[sdiy] Digital ADSR - perceivable staircase?

[Ian Fritz]

At 11:12 PM 2/14/2011, Matthew Smith wrote:
>If we consider a digitally-generated attack signal as a staircase, at what 
>'width' of step - in other words the time between increments in level - 
>would the increase in volume of the system output become noticeable?
>
>So as to have something to go on, I am considering a maximum A/D/R time of 
>2 seconds so, at maximum time, a 'step' would be about 8ms long, based on 
>256 levels x 256 steps.
>
>Really wondering what my maximum time can be before the 256 steps become 
>obvious.


Hmmm ... Wouldn't it actually be more noticable at shorter times. (The old 
zipper noise problem.)

Ian