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How do computers store sound waves just by sampling the amplitude of a wave and not the frequency?
All of this just doesn’t make sense though.
I mean, doesn’t the amplitude represent the loudness and the frequency the pitch? Aren’t they completely independent from each other?
Is the book just ...
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What do I hear when listening to a computer-generated sine wave?
When I use a sine-wave generator (such as this one), I give credit to the software and my hardware that a pure sine wave is produced (as close as is technologically possible) — that is, no harmonics. ...