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An audio buffer is a block of digital audio samples held in memory between hardware and software, trading processing safety against latency.
Bit depth in digital audio is the number of bits used to store each sample, which sets the noise floor and the dynamic range of a…
A digital audio workstation (DAW) is software for recording, editing, mixing and producing digital audio and MIDI on a computer in one environment.
Dither in digital audio is low-level noise added before reducing bit depth so quantization error becomes benign noise instead of distortion.
The Nyquist frequency is half the sample rate of a digital audio system and marks the highest frequency it can represent without aliasing.
PCM, or pulse-code modulation, is the standard method of digital audio that samples a waveform at regular intervals and stores each sample as a number.
Sample rate is the number of times per second a digital audio system measures a signal, which sets the highest frequency it can represent.