1-Bit Recording

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2009/02/20 10:07:40 (permalink)

1-Bit Recording

Hello, this is my first post on this subforum... I've participated in the Song Forum sporadically for quite a while...

I just ran across an explanation of 1-bit recording, and was wondering what other Sonar Users thought of this technology...

Here's a link to that article which is actually a Korg product add, but which I found interesting... (I've never used any Korg product)
http://www.acousticfingerstyle.com/1_Bit%20Recording.htm
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    Fog
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    RE: 1-Bit Recording 2009/02/20 10:13:15 (permalink)
    calling it 1 bit is confusing.. I mean , on the c64 you the sample rate is 4 bit.. older samplers are 12 bit etc.

    you'd think who ever came up with the name would have thought about it
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    RE: 1-Bit Recording 2009/02/20 10:42:53 (permalink)
    Well, I would imagine Bob Katz and Korg have thought about it quite a bit... (sorry, pun intended)
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    RE: 1-Bit Recording 2009/02/20 10:58:15 (permalink)
    From the article: "Most high-quality 24-bit A/D converters start out with a high-speed, 1-bit data stream to begin with."

    That is just not true anymore. 1 bit converters are a generation behind. For the past 10 years or so, most high-quality converters are multi-bit (2 or more) high-samplerate delta-sigma converters.

    The other thing that article glosses over is that you can't really do much DSP (stuff like fades, eq, that sort of thing) on the 1 bit signal unless you convert it to a format with more bits. And when you do that, you've just done what the 24 bit converters do anyway.

    Most of what is said about 1 bit recording is hype. It takes a lot of digging to get at what's really going on.

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