whats PCM?

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...bringing sexy back
Member Since: Jul 01, 2002

im bidding on a yamaha drum machine on ebay and its got 'PCM TONE GENERATOR' on it..whats that?

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Bane of All Existence
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Since: Mar 27, 2003


Jun 29, 2003 06:04 pm

my guess is that it will create sine, square, triangle, saw waves.

...bringing sexy back
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Since: Jul 01, 2002


Jun 29, 2003 06:14 pm

ahh...that could be it!

we'll see if i get it!

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Since: Dec 30, 2002


Jun 29, 2003 06:36 pm

PCM stands for Pulse Code Modulation, and is simply a digital waveform. Nearly all the wav files you deal with on your computer have PCM encoding.

This basically means that the drum machine has sampled sounds in it that will be used for playback :)

jues.

...bringing sexy back
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Since: Jul 01, 2002


Jun 29, 2003 06:58 pm

oh, cool!

cheers dude

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