Jasedee did you not read what i wrote...you sumed up the definition of texture with a word swap, that does not constitute definition! Everything you have expressed shows that this idea of texture is your personal audible preference...
Because texture of sound to me is timbre, which inturn is the quality given to a sound by its overtones: the resonance by which the ear recognizes and identifies a voiced speech sound b : the quality of tone distinctive of a particular singing voice or musical instrument (websters dictionary)
if you take this into consideration even digital mixing can contain this...because...the sound source is where you get your timbre from...the mixing desk does not produce sound on its own...unless you have a grounding problem!!
as for personality...that has more validity when talking about themes and motives...
so please define this texture, which obviously stated can not be achieved by digital mixing alone...
as for my statement above, although misunderstood...i do apologized i didnt mean it in those terms...it was more in reference to one of the only reasons...because of course they are built a bit different...
peace
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