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Re: [korgpolyex] Random sample and hold - please explain

2010-01-04 by ASSI

On Monday 04 January 2010, Michael Hawkins wrote:
> An alias that was the result of an infinitely low sampling rate
>  would "resemble" noise.
> 
> No?

No.  It would resemble DC.  :-)

If you're curious why this happens, the "natural" reconstructed signal 
in this case lies between DC and the sampling frequency, which is 
infinitesimally close to DC.  You could reconstruct the signal alias 
in any of the image bands as well, but then it would again be a 
perfect sine since the bandwidth of the reconstruction filter has to 
be infinitesimally small.

There have been several attempts at creating "true random" signals by 
sampling from an ensemble of oscillators.  None of them work 
particularly well unless they're followed up by considerable digital 
processing.


Achim.
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