Understanding sample rate

When talking about digital audio, another important term to understand is sample rate. …Sound is a continuous entity, or its a wave form shape, and when we capture …audio digitally, which is what we're doing when we record into a computer, …we're not really capturing every single moment of the sound. …What we're doing is taking a sample of the sound at a particular moment in time, …and then the next moment, and the next moment, and the next moment. …This is just the same as a video camera, which isn't really capturing all of the motion.…

Typically, it's going to capture maybe 24 or 30 frames per second. …A series of still images. And when those images are played in a sequence. …The experience, the illusion of movement. And so it is when you digitally record a sound. …The frames in this case, the pictures if you like, are called samples. …And the more samples you collect per second, the more accurately the sound …will be recorded, and of course played back. …The speed at which these samples are collected is called the sample rate.…