So I watched this video a while back, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogwzbrsv8ts, and one of the things Thys mentions (I think it was him) is that he read/heard something once that the listener is unable to focus on the change in timbre if you're also change the pitch by more than one semi-tone. Sorry I didn't write down the specific timestamp. I wrote this down at the time: If you keep an interval at a maximum range of one semitone, the human brain can still focus on the balance of overtones, aka the sound design. If you go a whole tone, you miss the over tone, and you hear the relative pitches, you focus on the melody instead.
Does anyone know if there is some scientific or research basis to this? Am I confusing what he said with something else? Cheers thanks for any response guys. This has been bugging me enough for a few months for me to finally make a post about it.
Submitted June 27, 2017 at 07:47PM by xZel https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/6jwexf/when_changing_timbre_and_pitch_listener_is_unable/?utm_source=ifttt