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Re: playing music from GS games

Alex Lee wrote:

On 2005-04-08 03:03:48 +1000, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> said:


Alex Lee wrote:


Nice to see something game related go down on c.s.a2! :-)
I've been wanting to include IIgs game soundtracks on the Fairway, but for the time involved in doing so using a real IIgs, it's just...too time consuming.
When (and if) Henrik and Andre finish Sweet 16/Bernie for OS X with all the sound options Bernie 3.0 had, well, I'll be firing up WireTap and recording all that music, without IIgs noise, at resampled 44Khz, etc, and spitting out MP3s. It'll also be a LOT quicker opening each game through emulation. 


There is no advantage to upsampling a signal--no information is added,
and the resulting file is much larger.
No, Bernie ][ the Rescue attempts to "fill in the gaps" of 11Khz and 22Khz samples by reproducing IIg sound output at 44Khz. How it does this, exactly, I don't know. Perhaps it only works with Ensoniq synthesised sound? 

I understand--but it is still the case that there is no reason to do
so for recordings.  Perhaps there is some reason to prefer the higher
sampling rate to play sounds on the Mac, but just upsampling provides
no additional quality and does cost space in any recording format.

The best possible way to capture the sound would be to capture the
8-bit digital sound at its native sample rate.  This would also be
the most compact format for recordings.

-michael

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