On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Chris McCormick <chr...@mccormick.cx> wrote:

I have come to the conclusion that all audio is discrete. probably everything measureable in the universe is discrete for that matter. There is no such thing as continuous only in our experience when we can not discern the difference between a change from one value to the next do we think of something being continuous. Imagine if you will a tuning peg with notches fitted in a notched hole. Now imagine a whammy bar fixed with the smoothest bearings and axle known. Now imagine the atomic structure of the axle and bearing. Isn't the whammy bar going to stop at little steps at the flat spots where any 2 atoms of the bearings line up with any 2 atoms of the axle? Would this not be discrete. Only our perception of sound hears the whammy bar as being continuous. If we had a fast enough sample rate we could slow down the recording of the use of such a whammy bar and see that it is indeed discrete.