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Re: [fluid-dev] Purpose of dither?
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Z F |
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Re: [fluid-dev] Purpose of dither? |
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Wed, 9 May 2007 09:18:09 -0700 (PDT) |
>
> I appreciate the discussion on the dithering additions made by
> Mihail.
> I'm no DSP expert unfortunately, so its nice to have others around
> who
> know more than me and are interested in FluidSynth. I can
> conceptually
> understand how converting from a higher bit width to a lower could
> introduce distortions and how these distortions could contain
> periodic
> patterns and thus heard as new frequencies in the output. It also
> makes
> sense that its better to have a small amount of white noise
> distortion
> over a small amount of periodic distortion. For this reason and the
> fact that it sounds like other software generally follows this
> practice,
> I think it should be the default in FluidSynth, provided the
> implementation is correct. Of note, is that when using Jack output,
> the
> dithering is not done by FluidSynth (but likely by Jack).
This makes me happy :) THis is exactly how I view the process. The last
stage of audio processing should be responsible for dithering if it is
needed at all...
ZF
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- Re: [fluid-dev] Purpose of dither?, (continued)
- Re: [fluid-dev] Purpose of dither?, Miguel Lobo, 2007/05/08
- Re: [fluid-dev] Purpose of dither?, Z F, 2007/05/08
- Re: [fluid-dev] Purpose of dither?, Mihail Zenkov, 2007/05/08
- Re: [fluid-dev] Purpose of dither?, Z F, 2007/05/08
- Re: [fluid-dev] Purpose of dither?, Mihail Zenkov, 2007/05/08
- Re: [fluid-dev] Purpose of dither?, Miguel Lobo, 2007/05/08
- Re: [fluid-dev] Purpose of dither?, Mihail Zenkov, 2007/05/09
- Re: [fluid-dev] Purpose of dither?, Z F, 2007/05/09
- Re: [fluid-dev] Purpose of dither?, Josh Green, 2007/05/09
- Re: [fluid-dev] Purpose of dither?,
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- Re: [fluid-dev] Purpose of dither?, Josh Green, 2007/05/09
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- Fwd: [fluid-dev] Purpose of dither?, Miguel Lobo, 2007/05/09
- Re: [fluid-dev] Purpose of dither?, Miguel Lobo, 2007/05/09
- Re: Fwd: [fluid-dev] Purpose of dither?, Z F, 2007/05/09
- Re: Fwd: [fluid-dev] Purpose of dither?, Mihail Zenkov, 2007/05/09
- Re: [fluid-dev] Purpose of dither?, Z F, 2007/05/09
- Re: [fluid-dev] Purpose of dither?, Z F, 2007/05/09
- Re: [fluid-dev] Purpose of dither?, Josh Green, 2007/05/09
- Re: [fluid-dev] Purpose of dither?, Mihail Zenkov, 2007/05/09
- Re: [fluid-dev] Purpose of dither?, Z F, 2007/05/09