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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 9th Feb 2011 07:23
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So im wondering, what would sound on computers sound like if there was no binary to analog converter? Is there some software that could simulate this?? Thanks for your answers

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Posted: 9th Feb 2011 08:26
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It wouldn't sound like anything as you'd need to have to convert it into analogue to be able to drive the speaker.


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Posted: 9th Feb 2011 08:50 Edited at: 9th Feb 2011 08:55
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The binary data for the sound is usually 32-bit, so try connecting 33 wires to a speaker (32 for data, 1 for GND)

Unless of course he means to listen to this:



Instead of this:



[EDIT] Why can't Bill Gates' FABULOUS Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 copy links to images?

Then you'd hear a distorted form of the sound.

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Posted: 9th Feb 2011 09:06
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lol.. 33pin connector, would be huge.

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Sure you'd be able to make it sound like something! Ever heard of a square wave? It's not pretty but it works! You just flip an output pin between high and low rull rull fast.
like this:


Of course, you can't make sound with "true" or "false", but you can with a tiny speaker and +5v/-5v

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Posted: 9th Feb 2011 18:51
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Quote: "The binary data for the sound is usually 32-bit"

Sorry that's not true, most sound is 16-bit. I can't think of anything where 32-bit sound is used, 24-bit is standard in studios.


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Posted: 9th Feb 2011 19:17 Edited at: 9th Feb 2011 19:17
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Actually, it is semi-true Most sound has 2 channels, for left and right, and so the total size of a sample is usually 32-bit.

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Posted: 9th Feb 2011 19:42
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But two 16-bit channels doesn't give you a range of a single 32-bit channel - in audio it's all about the range, so even if it was 16-bit stereo, you'd still class it as 16-bit because that's what your dynamic range is.


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Posted: 9th Feb 2011 23:30
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Interesting, i meant if the individual one's and zero's were channeled into the speaker. Like if a value was say 79 you would hear the sound equivalent to if a 1001111, kinda like NeuroFuzzy said with the square wave. One would be a high, zero would be a low. In other words if the binary signals were sent to the speaker without the binary to analog converter. Thanks for all the answers though

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Quote: "Interesting, i meant if the individual one's and zero's were channeled into the speaker. Like if a value was say 79 you would hear the sound equivalent to if a 1001111, kinda like NeuroFuzzy said with the square wave. One would be a high, zero would be a low. In other words if the binary signals were sent to the speaker without the binary to analog converter. Thanks for all the answers though
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It would likely sound like static.

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Posted: 10th Feb 2011 02:56
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I figured. I dont suppose there is any software to simulate this, is there?

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Posted: 10th Feb 2011 03:51 Edited at: 10th Feb 2011 03:55
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Hello

A lot of people here may not remember this. In the olden days of home coding, we used cassette-tapes to save and load data.

If you left the speaker on, the data went through cycles something like
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beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep wughwahwughwaghughwaghuwaghwauughhuaghwa beep
"

and continued like that until all data had been loaded. It might sound a bit like that.

Some people refer to this audio phenomenon as "Minimal Techno".
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Posted: 10th Feb 2011 04:34
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That is interesting i must say

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