KVR Audio

omissis · Post by **omissis** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 8:28 am

Hi all
I was looking for a vsti which could allow me an 8bit input sampling and a non aliased output at least ( which happens when converting from 8 to 16bits etc.)
Anyone does know something?
Max

realmarco · Post by **realmarco** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 4:29 am

what ?

C00kie · Post by **C00kie** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 8:02 am

You don't need a plugin, 'cause this (8->16 bits)would normally be dealt with in an audio editor. And most sample players can handle it quite reasonable (as far as possible)

Not that it would really help: you can never get back the info that's gone in the 8bits sample. You'd need to apply some low-pass filtering, which would make the aliasing less but the over-all sound worse. A lost case imho...

omissis · Post by **omissis** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:20 am

Thx for your comments
Maybe I explained wrongly my thought. Non-aliased output: I mean, if a sampler has a 16/24 bits output and it's playing an 8 bit sample it normally would convert it to the higher bitrate and this would result into aliased sound,is it? a lpf won't help me so much...so what?

Kim Lajoie · Post by **Kim Lajoie** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 12:59 pm

I don't think 24 bit -> 8 bit causes aliasing.

Forever,

Kim.

C00kie · Post by **C00kie** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 5:54 pm

8 -> 24 bits you mean... Still, no aliasing indeed! You just hear a crap sample bitdepth, and it manifests itself at the high frequencies.

Rellik · Post by **Rellik** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 6:30 pm

Yes, it's impossible for any aliasing to be introduced in bitdepth conversions. It's just not a side-effect of the process - aliasing is a frequency overflow, and more bits won't affect the frequency in any way - unless imaging can alias, which I haven't heard of.

fliffo · Post by **fliffo** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:05 pm

aliasing is in relationship with low/high samplerate not with low/high bitdepth.

8bit input/output-able vsti ?