From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 27 15:47:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F81B16A4CE for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:47:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6176343D2F for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:47:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:47:41 -0600 Message-ID: <403FD708.4070103@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:47:20 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Pressey References: <403F7351.1000601@sympatico.ca> <44ishst90t.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <403F8B90.3050907@sympatico.ca> <20040227154115.4a564282.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <20040227154115.4a564282.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Feb 2004 23:47:42.0015 (UTC) FILETIME=[1707ECF0:01C3FD8C] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Philippe Vachon Subject: Re: SoundBlaster 16 PnP ISA Card on 5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 23:47:24 -0000 Chris Pressey wrote: >On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:25:20 -0500 >Philippe Vachon wrote: > > > >>As I said before, the sound is compressed -- not in the data sense, >>but rather in the analogue sense where the wavelength of a waveform >>decreases, as does the period. I appologize if I had confused you, but >>I'm not a Software Engineer -- merely a lowly Electrical Engineering >>Student. :) >> >> > >Off topic, but in hopes of clearing up the terminology at least, this is >what "compressed" means for audio engineers: > > http://www.flashbacksales.co.uk/articles/compression.htm > >I doubt you're experiencing this... I think you mean your audio is >simply sped up? > > At the risk of going far enough OT to be banned, there are two types of audio compression. One is amplitude adjustment, as it were, and another is "time compression" (yes, check out some multitracking software), so it's possible to use the term in the sense he's using it, but it's a tad, what, {arcane} unless you're producing hip-hop records.... Maybe we should recommend getting a slower processor? :D :D KDK