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What is windowing in audio?
Windowing is most often used in spectral analysis, to view a short time segment of a longer signal and analyze its frequency content. Windows are also used to create short sound segments of a few milliseconds' duration called "grains", which can be combined into granular sound clouds for unique sorts of synthesis.
What are the effects of windowing in DSP?
You can minimize the effects of performing an FFT over a noninteger number of cycles by using a technique called windowing. Windowing reduces the amplitude of the discontinuities at the boundaries of each finite sequence acquired by the digitizer.
