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Old 29th July 2010   #18
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Originally Posted by MattiaS View Post
If you saw in other way.... if you draw a line with a pen... it's gonna be a line... continuous..... BUT if you use a Sacanner to play with that line in Photoshop, well... looks like a line in the computer... but if you do a zoom in... the line is just a number of pixels.... just littlel squares... you can do a curve with the digital line.... but if you zoom in that line It's gonna be the same squares in other order.... but if you draw a curve with a pen... it's gonna be continuous...
You don't get to "hear" that "pixelation" though.
AFAIK - The waveforms are basically reconstructed at the D/A and during plugin processes.
So a sampled sinewave at 20k doesn't turn into a square/pulse wave by the time it gets to your speakers.

http://www.lavryengineering.com/docu...ing_Theory.pdf
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