RE: [microsound] Max/MSP sound quality

[Christopher Sorg <csorg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I believe that the origin of most of the "bad sound" complaints is in the
> patch programming, specifically a lack of understanding of
> aliasing.  MSP is lean and assumes nothing; therefore if you don't have a
solid
> understanding of basic DSP theory it's easy to introduce contaminating
noise due to
> frequency foldback. for instance, pitching a sample up in MSP can
> result in aliasing.  (professional samplers use quartic interpolation to
> minimize the unwanted frequencies.)  using a phasor~ to generate a
sawtooth
> wave results in aliasing, as does using a phasor~ -> >~ 0.5 to generate a
square wave.
> ...
> Ben

Thanks, this is helpful to know and remember.

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     Christopher Sorg
   Multimedia Artist/Instructor
 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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