Configuration

SampleToNES converts audio with one set of settings, the generation configuration. It covers the sample rate, the NES frequency, how the audio is analyzed and how sounds are compared. You change the everyday ones on the Main tab. The configuration file has the rest.

Three cards on the Main tab have the everyday settings:

• General settings: the Sample rate and NES frequency a library is built for, Normalize audio, which evens out the loudness of the recording before it is matched, and Quantize audio, which coarsens it to fewer volume steps first.
• Source settings: the channel settings of the recording you selected. See settings for one recording.
• Advanced settings: Method and Feature scaling, which set how the app measures the frequencies in the audio, the number of Workers, and the library and output folders. Choose View ▸ Show advanced settings to show this card. Reconstruction algorithms explains Method and Feature scaling.

The app saves your changes to config.json. See Where your files live.

config.json holds the rest. The configuration file reference lists every setting, and reconstruction algorithms explains what each one does and the value it starts at.

To load or save a whole configuration, use Reconstruction ▸ Load generation settings... and Reconstruction ▸ Save generation settings.... On the command line, add --config to a command.