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How Does Sound Work? an Overview of Sound (on a Computer)

Overview Sound is nothing but pressure waves traveling through the air, and hitting your ear -- which your brain decodes as sound (from noise or music). In space (a vacuum) no one can hear you scream because there is no medium (matter) to transmit the vibrations/pressure.What computers (and CD's, telephones, record players, etc.) do, is capture those pressure waves.They use a microphone to convert pressure (sound waves) to electrical current, then sample that current level many times a second. This is called sampling.

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Publisher	MacKiDo	File Format	HTML
Date Published	June 1999	Downloads	37
Format	White Papers
Topics	Sound Components, MP3 / Digital Formats, Music Media

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