human clones will lie on the psychiatrist couch and complain how unfair life is. Why do carbon based life forms think they are superior?

[seafire]

Analogue sounds better than analog

Because it's more British or because it's more vintage?

Excuse the stupid question. I am German and not THAT vintage yet...

Because it has more vowels

[whassup]

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[whassup]

Analogue sounds better than analog

Because it's more British or because it's more vintage?

Excuse the stupid question. I am German and not THAT vintage yet...

Because it has more vowels

I had that suspicion that I missed the obvious!

[vurt]

vowel count is important, just ask the idealogical minded.

[stoopicus]

Analogue sounds better than analog

Because it's more British or because it's more vintage?

Excuse the stupid question. I am German and not THAT vintage yet...

Because it has more vowels

I also prefer ROMpleurs over that Alesis shite

[vurt]

will the balance shift to the thread with the poll?
should we have a poll to see what we think about that?
ad infinitum.

[dellboy]

I have to admit that I am baffled by the question as to whether digital can ever equal analogue? One is electrical voltage, the other is digital, what do they have in common? It makes much more sense if we compare like to like, as in, does a behringer analog thingy copy the real thing exactly? Both are analog voltage. Is an electric car the same as an ICE car? They both get you from A to B but the means of engine propulsion is completely different. I guess people like to compare.

[vurt]

you can't power a car with frozen water, silly man.