diff --git a/docs/waveform_transforms/aliasing.md b/docs/waveform_transforms/aliasing.md index fb89bf4a..87c300d0 100644 --- a/docs/waveform_transforms/aliasing.md +++ b/docs/waveform_transforms/aliasing.md @@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ Downsample the audio to a lower sample rate by linear interpolation, without low filtering it first, resulting in aliasing artifacts. You get aliasing artifacts when there is high-frequency audio in the input audio that falls above the nyquist frequency of the chosen target sample rate. Audio with frequencies above the nyquist frequency -cannot be reproduced accurately and get "reflected"/mirrored to other frequencies. +cannot be reproduced accurately and get "reflected"/mirrored to other frequencies. The +aliasing artifacts "replace" the original high frequency signals. The result can be +described as coarse and metallic. After the downsampling, the signal gets upsampled to the original signal again, so the length of the output becomes the same as the length of the input. @@ -14,7 +16,7 @@ length of the output becomes the same as the length of the input. For more information, see * [Sample rate reduction :octicons-link-external-16:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcrusher#Sample_rate_reduction){target=_blank} on Wikipedia -* [Intro to downsampling :octicons-link-external-16:](http://gdsp.hf.ntnu.no/lessons/1/3/){target=_blank} by NTNU, Department of Music, Music Technology. Note: that article describes a slightly different downsampling technique, called sample-and-hold, while audiomentations implements linear interpolation. However, both methods lead to aliasing artifacts. +* [Intro to downsampling :octicons-link-external-16:](http://gdsp.hf.ntnu.no/lessons/1/3/){target=_blank} by NTNU, Department of Music, Music Technology. Note: that article describes a slightly different downsampling technique, called sample-and-hold, while `Aliasing` in audiomentations currently implements linear interpolation. However, both methods lead to aliasing artifacts. ## Input-output example