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I was just curious since comparing the sound of an older Akai S2000 sampler against the sound of a newer S5000 sampler. Although both are 16-bit samplers, the older model sounds "grittier" when you pitch samples down or resample to a lower bandwidth. The EDP sounds gritty, too, when you shift into halfspeed. As I understood that article it was saying that during the D-A conversion the oversampling process was the interpolation of in-between samples into the signal to smooth the waveform out. Just trying to figure out what makes that sound sound the way it does. If you say it's the anti-aliasing filters that matter, then I believe you. Thanks for the info. -J ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Flint" <kflint@loopers-delight.com> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 11:00 PM Subject: Re: Fw: EDP Oversampling > I really don't see how oversampling would matter to you at all. It is a > technique used in designing D/A convertors to make the anti-aliasing filter > requirements easier to implement. (as the link you gave explains). It > doesn't mean anything to the user. It doesn't even mean much to an engineer > designing with a given D/A convertor part since the filters are usually > integrated. > > The anti-alias filter characteristics are the important thing to care > about. Oversampling doesn't guarantee that the anti-alias filter is good or > bad, and if oversampling is not used you can still get equally good audio > results with higher order filters. It really doesn't tell you anything by > itself. > > Companies list oversampling in audio specs because it sounds good to most > people who are clueless as to what it means, but really it's just bullshit. > > kim > > At 02:29 PM 6/23/2004, Jesse Ray Lucas wrote: > >Curious. All the Akai and Yamaha samplers mention oversampling in their > >specs, and those are contemporaries of the EDP hardware. > > > >For more info see: http://www.earlevel.com/Digital%20Audio/Oversampling.html > > > >-J > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Kim Flint | Looper's Delight > kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com >