>> a) any non-linearity introduces harmonics, some non-linearities >> > introduce an infinite amount of harmonics, which will cause foldover >> > distortion. the large the sampling-rate, the lower the foldover. > Although this is mostly true, it's difficult to believe it matters in > a practical audio application. If it does, in most of the cases that > are not deliberately using a highly nonlinear transfer, adding one > additional bit of depth will get you the same noise/distortion benefit > as doubling the sampling rate. Once you're using 32 bit floats, > you're already 160dB down... If you need more, I'd love to know what > you're doing, and I'm not being sarcastic! my main use-cases for high sampling rates are coupled/feedback fm/pm and stochastic synthesis (gendy). though today, i just wanted to mix some 192khz recordings and some people claimed that 48k is enough for everyone. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
