Digital Audio
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Moscow State University the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics
Digital Audio
Student: Rodionov Pavel
Group: 111
Contents
Introduction 3
1 Overview of digital audio 3
2 Subjective evaluation 5
3 History of digital audio use in commercial recording 5
4 Digital audio workstation 5
Conclusion 6
Abbreviations 7
References 7
Introduction
Digital audio has emerged because of its usefulness in the recording, manipulation, mass-production, and distribution of sound. Modern distribution of music across the internet through on-line stores depends on digital recording and digital compression algorithms. Distribution of audio as data files rather than as physical objects has significantly reduced costs of distribution.
From the wax cylinder to the compact cassette, analogue audio music storage and reproduction have been based on the same principles upon which human hearing are based. In an analogue audio system, sounds begin as physical waveforms in the air, are transformed into an electrical representation of the waveform, via a transducer (for example, a microphone), and are stored or transmitted. To be re-created into sound, the process is reversed, through amplification and then conversion back into physical waveforms via a loudspeaker. Although its nature may change, its fundamental wave-like characteristics remain unchanged during its storage, transformation, duplication, and amplification. All analogue audio signals are susceptible to noise and distortion, due to the inherent noise present in electronic circuits. In other words, all distortion and noise in a digital signal are added at capture or processing, and no more is added in repeated copies, unless the entire signal is lost, while analog systems degrade at each step, with each copy, and in some media, with time, temperature, and magnetic or chemical issues.
Digital audio is the method of representing audio in digital form.
An analog signal is...
Digital Audio
Student: Rodionov Pavel
Group: 111
Contents
Introduction 3
1 Overview of digital audio 3
2 Subjective evaluation 5
3 History of digital audio use in commercial recording 5
4 Digital audio workstation 5
Conclusion 6
Abbreviations 7
References 7
Introduction
Digital audio has emerged because of its usefulness in the recording, manipulation, mass-production, and distribution of sound. Modern distribution of music across the internet through on-line stores depends on digital recording and digital compression algorithms. Distribution of audio as data files rather than as physical objects has significantly reduced costs of distribution.
From the wax cylinder to the compact cassette, analogue audio music storage and reproduction have been based on the same principles upon which human hearing are based. In an analogue audio system, sounds begin as physical waveforms in the air, are transformed into an electrical representation of the waveform, via a transducer (for example, a microphone), and are stored or transmitted. To be re-created into sound, the process is reversed, through amplification and then conversion back into physical waveforms via a loudspeaker. Although its nature may change, its fundamental wave-like characteristics remain unchanged during its storage, transformation, duplication, and amplification. All analogue audio signals are susceptible to noise and distortion, due to the inherent noise present in electronic circuits. In other words, all distortion and noise in a digital signal are added at capture or processing, and no more is added in repeated copies, unless the entire signal is lost, while analog systems degrade at each step, with each copy, and in some media, with time, temperature, and magnetic or chemical issues.
Digital audio is the method of representing audio in digital form.
An analog signal is...