Almost all hearing aids used today are digital; sound goes into a microphone and is digitally processed by a chip, amplified, then sent to the ear.
In synthetic speech generation, digitally prestored sound elements are converted to analog sound signals and combined to form words and sentences.
The debate centred on the aesthetic issue of whether digitally reproduced sound demonstrated the same "tonal warmth" as sound recorded using an analog signal.
Roughly half of the movies released last year utilized digital visuals of some sort, while 90% used digitally recorded sound.
Contemporary musicians have heard so much digitally manipulated sound that live music may not be the primary influence, even for an entirely live band.
It presents a fantasy world -- Michael Bay's vision of what it would have been like to be there, with privileged angles and digitally enhanced sound.
It's not a digitally dead sound.
Under the direction of Sahir Daud, the video features Stanford and other musicians flooding a darkened studio with digitally enhanced sound waves, bewitching all movable matter in its wake.
Five years later, Navarre returned with his follow-up, Tourist on Blue Note Records, an equally stunning album that held on to the grooving meditation of his previous work, while extending his production passport to include even more of an international flair, as well as a collection of guest artists that help blur the lines between live and digitally produced sound.
Humanity has invented countless instruments to produce many sounds, and, most recently, digitally synthesized sounds that would be difficult or impractical to generate with a physical instrument.
