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- From: oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
- Subject: Re: Criti!
- Date: 22 Dec 92 21:00:33 GMT
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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- In-reply-to: sl8nl@cc.usu.edu's message of 21 Dec 92 22:43:29 MDT
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- In article <1992Dec21.224330.62215@cc.usu.edu> sl8nl@cc.usu.edu writes:
-
- >I know what you're referring to, but consider this. Take for instance a bass
- >drum sample and plot it to the screen. You'll see that it probably resembles,
- >depending on where it came from, a sine wave. Realizing that waveforms are
- >short and samples are long, is the sample a wave form...or a sample?
-
- That's not exactly true. Even if you would define a waveform as the one cycle
- of a repeating wave, you can have hours long waveforms, and they would not
- repeat themselves.
- Any sound can be represented mathematically, some (or in fact most) will just
- be too complex to have any use for a mathematical definition, as you can save
- space even by digitizing it in 100kHz 32 bit...
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