Here's a different way of looking at it: some people like the math in music because they like the math as a thing of beauty in itself, and not as a means to an end of sounding professional.ZenPunkHippy wrote:To put it another way, a budding (or struggling) producer trying to achieve "that sound" is most likely not getting there through inexperience. They will find plenty of "excuses" like the use of maths, custom boxes etc. as being a reason that the sound is not "like the pro's" ... I know I certainly used to worry about this kind of stuff, but once I let go of it ... well, things are really progressing now and I find that these effects just happen anyway as a side effect of synth / effect / midi programming in general.
Lots of professional musicians are big math heads (Mozart, Anthony Braxton, Aphex Twin, Herbie Hancock, Xenakis, I could go on for quite some time for sure, these just were people that came to me off the top of my head). That love of math is not necessarily related to why they're good musicians, but it's not terribly uncommon for musicians to be closet math fiends.