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When an analog audio signal is recorded into a digital audio workstation, it has to be converted into digital bits—a binary sequence of zeros and ones. This is done by the A/D converter in the audio interface. The incoming analog signal is sampled at precise and regular intervals, tens of thousands of times per second. This is known as the sample rate.
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Audio 4.1
Audio example—Synth and Drums recorded at 44.1 kHz (M4A 4892 kb)
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Audio example—Synth and Drums recorded at 96 kHz (M4A 9497 kb)
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Audio example—Drums at 0 bBFS recorded at 16bit (44.1 kHz) (M4A 3341 kb)
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Audio example—Drums at 0 bBFS recorded at 24bit (44.1 kHz) (M4A 3354 kb)
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Audio example—Drums buffer underrun errors—glitches and dropouts (M4A 4756 kb)
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Audio example—Percussion WAV 44.1 kHz 16bit (M4A 3213 kb)
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Audio example—Percussion MP3 96 kbps (M4A 2338 kb)
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Duggal, S. (2024). Digital. In: Record, Mix and Master. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40067-4_4
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