Randy Yates wrote:

> 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.

Whom says? ;^)

Jerry
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