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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Paula chip and Amiga audio
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 10:23:42 +0100
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- judas@tomtec.abg.sub.org (Th.Huber) writes:
-
- >Sampling 11kHz with samplerate of 22khz will produce noise at 11khz and 33khz.
- >Although this noise may be seen as an improvement, it`s noise nevertheless.
-
- You think of aliasing. That's why D/A converters have anti-aliasing
- filters to be useful. A 16bit D/A converter used for 22kHz would have
- a <11kHz low-pass filter. Also, for a _bass_ sound the alias signal
- is more in the 15-22kHz range which isn't as audible as noise in the
- 0-7kHz band would be.
-
- >Sampling 8Bit at 44khz doesn`t produce within 22khz, thus you don`t hear any noise.
-
- This is of course not true. You do not get the same aliasing. However,
- you do get quantization noise which starts at low frequencies and has
- a wide spectrum. No filter will help you.
-
- >Unfortunately Amiga`s DMA sometimes skips data when running 4 channels together with
- >a hires-screen.
-
- It skips samples if you try to play at 44kHz with a 15kHz display.
-
- >(.. audiomaster allways switches off screen-DMA , when playng HIFI .. =)
-
- Switching off doesn't really help. You have to use a display mode
- that actually feeds the audio hardware with more data.
-
- Audiomaster switches off the display because it doesn't use DMA
- but the CPU which might be too slow in a chip-memory only system
- if the bitplane-DMA steals cycles.
-
- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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