Yes, comparing arps to dithering is not so far off. But it is still such high-speed "dithering" that it's more like magazine halftone printing ....
Hunh? Maybe if the dots on the paper changed sizes....
Half-toning would be more like silencing a voice on/off, like through a fan, maybe.
Without even the dithering in the printing industry, all your magazines would be composed of bands of 4 solid colours.
Okay, am I the only one having trouble with this comparison?
Dithering is when you place 2 or more dots next to each other, to 'trick' the eye into seeing a third color, right?
Or is there some other kind of dithering you're talking about???
Halftoning, on the other hand, is when you place larger or smaller dots of a single color on a sheet of paper, to make the color look more/less saturated. Even using one color and a background, you can get a -lot- of shades of the color, by varying the dot size.
And I happen to like comic-style 4 color artwork, thank you.
--------- I do understand what you're trying to say, though. Arps (properly called apeggios, for those who don't know) are an attempt to mimic a chord sound in one channel- but there is an inherent flaw in that. The human ear can hear up to about 41KHz; anything that changes faster than that most people won't be able to hear.
And anything slower, they will hear as two distinct tones (and not the combined frequencies of a chord). Maybe if you mixed the frequencies together and went for the combination, it might work. To me, they just sound like someone trying too hard to play something simple .
(Kinda like when they do all the fancy trills and stuff on american idol; the song wasn't originally written with all that stuff, so quit putting it in - it only ruins the song! Sing what's written, and Quit Showing Off. Or can't you hold a single note in tune that long???)
