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I see your point and thanks for the clarification Mike. On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 02:01 PM, Mike Richter wrote: > At 11:43 AM 8/28/2003 -0400, Aaron Luis Levinson wrote: > >> Another question which this thread raises is the question of >> re-sampling. >> Perhaps I am using the term incorrectly, but every time I have ever >> re-sampled >> something it was to obtain a different timbral quality. > > That is an altogether different sort of sampling. The sampling here is > to > obtain a digital signal at a chosen sampling rate. The correct unit for > sample rate is sps (samples per second) or ksps (thousand samples per > second). It is sometimes written incorrectly as Hz for Hertz, the unit > which in ancient days was cycles per second. To resample means to take > a > signal which was sampled at one rate and to modify it as though it had > been > sampled at another. For example, in creating a WAV file from an > analogue > source, one might sample at 96 ksps, but to create a CD-DA (Compact > Disc - > Digital Audio) it must be written at 44.1 ksps. Hence the 96000 sps > file > must be resampled to 44100 sps. > > > Mike > [log in to unmask] > http://www.mrichter.com/ > > Sincerely, Aaron