Welcome back to our series on the journey from sound waves to software. We’ve already explored Sampling (how we capture time) and Quantization (how we capture amplitude). Now, it’s time for the final piece of the puzzle: Encoding.

In this article we continue the journey through the fundamentals of digital audio. This time - quantization

After reviewing the audio history and how sound is created, let’s start diving into digital system processing by first of all understanding how analog audio becomes digital from an engineering perspective. What path sound takes to be digitized and playbacked again?