[sdiy] Sample&Hold thoughts

[Happy Harry]

If anyone says they want to use a BBD to slaughter audio
fidelity... Hey I'm with you ! You got the right tool for
the job....

H^) harry


>From: "danial stocks" <diode at hotmail.com>
>To: synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl
>Subject: Re: [sdiy] Sample&Hold thoughts
>Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 00:50:35
>
>
>>I'd like to hear the effect of using an audio source, like a drum
>>loop or a voice for example, as a "sample" source for the S&H. You
>>know, in place of where white noise or an LFO is usually used.
>>Now if you clocked the S&H at a high enough rate, anywhere between
>>4khz up to 48khz, or something, what you would hear at the output of
>>the S&H would be the audio source, drum loop or whatever, the only
>>difference would be that you could change the fidelity in real time
>>over an extremely wide range by changing the clock rate, right?
>>
>this has been done very very often.. its called a BBD [look out Harry.. :)]
>bbd is a string of sample and holds all clocked along together [in
>essence].. what happens if you clock fast.. ? if you clock real fast iee
>more than 2x the max audio freq, essentially nothing.. if you clock at a
>comparable rate to the audio rate you will get aliasing.. which in most
>commercial designs people go to great lengths to get rid of, but IMO, when
>intentionally introduced, is quite interesting..
>Cheers,
>Dan
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