[linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] jack_convolve-0.0.10, libconvolve-0.0.3 released

fons adriaensen fons.adriaensen at skynet.be
Mon Jun 27 12:24:38 EDT 2005


On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 04:33:13PM +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote:

> > This seems like a sensible idea, but one could wonder why in that case
> > the sample frequency needs to be 96 kHz (*). 
> 
> Well, the argument i often heard and which IMHO does make sense is that
> when heavy processing is used the higher samplerate keeps many artefacts
> out of the audible range for a longer time than with 48khz for example.

Yes, the desire to keep some algorithms simple is one good reason to use
96 kHz. I do it as well in Aeolus, where parts of some of the wavetables are
computed at 2, 3 or 4 the output sample rate, to allow linear interpolation
at run time.

-- 
FA



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