On 23 November 2015 at 17:08, jonetsu@xxxxxxxxxxxx <jonetsu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 17:00:47 +0000 > Will Godfrey <willgodfrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:58:09 -0500 >> "jonetsu@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <jonetsu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > There's one thing clear though. If you have a sine wave with say 16 >> > sampling points, much of the curves will be lost. If this is saved >> > to a file and the file is resampled with 128 sampling points, it >> > will not add the curves. The original is gone, the resampling does >> > not know about the original source, it cannot and it will not make >> > it up. >> >> Although it seems counter-intuitive that actually is quite wrong! > > Hmmmm. Not sure about intuition. A sine wave with 16 sampled points > will end up like a linked list of edges. Saving that to file and > resampling at 128 will only add points to the straight lines. It will > not create curves as per the original. It cannot. How would it know it > was a sine wave and not a guitar tone when it had to process basically > what was a robotic tone ? Interpolation?! -- Neil C Smith Artist : Technologist : Adviser http://neilcsmith.net Praxis LIVE - hybrid visual IDE for creative coding - www.praxislive.org Digital Prisoners - interactive spaces and projections - www.digitalprisoners.co.uk _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
