Desktop Audio Technology

Contents

Series introduction

1  Introduction to desktop audio technology

1.1   About this book

1.2   Audio workstations

1.3   Audio and the computer industry

1.4   Audio and quality

2  Digital audio principles

2.1   Analog and digital information

2.2   Binary number systems

2.2.1    Basic binary

2.2.2    Negative numbers

2.2.3    Fixed- and floating-point representation

2.2.4    Logical operations

2.3   Basic A/D and D/A conversion of control information

2.4   A/D conversion of audio signals

2.4.1    Audio sampling

2.4.2    Filtering and aliasing

2.4.3    Quantisation

2.4.4    Relationship between sample resolution and sound quality

2.4.5    Use of dither

2.4.6    Types of dither

2.4.7    Oversampling in A/D conversion

2.4.8    Noise shaping ...