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Arkitekt Arkitekt is a male
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I notice a lot of topics abotu samples and in those topics inevitably comes up the quality of said samples.

Other than the obvious quality are there ways to improve that quality??

bitrate? mastering? things of that nature ??

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anti-aliasing and then eq-ing.. maybe you can bring them up a bit.

but if theyre 8-bit I delete them instantly

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anti-aliasing and then eq-ing.. maybe you can bring them up a bit.

but if theyre 8-bit I delete them instantly



anti aliasing??? could you go a little more in depth on that one ??

and is there a way to disply the bitrate when you hover over the sample name on a windows pc?

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anti aliasing, interpolation could be found in Sound Forge 8.0 and previous versions

don't know about viewng the quality in windows.. browsing samples through Sound Forge gives detailed information on everything about the sample

get SF!

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15-08-2005 13:38 Homepage of cynik
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DEPENDS HOW GOOD YOU ARE WITH A SAMPLER.....yknow adjusting the fadi in and out points can help, as can delay or a little reverb, it depends how you place something in a mix....you can sometimes disguise the roughness of a sample if youve got other sounds in the same frequency range......
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dithering helps improve samples. it gets rid of anti-alisasing.

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dithering helps improve samples. it gets rid of anti-alisasing.


uhh what do you mean get rid of??? aliasing is what you want to remove and is done with anti-aliasing. dithering is a technique used when downsampling (eg. for 92Khz to 44Khz)

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All very good advice thanks a bunch

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dithering helps improve samples. it gets rid of anti-alisasing.


uhh what do you mean get rid of??? aliasing is what you want to remove and is done with anti-aliasing. dithering is a technique used when downsampling (eg. for 92Khz to 44Khz)


it add's noise which smooth out some of the probelm's that aliasing does. which is make the pitch change. but i swear to god, i don't know the exact details, but for downsampling, it helps.

i am not 100%, but it works for already low bit samples by improve there quality by taking the sharp sound that can get from signal degraddtion.

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I wouldn't mess with that. IMO it's always better to properly filter out certain frequencies you find unnecessary

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waves mastering

TheChronic explains all here. Pleased

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Dithering is adding a small amount of noise to the digital signal when downsampling from a higher number of bits to a lower number of bits. This helps averaging out rounding errors, so you actually get a more accurate 16-bit signal out of a 24-bit source. You can really gain a couple of bits in a 16-bit signal using this technique even though this might sound impossible. I can explain it in detail if you are interested in how it works.


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