x: Sounds are not “analog” or “digital.”
x2: Analog envelope generators do not cause synths to sound “more analog”.
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Addendum:
If you happen to like the way thing A works more than you like the way thing B works, that does not make thing A objectively better. It is the opposite of that, it’s subjective.
Likewise if thing A has features that thing B doesn’t, and thing B has features that thing A doesn’t, and you like the features of thing A and wish they were in B, that still doesn’t make thing A objectively better.
Let’s review:
| harder | objective | Mohs, Vickers, or Brinell hardness scale |
| better | subjective | no applicable unit of measurement |
| faster | objective | (any measureable unit) per time unit, e.g. meters per second, gallons per hour, frames per second; OR the time to complete a standardized action (e.g. booting into Windows) |
| stronger | objective | maximum load that can be lifted (kg, lb, etc), material breaking strain (MPa/psi), etc. |