Digital Signal Processing
Digital Data is represented by electric pulses in a sequence that can further represent binary numbers. A binary number system allows one to combine the simple numbers into complex mathematical equations. Digital Signal Processing is about utilizing specialized digital electric circuits and specific programs for rapidly reducing those complex equations to simple equations and manipulating the data to create a new equation that will have an audible effect on the digital audio file.
DSP (Digital Signal Processing) is conducted by specific microprocessors wired to circuit boards within the computers. The DSP chip itself is either fixed function or can be multi-function, programmable. This requires algorithmic software written specifically for the DSP architecture. The design of the chip has migrated to 32-bit, fixed or floating point processing. The application of DSP processor/software is used in sample rate conversion, effects processing, filtering, audio mixing, and dynamic range processing.