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> Without interpolation, my understanding is there's likely a TON of aliasing in the raw output… This is not correct, unfortunately. Aliasing is a time domain
by klodolph 5y ago
> Without interpolation, my understanding is there's likely a TON of aliasing in the raw output…
This is not correct, unfortunately. Aliasing is a time domain artifact, affected by the sample rate. The limited table size instead causes distortion, which affects the values.
If you ever run a bitcrusher plugin, you’ll see two sliders—one for bit depth, one for sample rate. Aliasing is affected by the sample rate. This is kind of like the other slider—the distortion slider in a bitcrusher plugin. Although it is like having not one bitcrusher, but many bitcrushers, reducing every signal inside the synthesizer to about 12 bits. Kind of. The distorted signal is evaluated at some sample rate, which also introduces aliasing (in addition to the distortion).
These effects are musically quite distinct. Aliasing is not generally harmonic, distortion generally can be (if you arrange it to be so).