What does it feel like when music is delayed by 0.71 seconds?

For ordinary people, they may not care at all. Isn’t it less than a second?

But in one second, a lot of things can actually happen.

The fastest speaker in the world can speak 11 words in one second.

In the history of music, rap with a relatively fast speaking speed can speak several words in 0.71 seconds. For example, God, the former world record holder, spoke 1560 words in 369 seconds, an average of 4.22 words per second.

Later, this record was broken by techn9ne, who spoke an average of 4.68 words per second in "worldwidechoppers".

In other words, 0.71 seconds, in the extreme case, may be 8 words...

Of course, considering that the pronunciation of Chinese is all monosyllable, it is possible to say more words...

Music is actually a precise technology. For music, sometimes a millisecond difference can be a fatal disaster.

If the drum stick stays on the drum head for just one millisecond, the tone may change dramatically.

When pronunciation, if the control of the vocal cords is off by even one millisecond, defects may occur.

Human beings are very magical creatures.

If you ask someone to count for one minute, nine out of ten people will be either much faster or much slower.

But if you ask someone to keep time, nine times out of ten they will be able to accurately stick to the beat.

This is the human sense of rhythm.

Something like a "built-in clock".

It has always existed and seems useless, but it controls human actions, handles human sense of crisis, and responds to human instincts...

Once the rhythm is not accurate, even if there is only a slight flaw, professional musicians can hear it.

Even ordinary people would find it "not nice to hear and a bit confusing".

Music is a precise technology, so humans spend a lot of money to slow down this delay.

But it takes time for sound to travel through the air.

Especially when the two musical instruments are close to 400 meters together, and the size of the musical instrument itself exceeds 20 meters.

The volume exceeds 20 meters in diameter, which means that it itself has a delay of at least 58 milliseconds.

For some PFS games, playing the game in 58 milliseconds is too slow.

In fact, many people have never thought that when playing a behemoth instrument like the Bell and Drum, one needs to deal with problems that no one has ever encountered before.

Of course, for ordinary people, a foldback speaker may be able to solve this problem.

But for Gu Xiaobai, it was not enough.

After all, the monitor is just a fixed microphone.

It's like singing a chorus with someone 20 meters away from you. Both of you will definitely not be able to keep up with the other person's beat, and it will sound weird.

Not to mention, with the nearly 400-meter delay in the middle, this is also the difference between the "Bell and Drum Tower" itself and the "Bell and Drum Tower".

When playing bells and drums, you need to consider more than just these.

Many people have not thought about it. In fact, the propagation force of ropes also has speed.

Force is a kind of mechanical wave, and its transmission speed is limited by the speed of the wave transmitted by the material itself. In other words, it propagates at the speed of sound.

The Qin of One Hundred Bells on the left uses a steel cable. The speed of the longitudinal wave transmitted by the steel cable is 5900 meters per second. The Qin of Thousand Drums on the right uses elastic materials in addition to the steel cable in the firing part.

, which itself also has delays.

Each steel cable has a different length, the mechanical structures they pass through are also different, and the resistance is also different...

Gu Xiaobai turned off the feedback speakers, placed his hands on the keyboard, and gently leaned against the joysticks in various shapes that fit his body.

There was a smile on his face, and he murmured: "I like music, I love the bell, drum, and piano to death..."

The system happily popped out of Gu Xiaobai's pants pocket.

Oh my gosh, Xiaobai said he likes music!

Then, he heard Gu Xiaobai sigh happily: "Because it is a super complex physics problem!"

"I love complex physics problems!"

A super complex question!

So when I untie it, it’s really super cool!

No, our music is not a physical problem!

The system really wants to protest.

It popped up a dialog box protesting Gu Xiaobai's arbitrary characterization of music.

But Gu Xiaobai did not look at it, because at this moment, Gu Xiaobai had already closed his eyes.

At that moment, his consciousness spread at an alarming speed.

It was like an invisible nuclear bomb exploded, and the terrifying shock wave spread like a ball.

A huge ball of light that no one could see but existed only in Gu Xiaobai's consciousness enveloped the bell tower, drum tower, and performance tower.

Covered everyone.

The world is long and the city is busy with traffic.

The sky is vast, and the underground of the city is just as busy as it is on the ground.

The passing subway, the crowded pipes, the flowing water...

And, connecting the bells and drums, there are transmission steel cables buried deep in the ground.

Gu Xiaobai's consciousness focused on the steel cable, and groups of numbers emerged from around Gu Xiaobai.

Steel cable 1, longitudinal wave propagation speed, 5872m/meter.

Steel cable 2, longitudinal wave propagation speed, 5872m/meter.

Steel cable three...

Consciousness spreads along the steel cable, and more data emerges.

The firing device of Thousand Drums Piano is made of elastic nylon, longitudinal wave conduction speed, 2560m/meter.

Elastic nylon two...

When the drumstick is fired, the transverse wave conduction speed is 1527m/s...

Bell No. 1 weighs tons...

Countless data gathered into a river around Gu Xiaobai.

At that moment, Gu Xiaobai felt that what he saw seemed to be the long river of time.

It seems like I have gained insight into the truth of this world.

He loved this feeling so much.

Everything is so orderly and everything is clearly visible, which is really great.

But the best feeling is when you stir it up and break it...

Movement is the foundation of the universe, and dynamic things are the most beautiful!

Gu Xiaobai's left foot suddenly stepped down at a speed of 9 meters per second. The lateral force was transmitted through the short pedal at a speed of 1527m/s, and was connected to the 327-meter-long steel cable, at a speed of 5872m/s.

It was transmitted at a speed of 9 meters per second, and then the speed of 9 meters per second was restored, and it was hit hard on the huge copper bell weighing 1000 tons.

"duang..."

Longitudinal waves, transverse waves, surface Rayleigh waves...

Various waves begin to propagate in the bell body from the location of the strike, and then begin to vibrate the air and produce sound.

The thick bell lip provides a thick fundamental tone, and then the bell wall above provides the upper thirds, and then the upper fifths...

When you step on it, it's not a note, but a perfect triad.

Because its sound-emitting body is not a string, but a huge bell!

This is one of the most complex musical instruments in the world!

After the perfect three chords, the whole bell vibrated, and various different tones interfered with each other. What came out at this time was a hum sound several times deeper...

If triads are like ocean waves on the surface, they are dull currents.

It wraps up everything, overwhelming the mountains and seas, overwhelming the sky and the earth.

In an instant, terrifying sound waves began to spread through the huge bell body, and everything that was originally orderly was instantly broken.

It was like an invisible flood escaping from the bell body.

The sound waves covered indiscriminately began to resonate with all other bell bodies, and then began to vibrate the bell tower, the foundation of the bell tower, and the ground...

Shaking heaven and earth.
To be continued...