- indeed, sampling is always at 16bit, when you switch to “classic” resampler then the last 4 bit are ignored on PLAYBACK - but they are still present in the sample file
- thus you can “clean up” a classic sample by upping the bits to 16
- the classic sound is neither mainly due to bit depth or sampling frequency but mostly due to the very bad pitch shift algorithm of the SP12/1200. then you have the reduced bit depth, the low sample rate, the bad antialiasing filters before the ADC and the bad reconstruction filters after the DAC that all together make the other part of the classic sound
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