12019-04-17T00:41:36-07:00Nikita Guedj26e5e59f5c86b075d03e3719dbc6b89b70271c8f335201plain2019-04-17T00:41:36-07:00Nikita Guedj26e5e59f5c86b075d03e3719dbc6b89b70271c8fAnalog to Digital Conversion (ADC), the process by which an analog wave form (e.g. electrical wave, a sound wave in the real world, etc.) is transformed into a discrete set of 1's and 0's that the computer can understand. But information is necessarily lost in the process, so digital audio will always be at best an approximation of sound waves in the real world. This is a process that happens any time music information is sent to and processed by a computer.