On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, hard off wrote:
i just made a synth which makes some really nice tones when i feed it
really high frequencies. (midi notes 150-300) question is, will this
sound the same on all computers, or do different systems handle such
high frequencies differently?
Every change in your soundcard's sampling rate will make a tremendous
difference to how it sounds. Everything that you do with frequencies that
high rely on a moiré effect between the sound and the sampling itself.
Putting all your oscillators in a subpatch with a set downsampling or
upsampling will shield you from some of the variability from soundcard to
soundcard, because 48 kHz and 96 kHz are a power of two away. However, Pd
doesn't allow you to correct the difference between 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz,
because it isn't a power of two; and generally speaking, because 44.1/48
simplifies as 147/160, any resampling between those two frequencies will
be difficult (because it isn't an easy fraction to deal with).
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