Desktop Audio Technology

Index

3–1 stereo format (4-channel surround), 242–4

3–2 stereo format (5.1 channel surround), 244–6

7.1 channel surround format, 247–8

A/D (analog-to-digital) conversion/converters:

about A/D converters, 6, 13

aliasing, 15, 17

clipping problems, 21

decimation, 29–30

filtering, 17–18

noise shaping, 30–2

Nyquist frequency, 16–17, 31

oversampling, 18, 29–30

and pulse code modulation (PCM), 18

quantisation, 11–12, 18–21

quantising error, 11–12, 18, 21–2

resolution versus quality, 21–2

and S/N considerations, 22

sampling, 11, 13–16

sampling rate, 12

sigma-delta convertor, 31–2

see also D/A (digital-to-analog) conversion/converters; Dither

AAF (Advanced Authoring Format), 180, 184–5

ADAT Optical (Alesis digital interface), 195–6

ADL (Audio Decision ...