Discuss: what is a “true” feature?
True stereo, true active design, true legato, true [insert feature] – it’s in a good 10% of the music and audio industry product announcements and descriptions in the past decade and a half!
But what does it mean and how did our industry start using it?
Okay, true legato means that the legato transitions between two notes in a sample library were recorded rather than being simulated with synthesis parameters. But other than that, we’re quite serious!
Answers are welcome.
16 January 2013
Last Updated on 16 January 2013
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“True stereo” means the signal is not summed to mono before processing. For a reverb, that’s the difference between hearing L/R separation in a stereo send or not.
Got that – discrete stereo – but I’m raising the larger question. “True” is a marketing word whose meaning usually escapes me.
What’s…I dunno, a true cardioid pattern? True implies false, in other words.
Inquiring minds want to know.