Chapter 3, notes... - Posted on 2017-06-26 by Justin Anderson

- The Nyquist Theorem states that the highest frequency able to be sampled is half the sample rate. 

- In 1976 the Fairlight CMI was realeaded. It was the first Polyphonic Digital Sampler. 

- Lossy file compression works by sampling the original file and removing frequency ranges that average listeners can't hear. 

- At 16 bit, one minute of audio takes up approximately 10 MB of space. 

- MP3 remains the most popular audio format today. 

- An audio CD that holds 700 MB of information, can hold about 70 minutes of audio. 

- Recording 24 tracks simultaneously at 32 but/ 192k will use about 1 GB a minute.