Jerry Avins <[email protected]> writes:

> AL wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm a university student studying Electronics Engineering and Bournemouth
> > University in England.
> >
> > For my final year project I need to understand how CD mixers work. I know
> > they alter the sample rate to change the speed (pitch) of the track being
> > output thus allowing the DJ to mix the tracks (getting the tempo's to
> > match).
> >
> > How is this done? Are there specific DSP processors to alter the sample
> > rate? Or can any standard audio DSP processor be programmed to
> > perform this
>
> > task?
> >
> > Any help/advice/website links greatly appreciated!
>
>
> AL,
>
> I got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. (Actually, I just
> finished helping someone with a Master's degree turn the paper he's
> trying to write into comprehensible English. That's worse.) The result
> is losing the restraint that would normally deter me from this question:
> how does someone who has reached the senior year in a university come to
> write "tempo's" when he means "tempos"?
>
> There's a very clever (but a bit over wordy) book by Lynne Truss (she's
> English too) called "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves" that you would do well to
> read. There's a panda story in it.

And when's the last time you saw someone struggling with "who/whom"? We
just don't even try any more.
--
Randy Yates
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications
Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
[email protected], 919-472-1124