[LAU] Mono tracks to mono or stereo bus ? And sampling rate

[Neil C Smith]

On 23 November 2015 at 17:08, jonetsu at teksavvy.com <jonetsu at teksavvy.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 17:00:47 +0000
> Will Godfrey <willgodfrey at musically.me.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:58:09 -0500
>> "jonetsu at teksavvy.com" <jonetsu at teksavvy.com> wrote:
>>
>> > There's one thing clear though.  If you have a sine wave with say 16
>> > sampling points, much of the curves will be lost.  If this is saved
>> > to a file and the file is resampled with 128 sampling points, it
>> > will not add the curves. The original is gone, the resampling does
>> > not know about the original source, it cannot and it will not make
>> > it up.
>>
>> Although it seems counter-intuitive that actually is quite wrong!
>
> Hmmmm. Not sure about intuition.  A sine wave with 16 sampled points
> will end up like a linked list of edges.  Saving that to file and
> resampling at 128 will only add points to the straight lines.  It will
> not create curves as per the original.  It cannot.  How would it know it
> was a sine wave and not a guitar tone when it had to process basically
> what was a robotic tone ?

Interpolation?!

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