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Re: Ever wanted to listen to your favorite Amiga tune in HD?
« on: March 18, 2012, 09:36:51 PM »
So, uh, what is meant by "remastered" here? Is it an actual different arrangement and recording of the songs? Because I don't see how you could remaster an 8-bit 28KHz soundtrack to be anything other than an 8-bit 28KHz soundtrack...
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Re: Ever wanted to listen to your favorite Amiga tune in HD?
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2012, 12:48:30 AM »
Quote from: Bif;684351
You could take the .MOD and run it through a higher quality renderer. The biggest improvement would be using high quality resampling, as the resampler in Paula is very low quality. This should improve all pitch shifting or pitch related effects. You could also render to 48 kHz, which might improve things a little bit for those samples that are getting pitched shifted up enough. You would also render to 16 bit, but that wouldn't actually give an improvement over what you would be hearing out of an Amiga, it would just make sure it's as good as the Amiga.
I don't believe Paula even does any interpolation "resampling" - I think it just switches from one sample value to the next. TBH, that's how I prefer it (I've never found interpolation to be an improvement, at least not on OCS Amiga-era MODs,) and decent replayers (and Amiga hardware) have a low-pass filter to cut down on the aliasing noise generated thereby.

In any case, if I'm being asked to pay for effects I can get from Winamp, I'd have a few choice words to say about that...
Computers: Amiga 1200, DEC VAXStation 4000/60, DEC MicroPDP-11/73
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