Clavia & aliasing (was Wave Wraper)

[Rob]

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Date: Sunday, June 27, 1999 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Clavia & aliasing (was Wave Wraper)


>Hi Rob,
>
>You wrote:
>
><< IOW, each voice becomes a division of the clock freq.. so, you get 1
voice
>at 96khz, 2 @ 48khz each etc..eventually, you get 32khz per voice because
of
>the way the mixing works, which is about right, because the sound quality
>degrades rapidly with the introduction of more voices.. >>
>
>Unless Clavia is handling polyphony very differently than the rest of the
>digital synth world, increasing polyphony does not effect sampling rate.
>Maybe you are confusing this with bit depth?  (where 24-bit processing is
>necessary in order to maintain 16-bit resolution when multiple voices are
>digitally mixed together)

Oh, no, I mean that i *think* the mixing is done by interleaving the
samples.. Im not sure of it, but due to the degradation of the sounds as the
number of voices increase, I suspect this..

Now, as far as the bit depth, i guess that could also account for the
degradation..

Rob