Sound files are digital audio data just like the one recorded on audio CD.
There are numbers of sound attributes, file formats, and compression methods available for sound files.

This section describes the overview on the sound files supported by MySoundStudio.

When the analog audio signal is transmitted to the computer, the computer first measures the level of the signal at a certain interval (this process is called "Sampling"). Sampled level is then divided into smaller parts and converted into the number value in bit such as 8 bit(256 levels) and 16 bits(65,536 levels) , which represents the precision of the sound (this process is called "Quantization").

The number of sampling per second is called Sample Rate, and how many parts the level of input signal is divided into is represented by Bit Depth.

The higher the sample rate, the better the high range of sound. The higher the bit depth, the more dynamic the sound (larger file size).
For the audio CD, the sound data is sampled at 44.1 KHz and 16-bit depth.

MySoundStudio records sound data to a new file at the sample rate and bit depth specified in File - Settings. MySoundStudio also allows you to change the sample rate or bit depth of the existing sound files by using Effect - Attributes.

MySoundStudio supports various sound file formats including the native MySoundStudio format (*.dgs) that supports multiple tracks, WAVE(*.wav) that is the Windows standard sound format, and more.

MySoundStudio also supports a number of compression types for distributing files over Internet or on various multimedia contents. Compression is a useful way to increase the performance by reducing the file size.