October 11, 2004
The Ghost in the Machine Speaks?
Or sings? Or makes noise? Or plays an instrument?
Last night, I was hanging out with Roddy and we got into this conversation about sound replication on computers. Because I'm not really understanding the topic, I figured I'd ask people a couple of questions that came up.
1) What exactly is going on when a sound/music simulating program simulates sound? As you can tell the difference between different instruments by the sounds they make, different programs also sound different. Why is that? Is it a function of the programming itself? And if so, why do they simulate sound differently?
2) Is it possible for a given sine wave function can produce different sounds on the same computer program? Is it possible in reality?
Any direction would be much appreciated. I'm also checking with vaunted Google and the university library.
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