HELM Audio Formats for Music, Sound Effects and Dialog

KEY

BENEFITS

• redbook: CD quality, up to 44khz 16bit stereo
• Surround/DVD: superior fidelity up to 96khz 24bit; 4 or 5.1 channels
• streamed digital audio: various selectable sample playback rates and bit depth
• midi:  extremely small footprint

CAPABILITIES

Redbook CDDA (compact disk digital audio)

high quality 44khz 16bit stereo, albeit expensive 10MB per min. resources

 

Multi-channel DVD-A (digital video disk audio)

best quality sample rate and bit depth, obviously data intensive (but DVD capacity several times that of typical CD)

Streamed Audio

streamed audio: various selectable sample playback rates and bit depth (Real Audio; Microsoft Media Format; MP3 and other solutions available)

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)

extremely small footprint, wireless cell-phone games, etc.