About samples and harmonics...

[Gimle / sYmptom , Toni Aittoniemi]

> I've got a question that has been puzzling my mind for quite a while
> now: If you transpose a sampled waveform up or down, do weird things
> happen with the harmonics or not ?

There are quantizing noise peaks in every quantized signal.. These do
downgrade the sound quality when transposed much.

> from just one sample. Is it because the harmonics of the original
> instrument (i.e. the violin) are different from octave to octave ?

This is mostly the cause.

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