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Re: [elektron] Digest Number 129

2000-06-23 by shifty@gweep.net

> > P.S. Sidtation is analogue. Anologue synths give the purist sound over
> > digital that's for sure mate!
> > 
> Sorry to dissapoint you, but the SID chip is a digital synthesizer, with
> an analogue filter...
> It's only virtually analogue.

Sure it's digital, but the SID output frequency rate is in the Megahertz
range, something no va/digital synth can even come close to.  Many synths
can accumulate phases that quickly, but they employ digital filters to
reduce the output frequency to 44.1KHz.

And even though people will tell you you can't hear frequencies so
high, and the sampling theorems/dsp algorithms are sound, just try sampling
a 20KHz sine wave at 44.1KHz, and check out the oscillating amplitude.

-N

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