insigma Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 (edited) Hi all,Just joined the forum in a hope that someone can help me out here. I seem to have bought a "Sampling Rate Converter" made by Pioneer about 10 years ago for the MiniDisc (or so it says on the top of the device), and i have no idea what it is for. Anyone know what I one would use a Pioneer FS-F21 Sampling Rate Converter for? I've had a dig around on google, but everything seems to be in Japanese. Thanks! Edited June 18, 2005 by insigma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexis Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 (edited) A sampling rate converter is for converting audio to a different sampling rate.The bit depth and sampling rate determines the dynamic range and frequency broadness of your sound. The higher these are the more the recorded audio will resemble to the original sound you record.Thus better quality.A cd for example is 16bit/44.1khz,most modern games are 48khz and in studio's sampling rates and bitrates of 32bit/96khz or higher aren't unusual.This is done to maintain overal better quality through the various stages of sound processing.I don't know the detail's on MD's though.Your sampling rate converter will let you convert the MD sampling rate to another sampling rate but these day's this can all be done by computer's and I don't really see why you would need it. Perhap's it was intended for some pre-broadcasting converting on radiostation's. Maybe someone else can tell you more but I think you will find very little use for it.Coverting to a higher sampling rate will not improve the quality of the sound you already recorded. A higher sampling rate will however improve the quality of any digital processing applied to it afterward's.The opposite is a little different. When applying digital processing to a high sample rate and then sampling or dithering down to a lower one it will sound better then when you applied the processing to it on the final low sampling rate in the first place. Edited June 18, 2005 by Flexis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 @insigma: The use is simple: First generation MD-recorders like the MZ-1 or the MDS-101 could only record with a sampling rate of 44.1kHz.If you wanted to record from digital radio or DAT, you needed a device like this one, as digital radio had a sampling rate of 32kHz and DAT had 32kHz(Longplay) and 48kHz.The same is true for early Audio-CD-recorders, they were 44.1kHz only. Most modern recorders do have a sampling rate converter built in, so an external converter is not necessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishiyoshi Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 Thread moved to "Technical Topics." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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