Posted By
Csabo
on 2024-10-21
19:50:26
|  Re: Sample Playback - any tips and tricks?
The quality of the playback depends on 2 things: speed (or sampling rate) and resolution (number of bits).
A few rules of thumb: Speed is more important than resolution. The higher the speed, the more memory the samples take and therefore the less audio you will be able to play back. For resolution, 4 bits is good enough: going higher than does improve quality, but not as much as increasing the sample rate. Finally, the louder the better - softer audio tends to be more noisy.
Couple of things you might find interesting:
- If you open Csabo's Wave Converter, you can just drop any 8 bit sample in it and get a working program out.
- The hidden part of 2020 By The Numbers has 27.7 Khz playback with 42 distinct values - near the best possible quality, but obviously it's very short.
- A.M.C Gotham: pretty standard, but I did a little write up with (hopefully) all the details one needs. This one is nearly 2 minutes long (with obviously a lot of repetition). |
