Notes, keys, and questions.


I am not a trained musician. I cannot tell an A-Minor from a doe is a female deer. I hear loudness, instruments, harmonies....musical generalities translated into vague verbal terms. No issue with it other than a curiosity into how others, especially trained musicians who read notes like I read books, "hear" music. For instance. "My system handles B-Major much better than D-Minor." Does a trained musician translate what they hear into defined notes and keys? Whereas the majority translate it into words shaped by experience and/or general industry assumptions. Or is that even a reasonable assertion? 
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For instance. "My system handles B-Major much better than D-Minor."


Do you know how hard it is to come up with something that gets ZERO Goolag hits? That is some "for instance"! No one ever, ever said anything even remotely like this. 

For the very simple reason that what key the music is in is of a completely different order than what instrument is playing the music, regardless of key. It is the challenges of as frogman said, faithfully reproducing the sounds of the individual instruments in all their timbral and dynamic complexity that our systems do poor or well. If your system faithfully sounds like a real live guitar then it will faithfully sound like a real live guitar regardless of what key is being played. 

And yes, I grew up being taught to play piano and accordion in grade school, and played french horn all through jr high and high school. Along the way learned to play trumpet, and even a little sax. Later on learned harmonica. The main benefit being what frogman said, a lot of first hand experience with the way real musical instruments really sound. He describes it very well indeed.