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josephernest / SamplerBox

SamplerBox is a sampler musical instrument based on RaspberryPi.
https://www.samplerbox.org
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Question about audio quality with usb audio card #32

Closed brucedaniel closed 6 years ago

brucedaniel commented 6 years ago

In documentation and discussion it is made clear that one should not expect good audio quality without a sound card. This is obvious as soon as you try to play ~4-6 notes at once, you get the clicking static. With a sound card the clicking static happens, but it doesn't show up until you are repeating 8 note chords with sustain pedal. Is this as good as it gets?

josephernest commented 6 years ago

With a sound card the clicking static happens, but it doesn't show up until you are repeating 8 note chords with sustain pedal. Is this as good as it gets?

With a sound card / DAC, the polyphony can reach ~ 100 voices, and when more samples come, the oldest-played-ones vanish to play the new ones, but usually this is unnoticeable because 100 newer samples are playing...

So you can play chords with sustain pedal with a real 'piano sampler' user experience.

(Let's continue on http://www.samplerbox.org/forum, I close the issue here).